Senior PMO Specialist in Luxoft

Direct message from the member who posted the job with Luxoft Karina Shchelkanova Karina Shchelkanova Looking for Developers in Ukraine and Romania 🔥 Project descriptionSeeking 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 policies * Ensure delivery of projects in accordance with Client's SDLC procedures which include many regulatory and compliance mandates. * Managing several project metricsGantt / 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 SkillsMust haveStrong EXCEL and PowerPoint skillsStrong listening, presentation, communication, and influencing skills. Articulates with confidence to senior managementExpert level experience with managing projects, tasks, workflow and reporting in JiraStrong analytical and reasoning skills with a focus on project/portfolio metricsNice to haveSDLC processes experience -Agile & hybrid methodologiesComfortable 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 LANGUAGES English: B2 Upper IntermediateShow more Show less Position level Senior secondary level Type of employment Full-time Job responsibilities Information technologies and project management Industries IT services and IT Consulting