Sr Project Manager, EPMO - Chatsworth
Summary
Sr. Project Manager in an EPMO leading 4-5 concurrent enterprise projects end-to-end using Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid methodologies and Jira, while mentoring teams and reporting to senior leadership at a credit union.
Overview:
The Sr. Project Manager, EPMO plans, manages, and delivers multiple medium-to-large, complex projects enterprise-wide, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, and quality are met while keeping the member and internal-customer experience at the forefront. Acting as a change agent across cross-functional teams, the Sr. Project Manager is fluent in Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery and applies the approach best suited to each initiative. This role owns end-to-end delivery, keeps stakeholders informed, and mentors project managers and teams in sound delivery practices.
What You Will Do:
- Own end-to-end delivery of assigned projects, developing full-scale plans with clearly defined scope, goals, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria in partnership with project owners.
- Apply the right methodology — Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid — based on the complexity and risk profile of each initiative and manage a minimum of 4–5 concurrent projects.
- Facilitate Agile delivery by running sprints and ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives), managing the backlog in Jira, and removing impediments to keep teams on track.
- Manage change control, resource allocation, and vendor coordination throughout the project lifecycle.
- Identify, monitor, and mitigate project risks and issues, proactively resolving or escalating to protect timelines and budgets.
- Conduct project closures, ensuring operational integration, capture of lessons learned, and evaluation against defined success criteria.
- Support portfolio reporting and success metrics, and identify opportunities to improve processes, automation, and workflow efficiency.
- Report project status and communicate updates to senior leadership and business review teams using appropriate tools, techniques, and metrics.
- Provide direction and mentoring to project teams, managers, owners, and sponsors, encouraging trust, accountability, and continuous improvement.
What they ask for
Required
- Fluent in Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery
- Manage a minimum of 4–5 concurrent projects
- Run sprints and ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives)
- Manage the backlog in Jira
- Manage change control, resource allocation, and vendor coordination
- Identify, monitor, and mitigate project risks and issues
- Conduct project closures and capture lessons learned
- Provide direction and mentoring to project teams and managers