Sr IT Project Manager

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About NCR Atleos

NCR Atleos, headquartered in Atlanta, is a leader in expanding financial access. Our dedicated 20,000 employees optimize the branch, improve operational efficiency and maximize self-service availability for financial institutions and retailers across the globe. NCR Atleos was ranked #12 in Newsweek's prestigious 2025 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces® list.

Job Title: Senior IT Project Manager

Location: Atlanta, GA (Will consider applicants in Frisco, TX )

Workstyle: Hybrid MUST BE ONSITE 3X A WEEK

Eligibility: Please note that this position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship now or in the future. This restriction applies to all candidates for this position.

Overview

Reporting to the Executive Director of PMO and/or Program manager, the role of Project Manager is to scope, plan and deliver projects and initiatives to meet specified business needs, controlling resources from several areas (and potentially third parties) to achieve agreed cost, time and quality objectives. The Project Manager has the overall accountability and responsibility for the progress and successful delivery of the project effort.

Key Expectations

• Responsible for scoping, planning, and delivering projects to meet business needs
• Lead complex IT projects and ensure successful delivery while collaborating with various teams
• Possess strong and effective communication skills
• Manage project scope, budget, and resources effectively
• Proactively mitigate risks and resolve project-related issues
• Coordinate project teams and deliverables
• Ensure alignment with organizational goals
• Direct design and development of applications, networks, or databases
• Lead the development of global solutions through in-depth program evaluation
• Effective communication skills to articulate technical information to project teams and executive level personnel
• Problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and resolve project-related issues
• Refining resource, cost and duration estimates as the project progresses, ensuring that requests for resources for each phase are supplied sufficiently early to enable them to be secured when needed. Managing proposed changes in scope, schedule or budget with key stakeholders relaying any impact to cost, schedule or scope and providing a recommended course of action. Scheduling, managing and participating in key quality reviews and developing action plans to resolve issues arising.
• Ensuring a clean, structured and fully supported transition to BAU. Providing out of hours cover over implementation weekends when Project goes live
• Obtaining approval from the sponsor that the acceptance criteria have been met. Confirming that the project's objectives have been achieved and that all outstanding risks and issues have been accepted by the sponsor.
• Performing comparisons of estimated and actual costs and completing financial closeout. Facilitating the project evaluation and obtaining approval to close out the project, documented within end project report
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
• Significant proven Project Management experience (7 years) in an Agile environment
• Mastery of IT project management
• Deep understanding of IT strategy and planning, including program financial concepts
• Understanding of advanced IT performance metrics
• History of matrix-managing others for the successful completion of a medium to large projects ($5M budget). Having managed full lifecycle projects with inter-dependent or direct resources
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with a global team from all regions of the world (cultural, language, timezone diversity)
• Fluency in technology tools (SharePoint, JIRA, MS Office)
• Strong time management discipline
• Ability to work well in a team environment & fast paced environment
• Time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively
• Attention to detail to ensure accuracy in project documentation and reporting
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing large IT programs in a Hardware and Software Services environment
• Adaptability to learn new project management tools and methodologies
• Experience in at least one of the following areas strongly preferred: Regulatory, Compliance, ATM/Payment Solutions
  
  

Offers of employment are conditional upon passage of screening criteria applicable to the job.

Full Time Employee Benefits Include

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short/Long Term Disability
• Paid Vacation
• 401k
  
  

EEO Statement

NCR Atleos is an equal-opportunity employer. It is NCR Atleos policy to hire, train, promote, and pay associates based on their job-related qualifications, ability, and performance, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, marital status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, medical condition, military or veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Statement to Third Party Agencies

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