Ideal Candidate Profile: Seeking a Sr.Technical Project Manager to manage and deliver complex IT Project(s) with multiple teams and work streams coordinated to an aggressive delivery schedule.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
Project Manager is responsible for the outcome of the assigned projects. The Project Manager leads the team through the Commonwealth Standard for Project Management for successful completion of the project phases:
Preselect
Initiation
Planning
Execution and Control
Closeout.
Serve as a hands-on technical project manager with development staff and business groups
Coordinate and communicate with Information Technology Division management and staff to coordinate work staff and resourcing.
Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff
Facilitate multi-functional technical team collaboration.
Collaborate with vendors, consultants, and contractors in the execution of projects, including contract management, and work with procurement office(s).
Adhere to client and VITA project management practices and governance requirements.
Coordinate with client project management offices.
Maintain project budget, plans, tasks, schedules, risks, and status and disseminate information to team members and customers as defined in the communication plan.
Ensure documentation of requirements and use cases, facilitate design workshops for assigned project.
Ensure preparation of test objectives, test plans and test cases for assigned project.
Provide the management of project milestones and deliverables for on-time and on-budget delivery.
Define, measure, and clearly communicate progress with project metrics.
Support system and application training efforts.
Required Skills & Experience
PMP Certification
Experience managing large MultiStream projects valued at $10M or greater each
Experience in IT infrastructure delivery (Networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning)
Experience in both Scaled Agile and Waterfall Project Management
Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)
Experience managing projects with high visibility and high stakes
Experience managing projects that had to coordinate with at least one external team.
Experience managing a project as part of a larger program and under PMO governance.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Systems Engineering, Management Information Systems, Project Management or Finance/Business
Preferred
VITA Certification
Agile Scrum Master Certification
SAFe Scrum Master Certification