Senior PMO Specialist in Luxoft

Project Description:

Seeking a project/program management professional with 5 years of proven track record of PMO or Program/Portfolio Management within the Technology, Banking or Consultancy industry. In our fast paced environment, you must be able to prioritize tasks, work within deadlines, taking a pragmatic and considered approach, paying close attention to details, you will need to employ strong oral and written communication skills.
Please note that this is not a Project Manager position but a more classical Project management officer position.

Responsibilities:

* Assist technology leads and project managers in managing a large portfolio of programs and projects
* Ensure Project managers stick to the PMO rules and polices
* Ensure delivery of projects in accordance with Client's SDLC procedures which include many regulatory and compliance mandates.
* Managing several project metrics - Gantt / burn charts and associated KPIs periodically
* Enforce a culture of SDLC best practices across the technology group
* Maintain existing departmental and Project Office policies and procedures
* Continue to update and improve project methodologies, provide mentoring and training to other PM's and act as an SME/Coach
* Organize and facilitate closure of project and complete benefit analysis at the end of the project
* Utilize proficient Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills to provide effective reporting and documentation including dashboards and scorecards
* Excellent oral and written communication skills necessary to effectively communicate issues, risks and progress on complex processes to multiple stakeholders
* Self-initiate, work productively when unsupervised and multitask across multiple concurrent projects
* Has the confidence and ability to convincingly structure, summaries, defend and present recommendation

Mandatory Skills Description:

* Strong EXCEL and PowerPoint skills
* Strong listening, presentation, communication, and influencing skills. Articulates with confidence to senior management
* Expert level experience with managing projects, tasks, workflow and reporting in Jira
* Strong analytical and reasoning skills with a focus on project/portfolio metrics

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

* SDLC processes experience -Agile & hybrid methodologies
* Comfortable in using PPM tools such as Planview, Clarity etc.
* PMP or similar project management certification preferred
* Having directly managed a dev team in the past or experience working as a developer in a distributed team is a plus