Description
Description- Managing project delivery for mid to large and complex Enterprise projects with cross functional project teams that may be comprised of several departments, have high visibility, aggressive schedules, and require negotiation skills to balance the needs of project stakeholders.
- Projects may be technical in nature and have implications and impacts associated with the enterprise wide systems/system applications, network, and telecommunication/product devices.
- Projects may be multi-tiered comprising several smaller projects that span multiple years; larger budget & business impacts
- This position will manage work utilizing standard project management methodologies, processes/procedures projects have clear start/end dates; specific manpower resource allocations; budgets and are clearly identified as a 'project' by the business.
- Is accountable for and drives project status reporting and meetings as communication and management tools.
- Effectively uses communications to ensure project health, transparency to risk and to maintain a strong project team sense of respect and trust.
- Identifies potential risks across a broad number of individual projects within a program and establishes communications and mitigations to address them.
- Communicates risks in clear business terms and technical terms and provides clear messaging and solution options at a senior leadership and executive level in both planned and ad hoc scenarios.
- Drives the program strategy and aligns it with the program business goals.
- Defines and establishes the overall program structure, including the definition and scope of all sub-projects, program support activities, and organizational structure.
- Establishes the tools and processes to track and report on the program health and progress towards program goals.
- Adjusts resources and organizational structure as the focus and goals of the program change to ensure efficient delivery of results.
- Defines scope of Programs. Incorporates strategic factors into Program/Project Scope and recommendations.
- Influences and manages the factors that create change and scope creep.
- Can manage and help others to understand the implications of change including legitimate scope shift and impact.
- Sets stakeholder and program team expectations and ensures that the deliverables are aligned with program business goals.
- Establishes the program KPI measurements and quality control points and aligns reporting to track progress against the measurements.
- Proactively anticipates and mitigates issues through validation.
- Develops a formal program change board that assesses and approves/denies all changes to scope, schedule, and quality.
Skills Required
- 5 - 8 years formal project management work experience
- Must be proficient and have experience using MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and MS Project and Visio
- Solid understanding of PMI principles and practices and how to put them into practice; demonstrated ability to apply PMI principals required
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; effectively communicates with all employee levels and levels of management.
- Proven experience with identifying and resolving project impacting issues, works with members of the Project Management team and business SMEs/executives to develop and implement viable solutions.
- Awareness of general accounting practices, related to project management - including budgeting, invoicing, purchase orders, and accounts payable.
- Must typically have a background in the project business area assigned, in order to successfully serve as a conduit between the technical functions and the business clients.
- Experience with SharePoint preferred
- Project Management certification: (lacking project management certification, candidates must possess a minimum of 10-12+ years PM experience)
- Experience in security or network architecture/engineering role including designing and deploying security solutions
- Global capability delivery experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication capability with a customer focus
- Success in collaborating with customers, partners, and co-workers across cultural boundaries
- Able to identify, address or escalate potential dependencies and issues
- Manage the effort within deferred and expense budget constraints (if project lead)
- Effectively manage ambiguity, change and conflict
- Effectively prioritize in high pressure situations
- Strong project leadership and support skills
- Demonstrated track record of success in delivering in a security environment
- Proven experience in navigating complex organizations with creative problem solving
- At ease in establishing senior-level working relationships and communications
- Ability to deliver a clear yet compelling and realistic business case
- Ability to present publicly as a thought leader
- Ability to translate complex technical topics into easy to understand concepts
- Strong analytical skills and cross functional knowledge across multiple security disciplines
- Strong working experience with databases and data warehouse technologies and solutions
- Prior experience in managing or being a part of a Vulnerability and or Remediation Management team
- Proven Experience with PCI-DSS, SOX, GLBA and other compliance regulations and their implementation as well as controls to remediate findings related to these regulations
- Strong technical skills and hands on experience assessing threats to multiple operating system platforms, database and application Servers, and custom and off the shelf applications, etc.
- Knowledge and experience with diverse IT architectures and enterprise IT data centers, large scale transaction processing environments, external hosted services and cloud computing environments
- Can effectively communicate