Project Manager 4

Senior Technical Project Manager

The client is seeking a senior technical Project Manager to manage and deliver complex IT Project(s) with multiple teams and work streams coordinated to an aggressive delivery schedule.

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.

The selected candidate will:

• 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 VDOT and VITA project management practices and governance requirements.
• Coordinate with VDOT and VITA 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.

Skills:

• Experience managing large MultiStream projects valued at $10M or greater each – Required – 10 Years
• Experience in IT infrastructure delivery (Networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning) – Required – 10 Years
• Experience in both Scaled Agile and Waterfall Project Management – Required – 10 Years
• PMP Certification – Required
• VITA Certification – Highly desired
• Agile Scrum Master Certification – Desired
• SAFe® Scrum Master Certification – Desired
• Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server) – Required – 10 Years
• Experience managing projects with high visibility and high stakes – Required – 10 Years
• Experience managing projects that had to coordinate with at least one external team – Required – 10 Years
• Experience managing a project as part of a larger program and under PMO governance – Required – 10 Years
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Systems Engineering, Management Information Systems, Project Management or Finance/Business – Required – 4 Years