Sr. IT Project Manager

Sr. IT Project Manager

Position Summary:

The Sr. Project Manager responsibilities include managing a portfolio of projects, defining project scope, aligning cross-functional resources, tracking metrics and RAID logs, ensuring regulatory compliance, and resolving technical or operational delivery hurdles.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Presentation: Present business plan to C level executives
• Planning: Lead planning activities for large programs with business stakeholders, product teams, integration architects and data architects
• Project Execution: Lead high-priority tech projects via enterprise framework guidelines.

• Resource Management: Assemble and balance the right blend of cross-functional team resources.

• Governance & Compliance: Enforce quality accuracy and adherence to regulations and internal controls.

• Tracking & Reporting: Present status reports, metrics, and RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) logs to business partners.

• Risk & Change Control: Manage project scope alterations and formulate schedule contingency plans

Qualifications and Competencies Required To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Methodologies: Strong proficiency in Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall frameworks using enterprise tracking tools like Jira
• Certifications: PMP (Project Management Professional) or Scrum Master certifications are strongly preferred.

Required Experience:

• 5 to 10 years working in technology leadership, project management, or agile delivery roles

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or technical field is required

Skills Required:

• Domain Knowledge: Previous working experience in financial services, auto, or auto finance environments is a plus.
• Experience with I.T. Architecture design is a plus.
• Systems: Previous experience with a large scale project integrating multiple systems is a plus 

• Overtime required – required on an as needed basis.
• Travel 0-10% - as required on an as needed basis.
• Must have reliable transportation and live within a commutable distance to: Dallas, TX

Qualifications Preferred:

MBA or Master’s degree in a related technical field is preferred