Senior Project Manager (Modern Work Delivery Lead)

** This is an opportunity to join our team of top-notch modern work engineers working closely together on interesting projects for our clients. This position is fully remote (indefinitely). **

Emergent Software is looking for a Project Manager, called Delivery Lead here at Emergent, who is smart and passionate about delivering business value with Microsoft products. A qualified candidate has a strong grasp of project and client management methodologies and experience managing multiple projects at once. This 100% remote position is for self-starters with good communication skills, work ethic, and the ability to lead projects focused on the adoption of Microsoft Copilot, Purview, Intune, Entra, and standard M365 offerings.

Highlights & Benefits of working at Emergent Software

• Work closely with other talented engineers and team members. Our vetting process means you can count on your team members to know what they are talking about.
• Work from home or work remotely from anywhere you want
• Flexible work schedule meaning you can work regular hours or whenever you work best
• Work-life balance is essential and highly valued at Emergent Software. If you choose to work more than 40 hours, you’ll be compensated for the extra work!
• Work on interesting projects solving complex business problems with software solutions.
• 100 hours per year to focus on your professional development. We invest in your growth!
• Profit sharing bonus means as we’re successful, you’re successful
• Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, FSA, disability, life insurance, and paid parental leave

Primary Duties

• Project Management: Ensure alignment on deliverables required to successfully complete project engagement, assign and track tasks and communicate status. Ensure considerations such as end user communication and risk management throughout the engagement.
• Schedule Management: Update resource schedules / allocations, meet with team members to ensure balance between demand and capacity, review timecard actuals vs planned.
• Budget Management: Track cost (ETC/EAC), forecast/re-estimate spend throughout project, manage cost variance, report overall valuation of the project progress and execution, manage resources and time tracking/reporting tools.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Manage stakeholder relationships and client engagement with direct support from client account managers.
• Communications: Facilitate all project meetings, create/update/distribute project documentation, send regular (weekly or bi-weekly) status updates to stakeholders per PMO policy, contribute to executive-level dashboards, participate in monthly/quarterly business reviews.
• Change Control: Document change control items per the standard PMO process & best practices, tracking impact to timeline, scope, resources, or cost.
• Risk & Quality Management: Identify, manage, mitigate, and communicate issues and risks throughout the project.
• DevOps & Production Support Process Adherence: Ensure your team adheres to DevOps and Production Support policies that include standard incident management, release management, build management, deploy management, change management and production support procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure offerings
• Solid understanding of traditional project management concepts and practices
• 4+ year track record of successfully managing implementation projects
• 3+ years’ experience with requirements gathering / documentation
• Sufficient level of technical background enabling you to provide credible guidance to engineering teams and accurately evaluate complex project risks and issues
• Familiarity with Microsoft Dev Ops and/or other work organization tools (Jira, Trello, Basecamp, Rally)
• Experience operating as the liaison between engineering teams and users, driving delivery in the right direction
• Ability to thrive on a small team in a fast-paced environment while juggling a variety of projects and wearing multiple hats
• Exemplary problem-solving ability & enthusiasm
• Strong technical writing, verbal communication, and presentation skills are a must
• Experiencing managing a wide breadth of priorities, including strong organization skills and ability to prioritize

Nice to Have Experience

• Previous consulting experience
• Experience building solutions with Microsoft technologies such as .NET, SQL Server, Azure, and Office 365

Our Vetting Process

At Emergent Software, we work hard to find the best people capable of delivering high quality services to our clients. If you think you’re one of those, please understand that the effort put into this by people like yourself helps us be successful in surrounding you with other top-notch people. Here are the steps of our vetting process for this position:

1. Application (5 minutes)
2. Online Assessment (40-50 minutes)
3. Initial Phone Interview (30-45 minutes)
4. Technology Knowledge Assessment Interview (20-30 minutes)
5. Final Interview (60-90 minutes)
6. Job Offer

Benefits Package Details

• Medical Insurance: up to 80% of your monthly medical premium (HSA options available)
• HSA Contribution: up to $144/month
• Dental & Vision Insurance: up to 50% of your monthly dental and vision premium costs
• 401(k) plan: company match up to 4% of salary
• Profit sharing bonus: up to 15% of salary paid quarterly
• Extra compensation: get paid extra for work over 40 hours/week
• Employee referral & customer referral bonuses
• Flex Spending Account (FSA) for Dependent Care & Healthcare Costs
• Dependent Care FSA Contribution: $90/month
• Short Term Disability: $500/week for 12 weeks
• Long Term Disability: up to $6,000/month
• Group term life and AD&D insurance: $50k
• PTO, standard holidays, 2 floating holidays
• Paid parental leave: 2 weeks
• Staff development program: 100 hours/year plus training costs

About Emergent Software

Emergent Software is a fast-growing software development, cloud consulting, and data engineering company serving clients across the country. We are regularly adding to our team of talented software engineers, cloud architects, data engineers, UX designers, technical product owners and more who can help us deliver high quality services for our clients.

We are a remote-first company
Since our inception, we've embraced a remote-friendly culture, promoting work flexibility beyond the norm. When the pandemic struck in 2020, our transition to fully remote work was seamless—just a matter of cleaning out the fridge. Recognizing an opportunity, we adopted a remote-first approach and began hiring talent from anywhere. We continue to offer our signature Minnesota-nice, Midwest-friendly attitude, ensuring everyone feels valued, whether or not they're familiar with the skyway system.

Your career grows with us
Working with talented people on interesting projects creates an engaging environment for software development enthusiasts. By working directly with our experienced team, participating in our staff development program, and solving complex problems across a variety of projects, you’ll find numerous opportunities for long-term career growth.

At Emergent Software, your ideas will be heard, you will grow exponentially as a master of your craft, and you will enjoy working other dedicated team members to deliver software solutions for our clients.

Check out what others say
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In this role, you will lead projects focused on the adoption of Microsoft Copilot, Purview, Intune, Entra, and standard M365 offerings. See the job description for requirements.