Systems Consultant/Engineering Manager jobs in Los Angeles, CA

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Moorecroft Systems is hiring for a Program Manager for a large, enterprise level client.

This is a HYBRID position with a 12 month contract that will likely become permanent.

Basic Qualifications

• Drive activities for large, strategic, technically complex, high-priority programs
• Develop plans and timelines, accounting for all dependencies
• Ensure transparency of progress and issues/risks. Proactively drive risk mitigation and contingency planning, along with issue resolution
• Communicate status, updates, and program summaries via presentations, email, and direct communication with key stakeholders and executive leadership
• Ensure that all involved parties understand and accept their roles and responsibilities and are held accountable to their deliverables
• Facilitate all build activities (including QA), as per plan
• Proactively drive, track, and report on budgets
• Perform capacity planning for teams
• Collaborate with other program management colleagues to coordinate activities across multiple technology teams
• Strong understanding of most program domain technical components, including architecture, tools and deployment practices that development team is employing, including cross-system interactions and dependencies
• Track and report key program metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate
• Partner with Product to facilitate advancement of intake pipeline, sometimes helping to triage programs to make recommendations to senior leadership.
• Independently manage activities and resolve conflict within associated teams, with minimal influence from management.
• Facilitate discussions and activities with focus towards results.
• Coordinate with external vendors, where applicable.
• Manage smaller teams of professional employees related to area of focus or expertise.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8 years of experience managing large-scale, strategic, software development programs in a well-established global technology organization.
• Ability to facilitate effective communication across disparate teams
• Expertise in Agile or Waterfall program management methods: Scrum, Kanban, and/or Scaled Agile
• Strong planning, delivery, and problem-solving skills
• BA/BS or equivalent experience required

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: From $85.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Compensation package:

• 1099 contract

Experience level:

• 8 years

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person