Senior Program Manager
Location: REMOTE, strongly desired be local to Vienna, VA 
Pay Rate: Open to Both C2C and W2 options 
Position Type: Multiyear Contract 

Responsibilities:
• 7 -10 Years IT Project Management experience with a focus on supporting hardware and software upgrades.
• PMP Certification is required
• Local to either Vienna, Virginia, Winchester Virginia or Pensacola Florida is nice to have – not mandatory.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Nice to Have
• Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM) – Nice to Have
• Proven experience as a PM/Scrum Master
• Strong focus on delivery and actively turns lessons learned into better and faster ways to deliver. (Courageous servant leadership)
• SharePoint, PowerPoint, Excel, Service Now, ADO
• Day to Day
• Liaise with Business and Technical Stakeholders
• Strong communicator to various levels of management including senior technical staff and their management.
• PM/Scrum Master on dedicated team
• Manage project activities through all life cycles (utilizing Service Now, SharePoint, proprietary software, etc.) to ensure the best quality product is delivered
• Report on project activities
• Provide input to Annual Financial Plan (budget)
• Mainframe project management experience - is desired

 Project Leadership
• Manages the full life-cycle of the project following SDLC
• Applies project management expertise and best practices/tools to define and execute:
• Scope Management
• Schedule Management
• Issue/Risk Management
• Procurement Management
• Change Management
• Quality Management
• Vendor Management
• Contract Management
• Uses tools to manage ongoing team efforts, updating release schedules, staffing profiles, roadmaps, applications docs, and monthly reports.
• Ensures on-time and on-budget delivery of projects through organizing, developing and routinely forecasting project plans and project budget to ensure
• Change Leadership – Manages the transition to ensure adoption of change, builds strong partnerships and communication plans with all project stakeholders and project team members
• Adheres to the PM processes and actively prepares for / participates in all structured project reviews
• Background in Program Management is desired.

Leading Projects
• Lead as a PM/Scrum Master on a dedicated team supporting IT infrastructure upgrades and security upgrades.
• Must have: Experience with IT Infrastructure Projects –
• Leads and engages multiple small to medium projects simultaneously focused on a portfolio of applications, all components of a larger business solution.
• Ensures alignment of all project roles and responsibilities and they are articulated to each team member, modified as required, and accomplished throughout the project
• Takes initiative to improve processes, team organization, and reporting
• Monitors and measures staff/resource assignment results against project / task goals and accountabilities

Vendor Relationships
• Develop and maintain effective rapport with vendors, experience reviewing invoices and overseeing work/deliverables

Communication
• Proactively provides consistent, concise, relevant, reliable, and timely information to all appropriate internal and external audiences/stakeholders through a variety of media
• Ensures accuracy of information to enable effective business decisions.