Senior Engineering Project Manager

Company Summary

As the recognized global standard for project-based businesses, Deltek delivers software and information solutions to help organizations achieve their purpose. Our market leadership stems from the work of our diverse employees who are united by a passion for learning, growing and making a difference. At Deltek, we take immense pride in creating a balanced, values-driven environment, where every employee feels included and empowered to do their best work. Our employees put our core values into action daily, creating a one-of-a-kind culture that has been recognized globally. Thanks to our incredible team, Deltek has been named one of America's Best Midsize Employers by Forbes, a Best Place to Work by Glassdoor, a Top Workplace by The Washington Post and a Best Place to Work in Asia by World HRD Congress. www.deltek.com

Business Summary

The Deltek Information Technology team provides technical support, services and applications to Deltek's global workforce. We are dedicated to finding innovative ways to help our employees maximize their productivity and exceed their business goals. If you're a world-class problem solver looking to be part a diverse, dynamic and collaborative team – join us as we power success for all of Deltek.

Position Responsibilities

Deltek is seeking a results-oriented project manager with strong experience leading agile software development projects. In this high visibility position, the Senior Project Manager will lead project teams through an agile software development lifecycle to deliver both new and existing Deltek Cloud products and will be accountable for on-time, on-budget, high quality software project deliveries. This position requires a high degree of collaboration with the leaders of technical teams such as design, development, documentation, operations and quality assurance, and coordination to manage dependencies and handoffs between engineering, product management and release readiness teams.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Project Planning and Management – Apply modern project management techniques to manage a project, achieving objectives of scope, quality, time and cost. Organize and lead project status and working meetings. Prepare progress reports. Present to executive steering committee on a regular basis. Proactively identify and mitigate project risks and issues. Manage project changes. Develop relationships with key business stakeholders.
• Team Management – Hold project teams accountable for their project responsibilities and deliverables. Proactively ensure that teams are in sync in terms of communication, schedules, and issues. Develop project teams by promoting empowerment, engagement and high quality deliverables. Distributed team members may be in the US, Europe, India, and the Philippines.
• Product Manager Support - Partner with product managers/owners to plan and prioritize product delivery roadmaps and support key customer deployments.
• Process Management and Improvement – Champion continuous improvement and adoption of project management and agile software development best practices.
• Cross Functional Teaming – Assemble and lead cross-functional teams to achieve project goals, holding teams accountable for successful results. Work with the team to establish measureable goals for the release, and establish a controlled release schedule that includes Beta, Limited Availability, and General Availability releases, an Early Adopter Program, and all cross-functional readiness activities. Encourage cross-functional business involvement in projects, building trusted relationships with business counterparts to ensure alignment and buy-in.
  
  
  

Other Key Requirements of the Successful Candidate:

• Strong understanding of Project Management methodologies and Agile software development
• A strong communicator with the ability to pull out and summarize information and tailor communication style and content for a variety of audiences. Comfortable and confident presenting to executives.
• Ability to identify and manage risks, establishing mitigation and contingency plans proactively.
• Detail oriented, the kind of project manager that thinks through all of the details of a project plan and ensures team members are progressing towards key milestones.
• Driven, proactive and a do-er.
• Ability to establish project goals, validate and confirm acceptance, challenge and hold stakeholders accountable.
• Enough technical insight to become a credible leader with development teams, to facilitate resolution of software product issues, and to evaluate complex project issues and risks.
• Skilled in building trusted relationships with team members and project stakeholders.
• Ability to effectively address and resolve conflict within and across teams.
• Ability to think creatively to define innovative solutions to complex technical/business problems.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressively responsible experience on large scale software development projects, preferably in a commercial software development environment
• Proven experience managing agile projects and moving teams to agile methodologies.
• B.S., Computer Science, Business Administration or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience managing projects with remote teams in distributed, world-wide locations.
• Experience developing or deploying software to enhance a cloud environment (desired)
  
  
  

Travel Requirements

No

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