About the Role
Plans, organizes, and integrates cross-functional information technology projects that are significant in scope and impact. This role involves managing scope, schedule, and budget for complex multi-year ITS projects, guiding multi-entity project teams, and being accountable for various project lifecycle phases.
Responsibilities
- Manage scope, schedule, and budget of complex multi-year ITS projects.
- Guide multi-entity project teams in multiple projects.
- Gather requirements and create business and technical documentation.
- Oversee testing and deployment planning.
- Develop risk mitigation strategies.
- Report project status to executives.
- Manage staff using matrix management techniques.
- Negotiate resource allocations and project responsibilities with senior management.
- Deliver project status presentations to executives.
- Manage project execution and control, including creating and maintaining project budgets, schedules, scope, status reports, communication plans, and project management plans.
- Develop and manage formal project schedules in a project tracking tool, such as Microsoft Project.
- Track progress and variances against baselines utilizing Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid methodologies.
- Use standard PM techniques (e.g., scrum sessions) to update project schedules.
- Present schedule/status updates to ITS and client agency leaderships.
- Develop, write, and manage detailed Scope Documents.
- Review project deliverables and manage the deliverables acceptance process.
- Manage the project change request process using project scope and deliverable management processes.
- Manage project quality planning, quality assurance, end-to-end system testing, quality control, UAT defect and metrics management, and quality governance.
- Manage and lead multi-phased, high visibility projects.
- Report to the highest-level government IT projects in a State or Federal Agency.
- Implement business process re-engineering and organizational change management projects.
Requirements
- 84 months of experience as a Project Manager managing 3-5 simultaneous application development projects that include Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) projects and/or in-house.
- Ensure vendor delivers expeditious and thorough implementation of version upgrades, installations, configurations, custom development, triage, troubleshooting incidents, and testing.
- Ensure projects adhere to the Secure System Development Life Cycle development (SSDLC).
- 84 months of experience as a Project Manager managing project execution and control.
- 84 months of experience in developing and managing formal project schedules in a project tracking tool, such as Microsoft Project.
- 84 months of experience managing project progress and variances against baselines utilizing Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid methodologies.
- 84 months of experience developing, writing, and managing detailed Scope Documents.
- 84 months experience with project quality planning, quality assurance, end-to-end system testing, quality control, UAT defect and metrics management, and quality governance.
- 84 months of experience managing and leading multi-phased, high visibility projects.
- 84 months of experience reporting to the highest-level government IT projects in a State or Federal Agency, preferably involving licensing projects.
- 36 months of post PMP project management experience implementing business process re-engineering and organizational change management projects.
Skills
- Project Management
- Application Development
- Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS)
- Version Upgrades
- Installations
- Configurations
- Custom Development
- Triage
- Troubleshooting Incidents
- Testing
- Secure System Development Life Cycle (SSDLC)
- Project Execution and Control
- MS Project
- Waterfall Methodology
- Agile Methodology
- Hybrid Methodologies
- Scrum Sessions
- Scope Documents
- Deliverables Acceptance Process
- Project Change Request Process
- Quality Planning
- Quality Assurance
- End-to-End System Testing
- Quality Control
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Defect Management
- Metrics Management
- Quality Governance
- Business Process Re-engineering
- Organizational Change Management
Location
- Albany, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
- In-Person
Experience Level
- Expert
- 84+ Months
