Senior Project Manager

Nuvitek is a systems integrator and technology service provider focused on improving customer performance through technological innovation. As a Senior Project Manager, you will oversee project planning and execution, ensuring timely completion within budget while fostering positive relationships with clients and driving team engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Actively build positive, collaborative relationships with the client to understand the client's business priorities and bring assets and expertise aligned with the priorities
• Provides servant leadership to the project team. Promote empowerment of the team, ensuring each team member is fully engaged, making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high-level quality
• Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint demos, retrospectives, sprint planning, and backlog grooming meetings
• Work with our Director of Programs to facilitate project documentation and project deliverables
• Act as agile coach adapting teams to agile/scrum methodology using techniques that increase collaboration, predictability, transparency and promote a culture of experimentation and innovation. Use agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver large-scale initiatives, features, and stories in an iterative fashion
• Monitor and manage team goals and performance and ensure the team understands how they align and relate to broader business goals and strategies
• Deep-dive existing and potential problem areas, develop and communicate corrective action and mitigation plans, and drive follow-through to a successful resolution. Be hands-on when needed to help your team solve problems and get through crunch periods
• Establish and manage product roadmap. Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques
• Responsible for overall contract and project cost management. Ensure project remains in scope and within budget through active project budget tracking and burn-down tracking. Work closely with corporate operations and the customer to ensure total expenditures are tracked and costs are managed and communicated through proper change management

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or a related field
• 5-8 years of project management
• Experience as a federal contractor or employee, specifically with DHS
• Experience with low-code/no-code platforms such as Appian, Salesforce, and ServiceNow
• Capacity to embrace change and quickly adapt to new situations, changes in direction, and altering priorities
• Ability to clarify the process, brainstorm solutions, and assist in conflict resolution
• Experience using agile performance metrics to drive accountability and continuous improvement
• Experience adapting newly formed teams to scrum and leading their journey through the stages of storming, forming, and norming
• Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other scrum techniques
• A love to learn and improve as a servant leader, always looking to bring something new and helpful to the team. Embodies the agile principles and leads by example
• Strong knowledge of Scrum theory and agile practices
• PMP certification/PRINCE2 certification (or other certifications acknowledged by organizations such as PMI or APM)
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Excel, Power Point
• Relevant agile certifications preferred, such as: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)