Senior IT Project Manager

SCOPE OF WORK The Senior IT Project Manager serves as a subject matter expert leading Gaylor’s most complex technology projects, coordinating resources, timelines, budgets, and stakeholders across multiple concurrent, high-visibility initiatives. This role collaborates with IT leadership, business stakeholders, and vendors to define project scope, manage enterprise level risk, and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery of strategic technology initiatives.

The Senior IT Project Manager also mentors IT team members, leads project governance practices, and serves as the escalation point for the most complex delivery issues and stakeholder concerns.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads the creation and maintenance of project plans, schedules, budgets, and stakeholder documentation for complex initiatives
• Owns monitoring of project performance against scope, schedule, and budget, and reports variations to leadership
• Leads testing coordination and validation of complex project deliverables prior to go-live
• Leads evaluation, planning, and deployment of the most complex technology projects, systems, and/or enhancements throughout the enterprise
• Leads collaboration with analysts, engineers, vendors, and power users to ensure full adoption of project deliverables and process efficiencies
• Leads collaboration with business stakeholders to create functional specification documents for fulfilling complex project requirements
• Works with other teams to resolve the most complex resource conflicts and project roadblocks
• Leads project governance meetings, executive status updates, and stakeholder orientation for major deliverables
• Develops implementation, cutover, and post-go-live support plans for enterprise-wide initiatives
• Sets standards for documentation of project governance, lessons learned, and closeout reporting
• Serves as the escalation point for delivery issues for assigned projects, working directly with stakeholders and executives, as needed
• Resolves the most complex project issues and leads vendor escalation strategy
• Monitors the most complex projects for scope and budget integrity issues while working with sponsors or vendors to resolve
• Reports project portfolio status, risk, and performance to IT and executive leadership EDUCATION
• Bachelors’ degree, or four or more years related professional experience or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience, preferred EXPERIENCE
• Five to eight years’ experience managing IT or technology-related projects, in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) space, preferred
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar certification, required