IT Project Manager

TIYE CONSULTING; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TIYE CONSULTING is seeking an IT Project Manager to oversee planning, execution, and delegation of IT initiatives. You will apply SDLC and PMO methods to manage scope, schedule, and resources while coordinating with project teams, infrastructure, and vendors.

The role requires strong communication, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects in a matrixed environment. On-site work in Annapolis, MD with go-live support hours as needed.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with PMBOK and SDLC standards.
• Ability to analyze business process and translate to IT needs.
• Experience with data review and data migration activities.
• Comfort working in a matrixed organization with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Oversee planning, execution, and delegation of IT initiatives.
• Create and maintain the Project Plan and ensure alignment with goals.
• Monitor scope, cost, and schedule, and report performance metrics.
• Coordinate release of new software with project, infra, and vendors.
• Lead status meetings and communicate progress to stakeholders.
• Identify, document, and manage project risks and issues.
• Maintain risk register and develop mitigation or contingency plans.
• Prepare regular and ad hoc project reports.

Skills

SDLC knowledge

PMO templates

Communication

Data migration

PMBOK

Multi-project mgmt

Vendor coordination

Risk management

Job description

Job Brief

The IT Project Manager is charged with overseeing the process of planning, executing and delegating responsibilities around an organization’s information technology (IT) pursuits and goals. They should support business directives associated with specific initiatives and assign resources based on those goals.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining expert level knowledge and skills relative to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Project Management Office (PMO) templates
• Creating and maintaining the Project Plan
• Monitoring the ongoing project activities against the PPP and any project performance baselines
• Monitoring and controlling project scope, cost, and schedule
• Tracking all project performance against any performance metrics
• Working in partnership with the project team, infrastructure team, and project vendors to manage the release of new software
• Viewing stakeholders/business owners’ functional duties holistically to understand impact of dependent/inter-related business functions
• Chairing project and status meetings
• Managing project related issues by determining the source of those issues in system requirements, data, performance, workflow, business process, quality of the software or training
• Managing project related issues by determining issue impact as high, medium, or low and creating strategies for issue resolution
• Managing project related issues by assessing where the issue should be assigned
• Managing project related issues by consistently reviewing all updates to issues and ensuring that there is complete and thorough documentation and appropriate assignment
• Managing project related issues by controlling changes and recommending corrective or preventive actions
• Maintaining and updating risk register, including determining the probability and impact of all risks and developing risk contingency, mitigation, or avoidance options
• Ensuring each software release patch contains: vendor test results, JIS required configurations, and release notes
• Creating and reviewing integrated change control requests
• Creating and maintaining project artifacts as needed
• Preparing regular and ad hoc reports

Skills Required

• Work 40 hours per week Monday-Friday during core business hours (8:30am-5:30)
• Work a flexible schedule including evenings, nights, weekends and holidays during go-live work
• Provide on-call operational support as required outside normal operating hours during go-live work
• Excellent oral communication
• Detail oriented
• Skilled in business process analysis
• Skilled in data review and data migration
• Knowledge of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
• Knowledge and ability to utilize standards and guidelines relative to JIS Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Highly organized with the ability to keep track of multiple projects, requirements, action items, and following through to task closure
• Ability to work in a matrixed organization to align resources toward project deliverables
• Ability to work on multiple projects and objectives
• Ability to translate technical concepts into business terms
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with peers, end users and vendor development staff, all levels of management, and judicial personnel as necessary