Job description

Key Responsibilities - Take responsibility for managing the execution and timely delivery of engagements from start to finish.  - Manage the entire Project Management Life Cycle, including resources, budgets, and project schedules. - Be held accountable for developing a consolidated view of the project deliverables, milestones, roadmaps, and iterations/sprints/schedules to meet on-time deliveries within the scope and budget, ensuring visibility and the highest client satisfaction. - Communicate effectively, including providing direction and feedback to relevant stakeholders, managing expectations and conflicts or obstacles, and addressing unexpected difficulties. - Identify, track, and resolve project risks, issues, and dependencies using best-practice problem-solving techniques. - Define and employ effective escalation paths and communicate with relevant stakeholders in a timely manner. - Lead and facilitate meetings with project stakeholders from all levels, including business relationship meetings and technical team meetings to determine progress and facilitate resolution to questions or challenges. - Leverage traditional project management and Agile practices to deliver projects, including backlog/requirements refinement, sprints/iteration planning and execution, clarifying a definition-of-done, team communication, progress visualization, retrospectives, and demos. - Track and provide weekly budget and status reporting for project engagements. - Manage multiple projects concurrently at various levels of maturity. Skills & Experience - Strong verbal/oral/written communication skills. - Ability to clearly understand the overall vision, scale, scope, expected outcomes, business impact, and milestones of their engagements. - Proven project leadership skills, ability to quickly organize teams towards a project goal with little to no supervision. - Proficiency with tools including Azure DevOps, Jira, and GitHub. - Ability to deal with ambiguity and change by applying proven project management skills. - Ability to build trust and create relationships with internal teams and with external stakeholders through interpersonal skills like mentoring and coaching. - Proficient in the technical skills of an Agile Project Manager, including strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with a focus on details. - 10+ years’ experience working as a full-lifecycle project manager using modern Agile Project Management methodologies. - 5+ years’ experience leading Scrum events and backlog refinement sessions. - 8+ years of hands-on experience managing business or technical project budgets, risks, and issues. - 5+ years of experience leading and managing projects within consulting (professional and managed services projects) - Experience in leading cloud transformation projects using Azure or AWS (Datacenter Migration, Azure DevOps, App Modernization, etc.)

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