Senior Program Manager

If you're seeking a sense of community and the ability for growth, look no further. Since 1982, we have been 100% dedicated to our people. Our approach permits greater ownership for individuals and welcomes input into decisions for a thriving workplace and happy employees. Our people are the core reason for AIS' success. As an employee owned company, we are looking for individuals that are passionate about finding innovative solutions, and excited about emerging technologies and capabilities.

Requirements:

• Managing programs, ensuring contractual obligations and margin goals are met while providing an outstanding client experience that will lead to contract renewals and expansions.
• Providing oversight and program direction to account teams that are delivering services to our clients
• Successfully develop and execute project plans, track deliverables, and document client acceptance of deliverables following AIS' Project Management approach.
• Identify, track, mitigate, and report on risks to delivery excellence, customer satisfaction, and employee satisfaction.
• Build positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Identify and communicate dependencies between projects.
• Maintain situational awareness of day-to-day activities on the ground.
• Build credibility through effective communication and solutioning.
• Communicate with internal stakeholders to support a coordinated response in serving the client.
• Identify and support opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Minimum twelve years of project management experience where you have demonstrated success:
  • estimating, scheduling, budgeting, and resolving risks and issues
  • clarifying requirements and expectations across multiple stakeholders
  • supporting and growing the capabilities of project team members
  • delivering multiple projects or workstreams concurrently
• Commercial Industry experience
• Experience delivering software, data, infrastructure and/or cloud technology projects
• Excel in clarifying requirements, expectations, and priorities across multiple stakeholders, bringing alignment and order to the program
• Excel in overcoming delivery challenges, building relationships with clients, and meeting or exceeding client expectations
• Ability to ask probing questions to uncover information needed to understand program and project status and determine logical course ofaction
• Proficiency in analyzing executed contracts to identify delivery implications, evaluating delivery compliance, and communicating these implications to diverse, distributedteams
• Working knowledge of Agile software methodologies
• Understand technology-related issues and how they might impact successful delivery.

• Desired:

  • Project Management Certification
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Azure
  • Previous hands-on technical experience is a plus

Applied Information Sciences is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis covered by law. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business need.