Senior Technology Project Manager - Enterprise Technology PMO

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as the point of contact and client interface for project technology related issues.
- Manage project expectations, evaluate project needs, and communicate with stakeholders to ensure that program needs are met with respect to urgency and priority.
- Develop trust, credibility, and strong client relationships; seeks opportunities to add value to internal and external client initiatives.
- Review all project deliverables to ensure quality and accuracy meet project, stakeholder, and contractual standards.
- Execute all project management functions including; work breakdown and cost estimation, scheduling, monitoring and tracking of technical progress against the defined timetables and budgets, and staff assignment and development.
- Lead and direct the successful delivery of application development, systems integration, infrastructure, and product installation/customization services while ensuring that assigned projects adhere to the approved life cycle work patterns, standards, and procedures for solution delivery.
- Define and implement development plans for assigned projects.

- Typically responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area.

- Ensure staff is knowledgeable on the applications and technologies in use on the project and that project team understands and follows processes and procedures.
- Provide detailed direction during various stages of the lifecycle to include requirements analysis, testing, and potentially programming support.
- Identify and assess new functional capabilities supporting engineering change proposals and additional follow on work.
- Identify, track, manage, and communicate risks and issues with stakeholders and upper management.
- Coordinate, prepare, and manage technical presentations and functional demonstrations to internal and external stakeholders.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Serve as the primary point of contact between program leadership and external (government) client representatives to ensure clear communication and alignment across the project lifecycle (initiate, plan, execute, monitor/control, close).

- Strong communication skills, including executive briefings and clear written status reporting.

- Coordinate daily with Chief Engineer and Lead Product Owner to manage the full project lifecycle with a focus on maintaining the requirements register, cross-team dependencies, risk assessments, and reference architectures.

- Build and manage client relationships; align expectations with sponsors and stakeholders in accordance with the contract or program scope; and proactively surface risks, decisions, and tradeoffs to maintain alignment to contract scope, priorities, and outcomes.

- Plan and lead program kickoffs and provide weekly updates and monthly/quarterly program management reviews

- Ensure Chief Engineer and Lead Product Owner are synchronized to drive recurring delivery ce...