Program Manager

Program Manager 4/PM4IDEALFORCE has a contract position available immediately for a Program Manager 4/PM4 to join our customer in Columbus, OH. This is an ONSITE position. Hiring Manager would like to have all qualified candidates interview face to face or Skype.The BI Program Manager's primary responsibility will be to drive the entire Business intelligence (BI) effort from start to finish including coordinating the activities with system stakeholders and the implementation contractor. The selected Program Manager will ensure that the program is completed on schedule and that the final product meets the business, technical, quality, and contractual requirements.• Manage the planning, analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation effort for the BI portion of the program.• Be conversant with all contractual details and ensure vendor compliance throughout all phases of the program.• Understand governance and necessary approval workflows for all BI Project Deliverables and work products.• Develop and manage Business Intelligence (BI) project plan, scheduling, dependencies, risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources.• Develop and implement a simple, but multi-tiered decision making and issue resolution matrix.• Participate in the development of the requirements, principles, models and designs for the future-state, as well as the documentation (at the appropriate level of detail) of the current-state.• Facilitate the development of a data policy that outlines the appropriate data stewardship and data audit requirements, as well as the service-level agreements, to support the appropriate quality and use of information in business and IT processes.• Provide detailed review of deliverables for quality, technical accuracy and requirements compliance.• Manage and coordinate all vendor activities and ensure the State meets its required obligations.• Monitor program milestones and phases to ensure work progress is on schedule and any change orders are required, justified, approved, and reasonable.• Prepare detailed status reports which accurately report progress and highlight issue and risk items for review and escalation.• Perform quality reviews for all program work performed by State participants and the contractor.• Coordinate work with all team members and related teams in accordance with program timelines, milestones, phases, work requests target dates, and approved executable work packages.• Build and maintain relationships with program sponsors, stakeholders, subject matter experts, and contractor representatives.• Plan, schedule, lead, and monitor design, build, and implementation work tasks.• Anticipate risks and issues and proactively address them.• Develop and facilitate achievement of program service commitments and performance metrics.• Conduct evaluation reviews with stakeholders for approval upon program work completion.• Effectively work and communicate with all parties participating on the program.• Cooperate with, support the goals of, and execute direction with the State's executives and managers.• Lead and conduct meetings in accordance with high professional standards and effectiveness.• Protect the State's best interests in all work managed and performed.The ideal candidate will have the skills specified below:• Detailed understanding of processes outlined within the project lifecycle.• In-depth experience in implementing information solutions.• Proven data-modeling and information classification expertise at the enterprise level.• Experience with BI and data warehouse design and implementation.• General knowledge of application architecture and data modeling.• Knowledge of interfacing with various applications, management information systems, data structures, systems analysis and design, and programming languages.• Knowledge of Tableau and other BI tools.• Experience with process improvement and procedures.• Experience with management of large programs.• Experience identifying and resolving issues related to large programs.• Strong organizational skills.• Detail oriented.• Must have ability to work in a large team environment.Day-to-day responsibilities include but not limited to:• Facilitate the development of a data policy that outlines the appropriate data stewardship and data audit requirements, as well as the service-level agreements, to support the appropriate quality and use of information in business and IT processes.• Effectively coordinate tasks and communicate with contractor, program staff, and stakeholders.• Complete tasks identified in the program plan.• Oversee enhancement and development efforts.• Manage and track progress against the program plan. Take corrective actions if work tasks fall behind schedule.• Manage program scope and adhere to defined change control processes.• Capture and report program management metrics.• Modify program plan tasks when necessary.• Prepare status reports accurately depicting work progress.• Plan, organize, prioritize, and manage work tasks within and across multiple application teams.• Direct work teams in accordance with milestones, phases, work request target dates, and approved executable work packages.• Identify and mitigate program risks• Identify and resolve program issues.-At least 8 years' Business Intelligence experience including within the public sector-At least 6 years' experience with IBM Cognos and/or other BI tools-At least 4 years' experience managing multiple complex projects in a federated environment with:-Demonstrated leadership of multidiscipline, high-performance work teams/groups-Demonstrated high competency in execution of multiple initiatives-Experience working in a program management office (PMO) using project and portfolio management toolsAt least 3 years' experience hands-on expertise with Microsoft Office products including Project and VisioDemonstrable outstanding verbal and written communication skills.