Enterprise Systems Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Enterprise Systems Project Manager
Job Code: CoP 166954
Client: City of Phoenix
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite – Local Candidates Only
Contract Duration: Until April 25, 2027
Work Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM (40 hours/week)
Work Location: 200 W Washington St, Phoenix, AZ 85003
Closing Date: October 15, 2026, at 4:00 PM

Position Overview
The City of Phoenix is seeking a Junior Enterprise Systems Upgrade Project Manager to lead a multi-phase upgrade of a specialized enterprise software platform. This role involves coordinating technical teams, business stakeholders, and software vendors to manage complex system migrations, data model transitions, and system integrations across interconnected applications.

The ideal candidate will have experience managing enterprise system upgrades, structured data transformation, technical workstreams, project risks, testing, and deployment activities.

Required Skills

• Enterprise System Migration: Experience managing enterprise system upgrades or transitions involving complex data structures and multiple deployment environments.

• Structured Data Transformation: Experience coordinating schema changes, rule-based validation, and data model modernization.

• Technical Project Leadership: Ability to guide technical subject matter experts (SMEs), interpret technical requirements, and develop actionable project plans.

• Systems Integration and Workflow Awareness: Understanding of integrations between enterprise systems, downstream applications, reporting tools, and operational workflows.

• Vendor-Supported Implementations: Experience coordinating software vendors and professional services teams during structured implementations.

• Stakeholder Communication: Strong communication, cross-department coordination, stakeholder engagement, and executive-level reporting skills.

• Risk-Based Project Management: Ability to identify, assess, track, and mitigate project risks and dependencies.

Preferred Skills

• Multi-Environment Deployment Pipelines: Experience with development, testing, and production environments and structured promotion workflows.

• Complex Data Validation Frameworks: Familiarity with systems that use topological, connectivity-based, or rule-based validation.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Platform Upgrades: Manage planning, execution, and delivery of major upgrades to mission-critical enterprise systems with multiple dependent applications.

• Data Model Transition: Coordinate technical SMEs through migrations from legacy data models to modern, rules-based models, ensuring data validation, quality control, and documentation.

• System Integration Management: Identify upstream and downstream system impacts, maintain interface continuity, and coordinate changes to workflows, APIs, and automated processes.

• Vendor Coordination: Serve as the primary liaison with software vendors and professional services teams, tracking deliverables, risks, and project alignment.

• Technical Workstream Leadership: Coordinate configuration, testing, deployment, data migration, environment setup, and system validation across technical teams.

• Change Management: Support adoption of new tools, workflows, and data structures through training, communication, and stakeholder readiness activities.

• Risk and Dependency Tracking: Maintain risk registers, monitor cross-team dependencies, and proactively escalate issues.

• Testing and Quality Assurance: Oversee functional testing, regression testing, and validation of new configurations and data structures.

• Documentation and Reporting: Prepare project schedules, status reports, decision logs, migration documentation, and other project artifacts.