Project Manager - Apptio

Introduction
At IBM our Project Managers excel by leading and coordinating a project team’s overall performance scope cost and deliverables. Our clients rely on timely and efficient status reports and as Project Manager you will drive the charge with project direction metric definition and performance management. If you are ready to help our clients and project teams succeed we would love to meet you!

Your Role and Responsibilities

• ​​​​This role will be within the centralized PMO function and will support key programs and provide operational support for central business rhythms.
• Consistently deliver programs and meet goals on time
• Identify opportunities to align projects to business-critical initiatives and drive cross-functional programs to improve team performance and abilities
• Take a thoughtful and strategic approach to getting work done and prioritizing and escalating where appropriate
• Go deep technically when necessary to understand software architecture and software development fundamentals
• Work well with ambiguity and know how to engage leaders cross-functionally to build a plan and communicate to a diverse set of technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Take the initiative to work on various programs when asked jumping in where needed to support the broader company goals

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 4+ years of work experience in related field
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science / Software Engineering
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal
• Detail-oriented and driven to keep people and processes organized
• Experience in core project management competencies including budget scope schedule requirements quality risk and critical path management
• Project and time management and organization skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Sufficient technical depth to understand and participate in design tooling and implementation discussions and decisions
• Passion and excitement for new technologies
• Technical expertise in DevOps framework and Cloud native tools (i.e.AWS Azure GCP)
• Experience interacting with customers senior executives and business leaders
• Interest in identifying opportunities for engineering training skills development and growth
• Knowledge of business operations
• Hands on experience implementing new engineering operational processes
• Seeks to develop systems thinking skills business acumen (ROI cost-benefit analysis) and a department-wide perspective to decision making
• Advanced knowledge/education in engineering