Project Manager
Job Description
Project Manager
Meet the Team – Site Reliability Engineering
It is an exciting time at MassMutual! MassMutual is going through a Digital Transformation, continuing to be a leading customer-centric company. The Site Reliability Engineering team is comprised of highly skilled problem solvers who are motivated to create innovative solutions that exceed the changing needs of our customers and move MassMutual – and the industry – forward! The team culture is collaborative, cross-functional, and uses old and new technologies combined with the work/life balance. This is a newly formed SRE team with a focus on all things security, operations and automation.
Job Description
To continue our digital transformation, we are looking for a software and systems savvy PM/SCRUM Master to join the Site Reliability team that is tasked with designing, building, and integrating cloud solutions across technical and business capability domains with cost and strategic implications.
What You Will Do
- Build and cross functional communication channels and KPI metrics for SRE team deliverables and projects
- Identifying, communicating, and managing dependencies within and across teams
- Removing impediments preventing program progress
- Identifying key metrics that allow for project enablement and efficiency with cross-functional teams
- Helping to facilitate quick decision making
- Help prioritize workload and determine trade-offs of scope/budget/calendar
- Helping priority and sequence backlog items
- Roadmap development for work within and across teams
- Being familiar with the team's work, allowing appropriate workload planning
- Negotiate trade-offs between multiple competing priorities
- Facilitate and communicate key dependencies identified, and resolutions to key issues, and key decisions.
- Lead daily standup meetings to maintain adherence to timelines and requirements.
- Identify key risks and issues and develop mitigation plan. Effectively resolve issues under aggressive timelines. Understanding who to bring together to rapidly resolve issues.
- Help team define key project metrics and develop tools to track and report metrics.
- Create a community of information sharing on what's working and challenges within the organization.
- Utilize agile/adaptable delivery method for management of large strategic initiatives and smaller enhancement projects.
- Assess project health, identify key problem areas, and focus resources to turn troubled projects around.
Basic Qualifications:
- BS/BA required
- 8 + years of experience as a project manager working on implementation of new technology required
- Experience with Jira and Confluence
- Experience in an agile project management
- Strong project management skills including: conceptualization; analysis; driving alignment; planning resources; managing milestones and objectives, and Agile practices
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Experience managing cloud initiatives in an Agile environment
- Comfortable making decisions with limited data
- Entrepreneurial minded and driven self-starter with extensive experience in an agile/adaptable environment and demonstrated success in the following areas:
- Influencing stakeholders who don't have a direct reporting relationship
- Leading through ambiguity with the ability to get to clarity to provide teams with clear direction
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working within program management design
- Experience in designing Program Management on Cloud technology initiatives and/or projects
- Experience working and/or partnering with AWS Engineers on Cloud implementation
MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.