IT Project Manager

Appex Innovation; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Appex Innovation is seeking an experienced Project Manager to coordinate highly integrated ITS initiatives. The role requires handling scope, schedule, and budget for multi-year projects while guiding cross-functional teams in a complex technical environment.

You will drive requirements gathering, create business and technical documents, oversee testing and deployment planning, and report progress to executives. Strong proficiency with MS Project and hybrid delivery methods is essential.

Qualifications

• 84+ months guiding large teams in IT projects.
• 84 months managing 3-5 simultaneous application development projects incl. COTS and in-house.
• Experience SSDLC and vendor management.
• Creating budgets, schedules, scope, status reports, and communication plans.
• Proficiency in MS Project and tracking across Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid.
• Experience with QA, UAT, defects and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Manage scope, schedule and budget of complex multi-year ITS projects.
• Guide multi-entity project teams and document requirements.
• Deliver project status presentations to executives.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

MS Project

Scrum

Waterfall/Hybrid

Budgeting

Requirements

Quality assurance

Change management

Vendor coordination

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

Plans, organizes and integrates cross-functional information technology projects that are significant in scope and impact.

Provide a list of the day-to-day tasks to be performed by the Selected Candidate:

• The position is for a highly skilled Project Manager working in a very integrated technical environment, within the SLA ITS. The team integrates multiple technologies, and the consultant will be required to work utilizing HBITS identified high demand tools in technologically advanced environments.
• The consultant will be requested to manage scope, schedule and budget of complex multi-year ITS projects, guiding multi[1]entity project teams in multiple projects, and be accountable for requirements gathering, creation of business and technical requirements gathering, creation of business and technical documentation, testing, and deployment planning, risk mitigation strategies, and project status reporting.
• The consultant will be responsible for managing staff oriented in matrix management techniques, negotiating with senior management on resource allocations and project responsibilities, and delivering project status presentations to executives.

Expert

Requested Qualifications:

84+ Months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.

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 and ensuring vendor delivers expeditious and thorough implementation of version upgrades, installations, configurations, custom development, triage, troubleshooting incidents, and testing, with projects adhering to the Secure System Development Life Cycle development (SSDLC).

84 months of experience as a Project Manager managing project execution and control, including creating and maintaining the following: project budgets, project schedules in MS Project, project scope, status reports, communication plans, project management plan, quality standards throughout the project management lifecycle from initiation to closeout

84 months of experience in developing and managing formal project schedules in a project tracking tool, such as Microsoft Project, including tracking progress and variances against baselines utilizing both Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid methodologies; using standard PM techniques (e.g., scrum sessions) to update project schedule; and presenting schedule/status updates to both ITS and client agency leaderships.

84 months of experience developing, writing, and managing detailed Scope Documents, reviewing project deliverables and managing the deliverables acceptance process and using the project scope and deliverable management process to manage the project change request process.

84 months experience with project quality planning, quality assurance, end-to-end system testing, quality control, user acceptance testing (UAT) defect and metrics management, and quality governance.

84 months of experience managing and leading multi-phased, high visibility projects, and 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.