Senior IT Project Manager

Planet Technologies is the Nation’s leading Microsoft services provider to the public sector, seeking a highly motivated individual to join their team as a Senior IT Project Manager. The role involves managing major IT projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring projects are completed on schedule, and providing strategic direction across all project initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Planet project managers deliver a wide range of technical projects. Responsible for successful service delivery and contract execution of engagements for various customer verticals (state and local government agencies, higher education, commercial, and defense industrial base)
• Office 365 implementations (email, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint) and migrations including
• Modern Endpoint Management
• Azure deployments and migrations
• Data and AI deployments
• Microsoft D365, PowerApps and, custom development work
• Organizational Change Management
• Security and Compliance
• Leading a diverse IT project team comprised of engineers with expertise in different subject matter areas, architects, cloud strategists, and project managers from initiation to production implementation, tracking project details to ensure expected results are achieved
• Creating, managing, and controlling project schedules and all required activities to ensure alignment with multiple schedules and requirements across all workstreams
• Develops and implements risk assessment, change management, quality assurance, performance, and control measures to ensure completion of projects in accordance with established standards, schedules, and budget parameters
• Develop project artifacts: project plan, implementation plans with milestones, weekly status reports, agendas, and meeting minutes paying attention to detail
• Maintain and manage Program Level budgets for various workstreams and across multiple SOWs for a single customer
• Responsible for the effective communication of project status, issues, risks, and budgetary information to key stakeholders and leadership
• Regularly meet with internal and external stakeholders to gather, prioritize, and refine requirements to discuss ongoing work, discuss opportunities and address any challenges
• Ability to identify and manage ambiguity and plan alternatives
• Develop project management what-if scenarios to facilitate decision making
• Ability to assess performance and recommend new measures to improve performance
• Professional with excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Knowledgeable in the specific area of expertise to demonstrate a proactive approach to help customers make basic decisions around features and capabilities with the option of identifying and referring additional products or services within the specific areas of technical competence if needed and/or required for the customer

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 7 to 10 years' experience as a Technical Project Manager ideally in a Microsoft Office 365 Environment
• Specific experience managing large, complex IT projects as well as simultaneously handling multiple projects
• Prepare and present information related to project progress, vision, roadmap, status reports, and other topics to senior levels of leadership, taking into account the listeners and nature of the information being presented
• Successful history of managing project scope and identifying and prepare necessary change orders
• The ability to assess risk and know when to escalate issues as it pertains to the successful completion of projects on time, on budget and to the client's satisfaction
• Oversees budget and record keeping; personnel management; contract management; project schedule and meeting all applicable regulations, policies, and requirements
• Review customer invoices and assist the accounting department as needed with related questions
• Experience working in both Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies
• Previous experience in a technical project environment planning and forecasting, addressing Risk Management as well as tracking and monitoring both the project plan and budgeting
• Ability to read and generally understand complex technical requirements
• Ability to effectively present and lead customers through technical assessment and solution architecture
• Specific knowledge of the Microsoft suite of solutions, curiosity to stay current on development trends
• Advanced skills with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Azure DevOps, and OnePlan
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification or other project management certification(s) required
• Preferred Technical Certifications in some or all: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft 365 Fundamentals, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fundamentals, Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals