United States, Georgia, Atlanta
Information Technology
17-Mar-2023
Ref #: 20121
How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)
Responsibilities include developing, managing, and tracking IT projects, from inception to implementation and support transition. Responsibilities include forecasting, managing, tracking, and reporting project progress, issues, budget, and scope changes to achieve successful project completion, on-time, and within budget. Other requirements include managing communications and expectations of clients, sponsors, users, team, contractors and the enterprise while ensuring project adherence to established Delta project methodologies and standards, including developing resource plans, risk assessments, project plans, checkpoint reviews, and other deliverables as the project requires.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist Delta leaders in identifying the proper scope for future projects.
- Develop an initial plan to clearly define the project requirements and determine an appropriate solution design. Oversee the project team as the requirements are defined and the design identified.
- Develop a detailed estimate of the level of effort, schedule and budget necessary to successfully develop and deliver a solution meeting the requirements and quality expectations.
- Communicate the requirements, solution design, estimates, and identified risks to project sponsors for their awareness and approval.
- Use a process that is well communicated and understood for managing all requested changes to the project.
- Motivate and manage project efforts of team members, resolve conflicts, and provide performance feedback to technology group managers.
- Ensure project team's adherence to established Delta project methodologies and standards.
- Create and manage all of the accepted Delta project management deliverables including the project charter, project plan, budget, resource plan, risk plan, support plan, implementation plan and other deliverables as required.
- Track, manage, and adjust the original plan as necessary to ensure success.
- Provide regular status reports to stakeholders, sponsors, the enterprise, and others involved in the project.
- Escalate problems as necessary to ensure awareness and assistance with resolution.
- Effectively coordinate with the various technology, business, and vendor teams to ensure the project's success.
- Meet the project requirements by delivering a quality solution, on time and within the planned budget.
- May perform other duties as assigned.
What You Need To Succeed (minimum Qualifications)
- Associates or Bachelor's degree, or related experience in information technology IT or project management. The ideal candidate will have the above plus at least 2-3 years of broad-base experience in IT project management or a comparable field.
- Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for U.S.-based job, if not currently employed by Delta Air Lines, Inc.
- Demonstrates that privacy is a priority when handling personal data.
- Embraces a diverse set of people, thinking and styles.
- Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (preferred Qualifications)
- Preferred qualifications or skills include: good verbal and written communication, project management, application/system development, project deployment, requirements analysis & management, and quality assurance.
- Previous airline industry and ServiceNow experience a plus.
Attributes:
- Communication Skills - The ability to communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of employees and management, capable of successful formal and informal communication, speaks and writes clearly and understandably at the right level.
- Integrity and Trust - Involves being widely trusted, being seen as a direct, truthful individual, can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner, keeps confidences, admits mistakes, and doesn't misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.
- Teamwork - Involves working well in a collaborative setting, supporting work team by volunteering forb and completing assignments, acting as a positive team member by contributing to discussions, developing and maintaining both formal and informal relationships enterprise-wide, defines success in terms of the entire team through mentoring and knowledge transfer.
- Technical Expertise - Involves demonstrating a commitment to increasing knowledge and skills in current technical/functional area, keeping up to date on technical developments, staying informed as to industry practices, knowing how to apply relevant technical processes to appropriate business needs.
- Courageous Leadership - Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said, provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others, faces up to people problems on any person or situation quickly and directly, and is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
- Customer Focus - Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal/external customers, gets customer information and uses it for improvements, acts with the customer in mind, establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Dedication - Involves demonstrating a desire to dedicate time and energy to accomplish goals, tasks, assignments, etc. Will do what it takes to get things done.
- Flexibility - Is open to change, enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks, anticipates and adjusts to problems and roadblocks, is not thrown off when things change, can flex to future consequences and trends appropriately.
- Task Management - Delivers quality work on time, translates planning into action by following applicable established procedures or methodologies, proactively monitors and controls task status by collecting and analyzing task data to anticipate and address barriers, appropriately communicates and resolves or escalates any problems that arise.