Senior Project Lead (Contract)

About Egen:

About the opportunity:

Key Responsibilities:

• Presales, Resourcing, and Sales
• Identify and elevate needs for new or changed resourcing of new projects.
• Perform scope and requirements analysis, participate in SOW authoring.
• Contribute to and help manage SOW redlines, driving to close with SDLs.
• Partner with account teams, helping to ensure they have the information they need to be successful and aware of project delivery progress.
• Assist with back-end project preparation and execution administration both independently and under the direction of senior leaders.
• Run Project Execution
• Initiate project work with team members ensuring they are set for success internally and externally. Create kickoff materials and play a leading role in kickoff ceremonies and activities.
• Create and manage to project plans, communicate plans to internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage customer expectations on project dates, timelines accordingly.
• Partner with customer teams, partners, and project leadership.
• Take meeting minutes (with team collaboration), run meetings.
• Create project status reports, reviewing with internal teams and partnering with Delivery Leads to deliver to Customers.
• Manage the day to day project ensuring the Egen team is delivering against expectations, identify and escalate changes in scope and impediments. Manage projects using our project tracking systems.
• As needed, research and prepare change request requirements and impact. Participate in creating change requests and managing through to signature.
• Run agile or similar ceremonies, using both best practice and creativity to meet the customer and project where it is and where it needs to be.
• Manage project work, sprint/kanban work through tools, learning as needed for a given Customer environment.
• Identify and escalate risks and issues proactively.
• Think creatively about new and innovative improvements to existing processes but you know when to back off.
• Manage Internal Team Communications
• Clearly articulate scope and expectations to Egen team members, making sure their roles are clear and they are set up for success.
• Partner effectively with other teams engaged, treating the customer as an equal and actively coaching others to avoid common consulting behavior.
• Look for ways to innovate and use new tools, your own thinking and tool chest to improve how projects are run. Have the foresight to build for a client with an eye to building for future reuse.
• Regularly check in and manage the team. Keep a regular cadence of internal strategy and syncs.
• Agile Player / Coach
• Be a knowledgeable source for agile practices and philosophies.
• Demonstrate by example, leading customer and partner teams through practices.
• Use past experience and knowledge to apply the right agility to the job.
• Think creatively, recommending process improvements aligned to Egen’s brand.
• As needed, jump in hands on to write user stories, manage backlogs, clarify requirements, acceptance criteria, and all the things needed to ensure developers can produce effectively and efficiently.
• Know the difference and when to partner with your team over “manage” them.
• Partner with the Customer
• Build relationships, partnering with and advocating for your Clients. Keep a regular cadence of discussions and progress updates.
• Manage communication with stakeholders of multiple levels, primarily peer project managers and team members below.

About You:

• 3-5 years of experience in managing medium to large-scale projects with experience managing project teams of various sizes, locations, and skillsets/ levels.
• Experience in professional services or client delivery; this is a client facing role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or a technology-related field.
• Recommended experience working within product companies and consultancies.
• You think and work systematically and logically, backed up by technical skills, methodological problem solving, and practical thinking.
• You are a clear communicator both verbally and in writing. You know how to convey information through illustration, words, or diagram/workflow.
• Trained in project management and agile disciplines required either self taught or formal.
• You may have a background in engineering, software architecture, or delivery. Priority certification as a scrum master. Potentially also helpful trainings may also include other project management certifications (PMI, PMP…).
• You generally are process oriented and like to reduce the chaos, find satisfaction in organizing people, activities, and delivery.
• You are a learner, proactive, and generally strive to to do more.
• Other Relevant Details
• Desired location is the Eastern United States.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% and potentially timeshift to accommodate project needs.

Compensation Benefits:

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