Senior Project Manager

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Managing professional delivery throughout the project lifecycle, including project plans, release plans, resource allocation, and status reports
• Defining project scope, determining action items, assigning ownership, creating project timetables, and tracking execution and workflow.
• Management of project risks, scope, budget, resources, and schedule
• Proactively coordinating and communicating with internal and external stakeholders, business partners and contractors to successfully execute projects in a timely manner.
• Track and communicate project progress from a schedule, cost, and risk perspective to the project team, stakeholders, and management.
• Coordinate requirements gathering, design sessions, training, go-live events, and other meetings with both internal and external stakeholders
• Coordinate Agile Ceremonies with the engineering team including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, demos, story refinement, and release planning.
• Track and report team velocity and other project metrics to management.
• Perform financial/budgeting activities and support variance root cause analysis
• Provide the necessary support for meeting customer SLAs

• Excellent verbal and written business communication skills
• Highly Proficient with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint)
• Highly Proficient with MS Project
• Proficiency with Atlassian Project Management tools including Jira and Confluence
• Minimum 7 years of experience leading the execution of projects in a modern software environment utilizing agile project management principles. Overall, 10 plus years of experience preferred
• Must be proficient in project forecasting and project accounting
• Must be able to work with different resource managers, divisions, and individuals to ensure all project tasks are coordinated and executed on-time and on-budget.
• Demonstrated excellent judgement, diplomacy and tact in managing clients
• Prior experience in law enforcement records management systems preferred
• Experience with public safety/law enforcement customers/government agencies is a plus Bachelor's degree in any analytical, quantitative, or technical field (engineering, math, computer science, stats, finance or similar), or equivalent experience
• A PMI Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) is a plus