Senior IT Project Manager

PCG is seeking an experience Senior IT Project Manager to join our team in Lenexa, KS. The Senior IT Project Manager leads complex, cross-functional IT projects from Discovery through Closure, overseeing multiple projects and software releases, mentoring project managers, and driving continuous improvement in project management practices.

Essential Functions:

Strategic Project Leadership

• Lead high-impact projects from Discovery through Closure, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Oversee project planning, resource management, and execution for multiple concurrent projects.
• Serve as primary escalation point for project risks and issues.

Portfolio, Release & Handoff Management

• Coordinate and oversee software releases across multiple projects, ensuring readiness and quality.
• Plan and execute handoff of support responsibilities to Application Support after releases.
• Collaborate with DevSecOps to design, implement, and maintain release pipelines for reliable deployments.
• Drive CICD release planning strategies and automation integration across projects and teams.
• Maintain hygiene within Project Management and Portfolio Management platforms
• Lead Project review meetings and facilitate JAD sessions within the project group and business leadership groups
• Lead and facilitate PI Planning sessions to align teams, define objectives, and ensure delivery commitments across multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs).

Environment & Architecture Transition Oversight

• Lead initiatives for environment and architecture transitions (e.g., UDE migration), ensuring governance and risk mitigation.

Resource & Capacity Management

• Collaborate with Resource Managers to allocate resources and resolve conflicts.
• Mentor and coach project managers, fostering professional growth and best practices.
• Monitor and provide oversite of project resources from a Resourced vs Estimated vs Actual use perspective to ensure cost containment and delivery timeframes are met.

Vendor Engagement

• Establish vendor coordination strategies for Delivery, UAT, Support Handoff, and other critical phases, including escalation frameworks.
• Identify and collaborate with Vendor relationship owners to ensure that Vendors can meet project needs and timeline

Technical Training Coordination

• Partner with Technical Training to ensure end-user training needs are identified and addressed for all project deliverables.
• Assist in PM team development and capability advancement strategies.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and maintain strong relationships with business sponsors, stakeholders, and technical teams.
• Deliver executive-level reporting and presentations on project status and outcomes.

Process Improvement & Governance

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, standardizing processes and tools.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and governance standards.
• Implement transparency practices, including dashboards and reporting frameworks.

Risk and Change Management

• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues across projects.
• Lead change management efforts, ensuring smooth transitions and stakeholder buy-in.

Contribution Towards Team Scorecard KPI Targets

• Accountable for meeting PM Team KPI targets in project data hygiene, process compliance, stakeholder communication, proactive forecasting, and responsible AI adoption, as defined in the PM Team Scorecard.

Other Duties

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Advanced expertise in Agile and Waterfall methodologies, including portfolio-level planning and governance.
• Deep understanding of CICD release strategies, automation integration, and DevSecOps collaboration.
• Ability to lead environment and architecture transition initiatives at an enterprise scale.
• Proficiency in tooling migration planning, risk mitigation, and integration strategies.
• Strong vendor engagement and escalation management especially for Team Alignment, UAT, & Delivery phases
• Exceptional stakeholder management and ability to deliver executive-level reporting.
• Skilled in mentoring and coaching project managers, fostering team development and certification planning.
• Expertise in process improvement, governance compliance, and transparency practices (dashboards, reporting frameworks).
• Strategic thinking with ability to align projects to organizational goals and manage complex dependencies.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of IT project management experience, including leadership of complex, cross-functional projects.
• Proven experience with CICD release planning, DevSecOps collaboration, and environment transition oversight.
• Demonstrated success in vendor coordination, risk management, and change management.
• Advanced project management certifications preferred (A-CSM, PSM-II/III, CSP, or PMI-PMP).
• Strong leadership, communication, and negotiation skills with experience in executive stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to mentor and develop project management talent and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits

At Performance Contracting, our employees are our greatest asset. We put our people first and are proud to provide a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet the needs of our employees at every stage of life.

In our commitment to fostering an environment where everyone can thrive personally and professionally, we offer:

• Competitive pay
• Incentive bonus plan
• Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with match
• Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance plans with flexible spending account option
• Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Flexible paid time off policy and paid holidays

PCG provides equal employment and affirmative action opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.

PCG is a background screening, drug-free workplace. In accordance with the provisions of Tennessee Code Annotated (T.C.A.), Title 50, Chapter 9, PCG's Drug-Free Workplace Program includes drug and alcohol testing as part of the hiring process and throughout employment, as applicable.

Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

NOTICE TO STAFFING FIRMS, AGENCIES AND EMPLOYMENT VENDORS:

Performance Contracting Group and its affiliates will not accept unsolicited resumes from third party recruiters without a signed Fee Agreement in place AND a candidate has been submitted into our applicant tracking system (Dayforce). Vendor solicitation should be directed to the Corporate Recruitment Department directly; as such, firms that circumvent the required compliant process will be barred from submitting candidates. In the absence of a signed fee agreement AND proper resume submission, PCG does not recognize any claim on a candidate by a third party, will consider unsolicited resumes the property of the company and reserves the right to engage and hire those candidates without any financial responsibility to the third-party vendor.

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