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Portfolio Management
Alpharetta, GA
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Overview


Our company (E*TRADE) Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) is looking for a dynamic, self-motivated Project Manager with significant infrastructure experience to join our PMO team in Alpharetta, GA. ETS delivers firm-wide services and platforms including network infrastructure, core computing, storage, and application infrastructure. Your infrastructure experience, collaborative approach, ability to identify challenges as opportunities, teamed with energy and excitement to coach, drive, and facilitate infrastructure initiatives will deliver best in class technology to the organization to support the products that E*TRADE markets.


-Proactively manage and remove impediments and risks to ensure the teams can focus on delivering incremental business value, while working to establish the team's baseline velocity, sprint cadence, and release plans

-Develop and maintain all project documentation required for successful delivery of the project and for records retention purposes in accordance with organizational policies

-Identify and actively manage risk according to impact and probability, escalating when necessary


Responsibilities

-Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business

-Provide leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones

-Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously

-Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives

-Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test, and deployment management activities

-Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence

-Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools, and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization

-Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings

-Lead on-going execution / delivery efforts for infrastructure initiatives which includes the delivery of hardware, software, storage, network, and database components

-Actively assess and mitigate risks and issues


Requirements

This is a high-visibility role within E*TRADE, with significant strategic responsibility. As a result, we are looking for candidates with:

-5+ years of Agile/Scrum experience managing mid to large infrastructure projects

-Broad-based Agile / Scrum Master / Kanban expertise

-Proven influencing and coaching capabilities

-5 - 10 years of applied project leadership

-Strong analytical and communications skills are a must (Note: strong Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills will be a baseline expectation for this role)

-The ability to structure and organize complex data and execution efforts

-A core focus on providing great service across our stakeholder groups on a daily basis

-A foundational orientation towards servant-leadership oriented change management


Qualifications

-Infrastructure experience is required for this role

-Bachelor of Science (B.S) Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or MIS, or equivalent experience

-Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is preferred

-Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) is preferred

-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) is desired


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