IT Project Manager - Sembi

Idera

  • Austin, TX
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 day ago
Preferred Time Zone Coverage: US/EUAbout Sembi:
Sembi is a leader in software quality and security management, offering a comprehensive suite of tools that enhance testing, strengthen security, and accelerate product delivery. By unifying industry-leading solutions like TestRail, Xray, Testmo, Ranorex, Kiuwan, and PreEmptive, Sembi empowers development teams to build software the world can rely on.IT Project Manager
The IT Project Manager plays a critical role in structuring, organizing and tracking IT operations across the entire company. This role will balance recurring work items (helpdesk, hardware procurement) alongside long-running project based work (Migrations from one cloud tool to another, implementing new IT acquired software for the first time, etc). The ideal candidate has a mix of agile and waterfall methodologies who can guide technical IT team members and vendors through well-defined milestones, backlogs and defined processes to drive results.Key Responsibilities:
  • Project Leadership: Oversee and manage long-running IT projects, ensuring that deadlines, budgets, and scope are met while maintaining high-quality standards.
  • Agile Methodology: Drive the adoption and continuous improvement of Agile practices across the team, ensuring that Scrum, Kanban, or other Agile frameworks are properly followed.
  • Jira Management: Utilize Jira to track progress, manage user work queues, backlogs, sprints, and epic burndowns for long-running projects.
  • Team Coordination: Facilitate both short-term focused IT engineers working on helpdesk, procurement and other regularly scheduled work as well as long-running projects such as system implementation or system migrations.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Regularly update stakeholders and leadership on project status, roadblocks, risks, and opportunities.
  • Process Definition: Outline processes and policies for regularly scheduled business needs such as employee onboarding, laptop procurement/upgrades, employee offboarding, etc.
  • Continuous Improvement: Analyze and apply lessons learned from previous projects to enhance future processes, tools, and team performance.
Qualifications:
  • Experience working with various cloud-based IT productivity systems such as Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Hubspot, Atlassian JIRA, Zendesk and similar
  • Proven experience as an IT Project Manager, managing complex, long-term technology projects.
  • Strong expertise in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) and experience with Agile transformation.
  • Expertise in using Jira for tracking projects, managing backlogs, and sprint planning.
  • Solid understanding of project lifecycle management, including requirement gathering, planning, execution, testing, and delivery.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and adapt to changing priorities.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to issue resolution.
Preferred Skills:
  • PMP (Project Management Professional) or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certifications or similar
  • Experience with other project management tools like Confluence, Trello, or Microsoft Project
  • Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud technologies
  • Background in software development or IT infrastructure projects
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