Senior IT Project Manager

Job Title: Senior IT Project Manager Location: Columbus, OH – Hybrid – Tues, Thu onsite – Mon, Wed, Fri remote Period: 10/1/2024 – 9/30/2025 – Temp to hire potential Hours/Week: 40 hours Rate: $70 – $90/hour Contract Type: W-2 only, 401k match available Scope of Services: The Senior IT Project Manager will be responsible for leading and delivering large-scale, complex IT projects across both technical and business functions. This role requires expertise in managing all aspects of the project lifecycle, from proposal development and requirements gathering to implementation and delivery. The Project Manager will oversee project cost, scope, schedule, and performance, ensuring compliance with customer technical standards and project management methodologies, including waterfall, agile, and SDLC. The Senior IT Project Manager will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, coordinate cross-functional teams, and drive the successful execution of project objectives. Additionally, this role includes risk and issue management, dependency tracking, and process documentation. The manager will ensure timely reporting on project stability, engage executive sponsors, and manage team assignments. Leadership, communication, and relationship management skills are critical, as is the ability to manage both direct and indirect team members. Familiarity with change management approaches and experience in the energy industry is a plus. Principal Duties & Responsibilities: Develop proposals and project estimates and conduct project quality reviews Perform issue and risk management activities Use tools to forecast, plan, estimate, and track project delivery and budget Provide oversight for performance, cost, scope, schedule, and quality to technical leadership Lead the project to produce the agreed upon solution deliverables in accordance with the applicable timeframes Execute a wide range of process activities beginning with the requirements definition and continuing through development, test, and final delivery Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path Develop clear and concise documentation to identify processes, problems, and action plans as well as design attractive and simple sketches, charts, diagrams, and other illustrative material to facilitate communication of complicated topics Facilitate collaboration across multiple functions, departments, and levels and serve as a role model for teamwork Manage the relationship between Customer, other Customer IT Environment Providers, and Service Provider Personnel Coordinate and provide timely status reporting on the stability of program-oriented work efforts and on compliance with Customer technical standards and PMO aligned processes and methodologies Have responsibility for determining and communicating team assignments and directing and monitoring work efforts Provide status reports to Service Provider/Customer leadership teams on potential impacts to scope, budget, risk, and resources Experience: 7 years experience in role with: Experience with project management and leadership across IT and business functions. Experience managing large complex projects that consist of a combination of internal/external and labor/non-labor cost components Extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of project management best practices including knowledge of waterfall, agile and SDLC methodologies and tools Must have excellent leadership skills (proven ability to coach, develop, and lead a team) and must be able to work with a diverse project team consisting of resources from all parts of the organization (both IT & Business) Proven ability to engage and develop relationships with executive sponsors and key stakeholders with clarity and precision Experience with project cost management and resource capacity planning Strong Business Process Analysis and Mapping skills Experience implementing change management approaches to support projects Experience in the indirect management of team members including assisting in the development, training, and assignment of work/projects to Project management certification (PMP) Agile certification such as PSM (Professional Scrum Master) and Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) a plus ITIL v3 or v4 a plus other members of a team Familiarity with the Energy Industry is a plus