Senior IT Project Manager

Primary Responsibilities :

The IT Project Manager is responsible for guiding IT related projects and initiatives at DC Water to completion with scope, on schedule and on budget.

The Project Manager is responsible for ensuring the success of projects following the DC Water project methodology and will be reporting to the Manager, IT PMO.

The Project Manager has responsibility for the following :

• Working within the guidelines and framework set by DC Water’s PMO
• Assisting in educating and evangelizing project management throughout DC Water
• Assisting in developing project life cycle templates as needed.
• Participates in lessons learned and providing process improvement suggestions to ensure constant improvement and maturation of best practices in project management.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications;

establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.

Portfolio Management

• Developing feasibility studies for the IT Steering Committees
• Developing business cases for the IT Steering Committees
• Assist steering committees with selection & prioritization of IT initiatives.

Project Management

• Providing project metrics, status, and reporting to DC Water management consistent with DC Water standards on assigned projects.
• Writing project charters for all assigned projects
• Managing a mix of internal and third-party staff
• Provide project level of effort and other estimates.
• Ensure project budgets, schedules, scope, deliverables, issues, risks, and tasks are managed.
• Establishing and maintaining project controls
• Manages the activities and people associated with the project as well as the success of that project.
• Defines project schedules to plan and coordinate project activity.
• Provides technical coordination and leadership for the team.
• Assists with development and oversight of development and testing for projects.
• Ensures projects are securely delivered and fulfill expectations.
• Works directly with Architects, System Analysts and QA / Testing team to manage the technical aspects of a development project.
• Makes sure that project deliverables and documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.

Basic Qualifications :

To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below :

• Demonstrated track-record leading multidisciplinary teams, leading technical projects, and collaborating across business units to develop ideas and solutions successfully.
• Dynamic, solution oriented, self-starter with strong attention-to-detail and the ability to function independently.
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Strong planning and organizational ability
• Strong analytical, problem solving, management and leadership skills.
• Strong discipline in creating and maintaining a process-oriented culture around repeatable processes.
• Strong understanding of the System and Software Development Life Cycle
• Strong understanding of PMI based project management methodology.
• Strong technical knowledge and a well-rounded knowledge of all aspects of information technology
• Strong risk management and mitigation ability
• Ability to set and manage priorities in a dynamic changing environment.

Required Experience :

• Bachelors in IT or a closely related field (., Computer Science, Engineering, and a minimum of 10 years work experience in Information Technology
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience as an IT project manager
• Experience managing cross-functional teams with a minimum of five team members for the Utility Industry functional departments .

Customer Service, Finance, Operations., Permits etc.

• Experience with infrastructure, cybersecurity, and network projects.
• Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Proficient with MS Project, SharePoint, Visio, MS Office tools, JIRA.
• Experience with Project Portfolio management concepts.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Client facing experience (internal or external)
• Experience with successfully managing multiple internal and external projects parallelly.
• Experience with system integration, software development, waterfall, and agile methodology (Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience with implementation of ERP Systems (Preferably Oracle, SAP)
• Capacity planning and strong resource management experience
• Experience correcting at risk projects and motivating team members.

Preferred Experience :

• Experience with web-based project management solutions (., MS Project Server, , Clarity)
• Experience collaborating with remote teams.
• CMMI experience
• Government or utility experience
• ITIL foundations, CSM or Prince2 certifications (nice to have)
• Experience utilizing automated testing tools for quality assurance (Load Runner, Rational)
30+ days ago