Production Readiness Project Manager

Production Readiness Project Manager

Apply locations: Pennington, Richmond, Charlotte, Kennesaw

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted Yesterday

Job requisition id: 25012250

Job Description:

About us:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day.

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At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:

This job is responsible for planning and coordinating the execution of project/small program deliverables which requires the engagement of multiple teams. Key responsibilities include communicating work objectives, coordinating delivery, facilitating sync points across teams, providing end-to-end visibility into the health of the deliverables, and managing program risk and compliance to standards. Job expectations include ensuring delivery meets the client’s expectations in terms of functionality, quality, timeline, and cost.

Overview:

The Production Services Lead - Production Readiness is accountable for the production readiness of critical projects within releases. Participates throughout the project life cycle ensuring design/change account for operational stability, such as ensuring monitoring, logging, and technical recoveries are built in. Ensures production support teams have what is needed to operationally support the environment post change, including documentation, knowledge transfer, demos, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Leads and coordinates routines to support delivery (e.g., kick-offs, status reviews, stakeholder meetings, change controls, and tollgates)
• Manages coordination of delivery and dependencies across multiple teams
• Facilitates communication and collaboration across organizations to support the deliverable completion and timeline
• Provides status updates for the deliverables to stakeholders and leadership pertaining to delivery, risks, issues, and schedule
• Works with sponsors and stakeholders to ensure that execution is aligned with deliverable requirements
• Supports resource planning for delivery and execution
• Ensures adherence with Enterprise Change Management standards
• Understand at a high level and provide full oversight to Programs or High Impact Projects in each release
• Engage appropriate teams to review and analyze high-risk areas
• Partner with Portfolio Release Management and Project Managers from both the TI and CIO to understand holistic Release project scopes
• Assist with remediating gaps/risks and ensure mitigation plans are developed
• Understand the full spectrum of gathering project information for each release and assessing for impact and PR engagement
• Escalate quality or timeline issues appropriately and construct periodic status reports
• Develop and/or maintain the project assessment form used in understanding project scope/impact
• Develop new processes or drive efficiencies from existing processes
• Provide one-off facilitation for out of scope requests
• Manage the engagement process and mitigate any future gaps
• Understanding of end-to-end Release timelines

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years hands-on experience in IT, with IT systems and/or application management
• Project management experience (e.g., planning, organizational, and time management skills)
• Knowledge of Production Support procedures and requirements
• Experience leading process improvement initiatives
• Monitoring tool and coding experience

Desired Qualifications:

• 5+ years hands-on experience in IT, with IT systems and/or application management
• Software/code development
• Problem Management
• Risk Assessment
• SharePoint Expertise/Development
• Post Production / Operations Follow-up
• Knowledge of the Agile paradigm
• Excellent verbal, written communication and organizational skills
• Strong results & detail-oriented, along with excellent interpersonal skills (e.g., documentation, teamwork)
• Experience in L2 or L3 platform or application triage
• Strong Coordination and Facilitation skills to drive meetings through intended outcome
• High level understanding of the Design, Network Topology, Infrastructure documents
• Exceptional system analysis skills - using technical diagrams (e.g., use of architecture diagrams) and assessing the impact a change will have
• Technical aptitude - has the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies, applications, etc. and understand how to assess their production readiness
• Solid foundation and working knowledge of Topology Design, Network connectivity and Monitoring tools
• Solid foundation of understanding Monitoring tools (Splunk, AppD, Sitescope, Glassbox, etc.)
• Strong Confluence/JIRA experience

Skills:

• Collaboration
• Project Management
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Stakeholder Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Financial Management
• Influence
• Risk Management
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Data Management
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40