Job Title: IT Project Manager
Location: Weston, FL
Duration: 6 months
Pay Rate: $55/hr - $60/hr (DOE) 

Job Description: 
The Planet Group is seeking a highly motivated Lead IT Project Manager to join our client. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in orchestrating and delivering complex programs that drive strategic outcomes for the organization. Leveraging your exceptional communication skills, technical expertise, and leadership abilities, you will lead cross-functional teams in executing large-scale projects while ensuring alignment with business objectives and priorities.   

Responsibilities:

• Lead and inspire cross-functional teams through excellent communication and negotiation skills, effectively collaborating with executives and stakeholders to drive consensus and alignment on objectives, scope, and deliverables, consistently advocating for the best interests of the organization while maintaining positive relationships.
• Provide strategic guidance and insight to support decision-making through data-driven analysis and your knowledge of industry trends, organizational priorities and technology and architecture trends.
• Drive project management excellence by leading the planning, execution, and delivery of complex projects by managing cross-functional teams, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards, while ensuring projects are aligned with business objectives.
• Foster an outcome-based strategy and culture by demonstrating strong leadership skills, promoting a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement, and championing best practices in project management and execution.
• Exhibit exceptional organizational skills by effectively balancing multiple priorities and dependencies and managing risks and mitigating issues.
• Manage resources effectively, optimizing resource allocation across projects to ensure the efficient and effective use of resources while delivering maximum value to the organization.
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills by identifying and resolving critical issues, leveraging your professional and technical expertise to implement innovative solutions. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or 5+ years' experience in IT (infrastructure, networking, SDLC etc.) 
• Technical and business familiarities with financial systems (D365), CRM (Salesforce), enterprise data warehouse (Azure Data Lake)
• 8-11 years' experience as a Project Manager or similar role, with a track record of successfully delivering complex software projects in a SaaS-based environment. 
• Flexibility to adapt work schedule to work with multiple time zones as needed
• Strong understanding of Agile practices, including SAFe, Scrum, LPM, and DevOps. 
• Demonstrated expertise in strategic thinking and decision-making abilities.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate cross-functional teams. 
• Strong Cross-functional team experience with various business centric
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities and a keen attention to detail
• Experience managing complex project
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to convey technical concepts across all levels with an organization towards common goals. 
• Able to perform in a hybrid-office role, if needed.
• Experience creating and maintaining project plans and reporting status to senior leaders

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with large-scale system architecture
• Experience with Merger Acquisition IT integrations
• Ability to leverage a customer-centric lens to represent the customer's needs and preferences, where applicable 
• Out-of-the-box thinker and results-driven problem solver, who is excited to dive into tough problems, and committed to delivering clear business outcomes.??
• Having a continuous learning approach, including the ability to ask relevant questions to understand requirements and context, as well as ability to receive and incorporate feedback??
• Experience with JIRA, PowerBI, DevOps
• Preferred certifications include: PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, LPM
• Agile coach experience a plus