Program Manager, Principal

Requisition ID # 162837 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Information Systems Technology Services is a unified organization comprised of various departments which collaborate effectively to deliver high quality technology solutions.

Position Summary

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing Programs supporting projects within the IT Infrastructure and Cloud Services Portfolio. Their role is to ensure that our team meet the client’s expectations by delivering Project on time, within budget, in scope, and with high quality.

Ensures projects are operating effectively. Responsibilities typically include some or most of the following in support of Program Management to ensure attainment of program metrics/objectives.

• Full understanding of Program Management and Project Management activities both in Waterfall and Agile.
• Full understanding of Agile and Waterfall Methodologies
• Ability to develop templates, roadmap, reports, metrics, necessary documents
• Measuring and reporting on success of the program
• Identifying and maintaining strong working relationships with all strategic programs and partners
• Communicates and champions the infrastructure requirements necessary to execute the IT portfolio.
• Ensures compliance to Standards/regulations and governance processes.
• Highly collaborative, able to work cross-functionally; possessing the ability to forge relationships and partner effectively.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location in either our Oakland or Fairfield office, approximately 2 - 5 days per monht, or morebased on business need. 

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $140,000
Bay Area Maximum: $238.000

Job Responsibilities

• Provides IT services that include planning, development, implementation, and support for systems solutions required for the PG&E. Network Infrastructure, Fiber, Data Center Technologies, and User Device Technology.
• Utilizes various tools and techniques for estimating costs associated with a project/program including physical, financial, and human capital costs.
• Leads the effort in creative approaches to problem solving and quality deliverables supporting business needs.
• Accountable for negotiating conflicts and ensuring identified issues are resolved.
• Provides leadership and motivation to team members.
• Establish comprehensive service level agreements.
• Ensures that the project/program outcome reflects the goals of the organization/business.
• Ensures timely and effective communication regarding the mapping of initiatives to business goals to business partners, including presenting information to IT and business leaders outlining portfolio specifics.
• Acts as a liaison and conduit for information flow between the department team and the rest of the IT and business community, as well as with appropriate external stakeholders; manages the efficient and effective resolution of issues.
• Monitors program results against technical specifications.
• Ensures appropriate resources are assigned to each project/program.
• Develops and manage to a set of meaningful metrics to demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of the team on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.
• Ensures compliance to standards/regulations and governance processes.

• Develops and manages department budgets, regularly monitoring expenses against forecast, providing explanation or justification for budget items and/or variances.
• Identifies new partners, technologies, and delivery channels.
• Communicates project status to all stakeholders.
• Monitors, evaluates status, and reports on projects.
• Communicates (oral and written) with peers inside and outside of the department, providing information or exchanging data.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Job-related experience, 10 years
• IT Project/Program Experience, 5 years

Desired:

• Master’s Degree in job-related discipline or equivalent experience

• SAFe RTE, Scrum Master, or PMI PMP Certification
• Previous Utility Experience

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