COMPLETE Sr. Salesforce Technical Project Manager

Introduction
At IBM, our Project Managers excel by leading and coordinating a project team’s overall performance, scope, cost, and deliverables. Our clients rely on timely and efficient status reports, and as Project Manager, you will drive the charge with project direction, metric definition, and performance management. If you are ready to help our clients and project teams succeed, we would love to meet you!

Your Role and Responsibilities

Octo, an IBM company, is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of technical solutions for the federal government. At Octo, we specialize in providing agile software engineering, user experience design, cloud services, and digital strategy services that address government's most pressing missions. Octo delivers intelligent solutions and rapid results, yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes.

Our team is what makes Octo great. At Octo you'll work beside some of the smartest and most accomplished staff you'll find in your career. Octo offers fantastic benefits and an amazing workplace culture where you will feel valued while you perform mission critical work for our government. Voted one of the region’s best places to work multiple times, Octo is an employer of choice!

You…

As a Senior Salesforce Technical Project Manager, you’ll be responsible for leading, managing and supporting various Salesforce technical projects throughout their full life cycle. This role will successfully manage software development or IT implementation contracts.

Us…

We were founded as a fresh alternative in the Government Consulting Community and are dedicated to the belief that results are a product of analytical thinking, agile design principles and that solutions are built in collaboration with, not for, our customers. This mantra drives us to succeed and act as true partners in advancing our client’s missions.

Program Mission…

The Digital Transformation Center (DTC) supports Veterans Affairs (VA) with onboarding and maintaining enterprise SaaS and PaaS solutions used to support the mission of serving our Veterans and their associated stakeholders. We are digitizing information and processes for improved implementation, leveraging modern tools and low code/no code for reusability and faster delivery.

Responsibilities...

• Creates and executes project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Foster culture of innovation & platform evolution cross-functionally through strategic project delivery.
• Strong defender of project constraints (i.e. scope, budget, quality & timelines) despite competing & evolving scope requirements.
• Conduct negotiations with various stakeholders, risk assessments of various project options, and present recommendations.
• Manages day-to-day operational aspects of a project, scope, and risk.
• Reviews deliverables prepared by team before passing to client.
• Effectively applies our methodology and enforces project standards.
• Prepares for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures.
• Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Reviews the status reports of team members and addresses issues as appropriate.

Years of experience: 10+ years of project management experience and 4 years of Salesforce project management.

Education: Bachelor’s degree or 4 years of equivalent experience.

Location: Fully remote in the United States.

Clearance: Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor's degree or 4 years of equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of technical project or program management experience.
• 4+ years of Salesforce project management experience.
• Proven experience with project schedules, timelines, and managing project risk.
• Analytical skills to be able to successfully manage technically and organizationally complex environments.
• Knowledge and experience with formal delivery methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall & Hybrid).
• Strong aptitude to learn and adapt to technology.
• Ability to adapt well to diverse environments.
• Ability to communicate clearly with all levels in an organization.
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical, organizational, and time management skills.
• Ability to lead and work collaboratively within a dynamic team environment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.
• Must be able to use a computer.
• Must be able to communicate both verbally and in written form.
• Must be able to obtain a government security clearance.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States.
• Must have reliable internet service that allows for effective telecommuting.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Prefer project management professional certification (PMP)