IT Project Manager

Location:

Charlotte, NC (Uptown). This role is required to be fulfilled onsite 5 days a week.

Salary Range:

Competitive and commensurate with experience.

Introduction

Join an exciting team within Global Information Security, specifically the Cyber Security Technology division. This globally distributed team is responsible for cybersecurity innovation, architecture, engineering, solutions and capabilities development, cyber resiliency, access management engineering, data strategy, deployment maintenance, technical project management, and information technology security control support. The role focuses on optimizing the flow of work and the value delivered by the Application Security team through effective planning, orchestration, and management of release events.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 7 years of active involvement in project management with a strong track record of delivering projects/releases.
• 7 years leading large-scale transformation programs involving business process and change.
• 5 years of Agile experience in a change agent role.
• Strong understanding of Agile principles, concepts, and ceremonies.
• Broad knowledge of change policy, processes, environments, and tools as well as the risk control framework.
• Experience in Release Management and SDLC life cycle process.
• Experience in both technical and functional capacities.
• Solid verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• SAFe SM RTE certification.
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Agile methodologies.
• Proficiency with Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with ITSM Remedy.
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team.
• Previous experience as a collaborative leader.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Promote and coach the Agile mindset and principles, enabling the organization to become high-performing as one cohesive team.
• Coordinate release execution through defining cross-team dependencies and ensuring a well-defined program/release schedule.
• Create, manage, and communicate release events to leadership for upcoming release changes, providing post-release outcomes and actions.
• Maintain central release management tracking, reporting, approval, and escalation routines.
• Resolve impediments to delivery quickly, protect teams from outside disruptions, and drive continuous improvement.
• Partner with engineering, development, and testing teams to plan, execute, and deliver change initiatives into production ensuring risk control and production stability.
• Ensure compliance with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements.
• Optimize the flow of epics/features and the value delivered by the release train.
• Partner with Product Managers to ensure the program has a healthy product/program backlog.
• Mentor junior scrum masters.

Company Benefits & Culture

• Inclusive and diverse work environment.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth.
• Comprehensive benefits package.

For immediate consideration please click APPLY or contact me directly at Pratyusha.B@artech.com or call me at my work phone 973-786-2953