Project Manager

Company: CGI Group, Inc.
Location: Lafayette
Posted on: June 19, 2022

Job Description:

Project Manager

Position Description
We're growing rapidly and are looking for a Project Manager to help us manage program portfolios that deliver strategic business objectives and value. When you join us, you'll play a key role working with customers and other stakeholders to develop and implement solutions in a complex, highly dynamic environment. As a Program Manager, you will help us provide strategic and technical management oversight to a complex portfolio of systems for one of our Federal client.

We're a close-knit team that has access to global resources. You'll have the opportunity to explore a wide range of industries, technologies, and geographies, all while enjoying the personal touch that our local operating approach offers.

Growth at CGI is driven by your goals, so if you're looking for an inclusive place where you're empowered to chart your own path, then we'd love to meet you.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Be accountable for program-level activities, milestones, performance, schedule, risks.
• Work closely with the client and business partners to build trust while managing all aspects of the program and providing transparency to our client.
• Plan and schedule program-level activities and schedule of projects.
• Manage program-level scope, issues and risks, and quality management.
• Be well versed in full systems development life cycle, enterprise wide network engineering, strategic information planning, business process reengineering, and management practices.
• Identify and mitigate risks to the program.
• Resolve resource conflicts.
• Negotiate timelines with key stakeholders.
• Provide status regarding program health to clients and key stakeholders.
• Ensure deliverables are produced according to defined schedule.
  Required qualifications to be successful in this role
  
  • 15+ years of project or program management experience.
  • Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business or related scientific /technical discipline.
  • 10 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education.
  • Ability to obtain a the equivalent to a Public Trust clearance with the U.S. Federal Government.
  • Solid project management skills related to project planning and control, scope management, issue and risk management, and quality management.
  • Experience managing a portfolio of projects.
  • Strong client management experience.
  • Excellent leadership and team development skills.
  • Timely, decisive, and effective problem-solving skills.
  • SAFe Agilist and/or Project Management Certification, preferred.
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    While technology is at the heart of our clients' digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.
    
    When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees "members" because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today - one of the world's largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.
    
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