Overview
We are seeking a full-time Senior Project Manager IT (Enterprise Apps/Oracle/Big Data) n our Olathe, KS location. In this role, you will be responsible for managing large projects including development and maintenance of project plans and reporting of project status.
Essential Functions
- Develops and maintains complex project plans which involve tasks of multiple participants and stakeholders
- Drives accountability from project team members and serves as a subject matter expert in project management process improvements
- Provides project status and summary to wide audiences including senior management
- Identifies interdependencies in programs and serves as the go to person for project management
- Leads project management process improvement efforts
- Participates in project definition activities including feature analysis and system tradeoffs
- Provides reliable solutions to a wide range of difficult problems including evaluation of new technologies to improve existing functions
- Serves as a mentor to less experienced Project Managers (Project Manager 1 & 2)
- Understands business impacts of issues and how they relate to IT owned solutions
- Develops and maintains all project documentation
- Motivates and drives accountability from all project team members, including the coordination of resources assigned to projects for which he/she is responsible without direct authority and resolves conflicts with little assistance
- Contributes to advanced technical research on new technologies and determining feasibility of team or functional goals/objectives
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Business or related field AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience with projects medium to large in complexity
- Demonstrates mastery of project management principles and adapts practices to meet rapidly changing business climates and needs
- Demonstrated experience with a proven track record in successful implementation of technology solutions
- Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Must be positive, detail oriented, organized, team oriented and a driven problem solver, multi-tasker, and self-starter with the ability to prioritize and lead projects in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment
- Demonstrated excellent time management and follow-up skills
Desired Qualifications
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure and Security concepts and processes
- Experience managing project dependencies and risks across diverse technical areas including database and enterprise application technologies, application development, infrastructure, and cloud platforms.
- Experience coordinating project plans and deliverables with IT project managers to ensure alignment across application, data, and platform workstreams.
- Experience facilitating communication between global technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring shared understanding of objectives, timelines, and deliverables.
- Strong knowledge of project management best practices across both Agile Scrum and traditional methodologies.
- Familiarity with containerized platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and modern big data technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Kafka, ElasticSearch), enabling effective collaboration with technical leads and architects.
- Experience delivering complex IT projects involving ERP (Oracle eBusiness Suite), enterprise applications, and/or big data technologies; leading cross-functional teams including application & database administrators, application analysts and developers.
- Experience with and understanding of ERP/EDI concepts and processes
- Familiarity with database systems and large scale application lifecycle management
- Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Payment Card Industry (PCI), Information Technology Information Library (ITIL), or other regulatory issues
- Experience successfully coordinating large scale globally based projects to move, add, and/or change aforementioned underlying technologies
Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.
This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits
