Junior IT Project/Program Manager

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Job Summary:

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence. They are seeking an IT Project/Program Manager to collaborate with solution leads and delivery program managers, define project scopes and timelines, manage project budgets, and ensure quality standards are met throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the solution leads and the delivery program managers to understand the business proposal and the need for the project to articulate how the project impacts the strategic portfolio roadmap.

• Work with the project leaders to identify cross dependencies with other domains and work on identifying project collaborators and crafting the project charter establishing project structures like the RACI matrix and following PMO guidelines and good professional practices.

• Define scope and timelines and understand risks, impacts, and resource analysis.

• Partner with the solution manager and define the executive sponsor, core team, and project teams.

• Drive project kick-offs engaging with the product and delivery team in the blueprinting sessions and ensuring requirements are captured.

• Schedule and facilitate required meetings and draft the communications plans for the project.

• Partner with the project team you will identify the testing strategy and ensure the project budget is appropriately managed.

• Build the project plan, communications plan, and release plan and schedule and drive relevant discussions with executive leadership.

• Control the work of the project such that all scoped results are delivered and meet quality standards.

• Manage change and work into or out of the project to avoid goldplating or additional results not change-controlled into the scope.

• Closely supervise the timeline for development, SOE, ITC, and UAT and provide schedule or resource impacts as appropriate.

• Ensure appropriate data and/or metrics are used to evaluate the completeness and quality of project results.

• Provide status reports as indicated by the Project Management Office (PMO) and other governing bodies.

• Identify, document, and respond to risk with mitigation, contingency, or other risk response plans and raise risks and issues to the appropriate level and formality for resolution.

• Document, monitor, and resolve issues.

• Provide details of Hypercare, Launch, and cutover plans Ensure that project-level (or phase-level if appropriate) lessons learned are documented and distributed.

• Work with the teams for the necessary approvals for the project closure and ensure the vital artifacts are available for the governance team to close the project.

• Provide leadership and support within the team environment to set the right tone given the needs of the project and resolve any conflicts within the team.

• Define a project vision and gain the team's commitment to it.

• Provide specific performance feedback to team members and their managers.

• Participate, as requested, in the recruitment and placement of Micron staff and consultants into projects.

• Manage project resource allocations.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Master's degree in information systems, Engineering or related field

• 1 year of experience in the job offered or in an information technology-related occupation

• Project management and stakeholder management

• Schedule creation and tracking

• RACI identification and analysis

• Risk and issue management

• Gate Check activities

Company:

Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips. Founded in 1978, the company is headquartered in Boise, Idaho, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Public Company. Micron Technology has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.