Cloud Project Management - (Multiple Levels: Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, Principal Project Manager)

Job Description

Caylent is seeking skilled Project Management professionals at multiple seniority levels to join their expanding Cloud Project Management team. The specific role and level will be determined during the recruitment process, based on the candidate's qualifications, experience, and assessment feedback. The right candidate is empathic, customer-obsessed, and organized.Caylent is a cloud native services company that helps organizations bring the best out of their people and technology using Amazon Web Services (AWS). They provide a full-range of AWS services including workload migrations and modernization, cloud native application development, DevOps, data engineering, security and compliance, and everything in between. At Caylent, their people always come first. They are a global company and operate fully remote with employees in Canada, the United States, and Latin America. They celebrate the culture of each of their team members and foster a community of technological curiosity.Role involves:

• Managing all assigned projects, including setting goals between clients and delivery teams, planning and executing of projects, conducting regular touch-points and coordinating account-related activities as needed
• Acting as Scrum Master to manage and track sprint progress against the overall project timeline
• Scheduling and facilitating short Daily Stand-Up meetings with the delivery team to track progress
• Facilitating agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Sprint Demos and Sprint Retrospectives
• Collaborating with client Product Owners and Caylent Architects to author technical User Stories
• Reviewing and approving weekly time submissions and monthly invoices
• Working closely with the team to ensure forecasting accuracy and budget management against deliverables
• Reporting on project scope and budget against Statements of Work (SOWs) weekly
• Proactively identifying and resolving project issues and roadblocks
• Championing project experience through excellent communication and relationship building amongst our customer stakeholders and Caylent’s delivery, sales and leadership teams
• Seeking and identifying additional growth opportunities during the project lifecycle to help retain and grow the Caylent client portfolio
• Mentoring new team members through the onboarding process
• Assisting in identifying best practices or gaps in the process and work to implement changes as needed

Requirements:

• 5 years (minimum) of experience in consulting or professional services managing large-scale, complex programs for Enterprise clients
• Prior management of technical engagements that consist of 5 or more people and over a $500,000 budget
• Experience and knowledge of project management disciplines, methodologies, and tools with the ability to build out client roadmaps
• Experience leading projects in an Agile/Waterfall environment using advanced tool sets (e.g. Jira, Monday, SmartSheet, Assembla)
• Experience in forecasting and budgeting management to drive accuracy in revenue projections to realization
• Ability to identify and manage risks as well as proven ability in successful Escalation management of Enterprise and Strategic or Complex clients
• Demonstrated ability to understand client's business needs, encompassing both short-term objectives and long-term goals to drive additional revenue or account growth
• Ability to interact with clients at both a business and technical level
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present to executives
• Ability to contribute processes, templates and standards around project management best practices
• Demonstrated ability to provide thought leadership in the areas of infrastructure modernization, application development and/or data engineering disciplines
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritize tasks, manage engagements and ensure they are executed with excellence
• Ability to act as a mentor to new team members as part of onboarding or provide coaching to peers as needed.

Caylent offers:

• 100% remote work
• Medical Insurance for you and eligible dependents
• Generous holidays and flexible PTO
• Competitive phantom equity
• Paid for exams and certifications
• Peer bonus awards
• State of the art laptop and tools
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Individual professional development plan
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Work with an amazing worldwide team and in an incredible corporate culture