Job Details Level Experienced Job Location Buffalo, NY – Buffalo, NY Remote Type Fully Remote Position Type Full Time Salary Range $145,000.00 – $210,000.00 Salary/year Job Shift Day Description Are you driven by the challenge of steering complex software projects from inception to completion? Do you excel in orchestrating cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations and drive business success? Is your expertise in managing timelines, resources, and stakeholder communications the key to your track record in successful project delivery? If you find satisfaction in aligning project objectives with client goals and ensuring seamless collaboration among engineers, designers, users, and other key players, then our senior software solutions project manager position may be the ideal position for you. In this role within the E Source Data Science division, you’ll take charge of the comprehensive project management life cycle of a large and complex business-to-business-to-customer (B2B2C) statewide data platform project. This project includes coordinating across utility, state, and user stakeholders to design, build, release, and support a large cloud-based energy data platform. You’ll work closely with a senior product manager, software engineering team, data engineering team, and various subject matter experts. E Source provides predictive data science, research and advisory, and solution services to help utilities make decisions that benefit their customers, their bottom line, and our planet. What you’ll do Client engagement: Serve as the primary contact for clients, ensuring their needs are met with the highest level of satisfaction. Actively engage in strategic discussions to align team delivery with project objectives. Agile leadership: Champion agile methodologies, facilitating standard ceremonies such as daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Drive process enhancements to optimize team performance and product delivery. Team coordination: Maintain a close partnership with the software engineering team to identify and resolve blockers. Coordinate across the development team, subcontractors, and subject matter experts to align requirements development with delivery. Quality assurance: Oversee the user acceptance testing process, ensuring that software releases meet requirements. Reporting and financial management: Manage comprehensive client reporting, including project status updates and financial invoicing. Risk mitigation: Implement effective risk management strategies to anticipate and mitigate potential project risks, ensuring timely and on-budget delivery. What will make you a good fit Minimum 10 years of experience in software project management, with a track record of successful project delivery. Ability to thrive in a high-pressure environment. Strong understanding of agile frameworks and software development life cycles. Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills both written and verbal. Conversational level of experience with software architecture and technology stack components. Strong analytical, management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or equivalent agile certification is highly desirable. Proficiency in Jira or a similar agile work management tool. Prefer to have at least five years of experience working in or for the utility sector. A little about E Source Utilities across the US and Canada face the same fundamental, day-to-day challenges: to ensure reliable service for every customer while maintaining and modernizing aging distribution networks and meeting regulatory requirements-all while keeping rates affordable. At the same time, climate change has created a common, universal call to action: to reduce our carbon impact, improve our environment, and ensure the prosperity of future generations. At E Source, we’re dedicated to helping every utility become a Sustainable Utility. That means doing the hard work it takes to achieve goals that often seem at odds with one another: Environmental responsibility: Decarbonizing operations, reducing emissions, eliminating water leaks, and finding efficiencies Reliability: Providing safe, continuous, and consistent service in the face of increasing volatility caused by climate change, including extreme weather, drought, and fire Equity: Making services and programs truly available to all, especially low- and moderate-income residential customers and small and midsize businesses who are often disproportionately impacted by societal events Financial stability: Ensuring a bottom line that affords capital and operational expenditures while enabling innovation and giving back to our communities E Source blends industry-leading research, predictive data science, and solution services to help utilities make better decisions to serve their customers, their bottom line, and our planet. With a commitment to practical innovation, we use more than three decades of utility-focused experience and our unique solution set to help our clients become a Sustainable Utility. Benefits We offer excellent insurance packages, including medical, dental, and vision plans; company-paid life insurance; company-paid long- and short-term disability insurance; and medical and dependent-care flexible spending plans. We provide a flexible time off (FTO) program; E Source employees can take as many paid days off per year as they need, with manager approval, while fulfilling their work obligations and ensuring proper coverage of their responsibilities. We offer flexible schedules, flexible work locations, and a paid parental leave benefit. We provide a 401(k) plan or registered retirement savings plan with a 3% employer match. The budgeted salary for this position is $145,000 to $210,000 USD + annual bonus up to 15% . Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience. This role will be 100% remote Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Employees of E Source are encouraged to apply. To foster a positive work environment and company culture, we support our employees in their career growth at E Source. Employees who are interested in similar job opportunities in the future should visit the E Source careers page for a listing of all open positions and contact Human Resources to express interest. We contact applicants directly via email using only our designated company email addresses with the domain of @esource.com. 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