Senior Project Manager

Summary

Join Emergent Software as a Delivery Lead and work remotely on interesting projects for our clients. This role requires strong project and client management skills, experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, and a solid understanding of Microsoft products, including Copilot, Purview, Intune, Entra, and standard M365 offerings. You will be responsible for project management, schedule management, budget management, stakeholder engagement, communications, change control, risk and quality management, and ensuring adherence to DevOps and production support processes. Emergent Software offers a flexible work schedule, work-life balance, professional development opportunities, profit sharing, and an excellent benefits package. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of experience managing implementation projects and 3+ years of experience with requirements gathering and documentation. A strong technical background and excellent communication skills are essential.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure offerings
• Solid understanding of traditional project management concepts and practices
• 4+ year track record of successfully managing implementation projects
• 3+ years’ experience with requirements gathering / documentation
• Sufficient level of technical background enabling you to provide credible guidance to engineering teams and accurately evaluate complex project risks and issues
• Familiarity with Microsoft Dev Ops and/or other work organization tools (Jira, Trello, Basecamp, Rally)
• Experience operating as the liaison between engineering teams and users, driving delivery in the right direction
• Ability to thrive on a small team in a fast-paced environment while juggling a variety of projects and wearing multiple hats
• Exemplary problem-solving ability & enthusiasm
• Strong technical writing, verbal communication, and presentation skills are a must
• Experiencing managing a wide breadth of priorities, including strong organization skills and ability to prioritize

Responsibilities

• Project Management: Ensure alignment on deliverables required to successfully complete project engagement, assign and track tasks and communicate status. Ensure considerations such as end user communication and risk management throughout the engagement
• Schedule Management: Update resource schedules / allocations, meet with team members to ensure balance between demand and capacity, review timecard actuals vs planned
• Budget Management: Track cost (ETC/EAC), forecast/re-estimate spend throughout project, manage cost variance, report overall valuation of the project progress and execution, manage resources and time tracking/reporting tools
• Stakeholder Engagement: Manage stakeholder relationships and client engagement with direct support from client account managers
• Communications: Facilitate all project meetings, create/update/distribute project documentation, send regular (weekly or bi-weekly) status updates to stakeholders per PMO policy, contribute to executive-level dashboards, participate in monthly/quarterly business reviews
• Change Control: Document change control items per the standard PMO process & best practices, tracking impact to timeline, scope, resources, or cost
• Risk & Quality Management: Identify, manage, mitigate, and communicate issues and risks throughout the project
• DevOps & Production Support Process Adherence: Ensure your team adheres to DevOps and Production Support policies that include standard incident management, release management, build management, deploy management, change management and production support procedures

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous consulting experience
• Experience building solutions with Microsoft technologies such as .NET, SQL Server, Azure, and Office 365

Benefits

• Work from home or work remotely from anywhere you want
• Flexible work schedule meaning you can work regular hours or whenever you work best
• Work-life balance is essential and highly valued at Emergent Software. If you choose to work more than 40 hours, you’ll be compensated for the extra work!
• Work on interesting projects solving complex business problems with software solutions
• 100 hours per year to focus on your professional development . We invest in your growth!
• Profit sharing bonus means as we’re successful, you’re successful
• Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, FSA, disability, life insurance, and paid parental leave
• Medical Insurance: up to 80% of your monthly medical premium (HSA options available)
• HSA Contribution: up to $144/month
• Dental & Vision Insurance: up to 50% of your monthly dental and vision premium costs
• 401(k) plan: company match up to 4% of salary
• Profit sharing bonus: up to 15% of salary paid quarterly
• Extra compensation: get paid extra for work over 40 hours/week
• Employee referral & customer referral bonuses
• Flex Spending Account (FSA) for Dependent Care & Healthcare Costs
• Dependent Care FSA Contribution: $90/month
• Short Term Disability: $500/week for 12 weeks
• Long Term Disability: up to $6,000/month
• Group term life and AD&D insurance: $50k
• PTO, standard holidays, 2 floating holidays
• Paid parental leave: 2 weeks
• Staff development program: 100 hours/year plus training costs