IT Project Manager – PMP certificate

Valiant Technologies LLC; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

VALIANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC in Albany, NY is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead 3-5 simultaneous application development projects, including COTS and in-house work. You will ensure SSDLC compliance, manage vendor delivery, and oversee testing and issue resolution across the project lifecycle.

The role demands 7+ years of PM experience in IT, strong MS Project proficiency, budgeting, scheduling, and stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• 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 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 experience with developing, writing, and managing detailed Scope Documents and required project artifacts (Project Schedule/Plan, and Project Budget; 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 IT projects for State agencies. Regularly reported Executive staff, managers, and team members on project status and compliance, specializing in initiatives requiring strict adherence to ethical and legal mandates, and investigations into possible non-compliance.

Skills

Project management

MS Project

Budgeting

Stakeholder communication

Job description

• 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 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 and required project artifacts (Project Schedule/Plan, and Project Budget; 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 IT projects for State agencies. Regularly reported Executive staff, managers, and team members on project status and compliance, specializing in initiatives requiring strict adherence to ethical and legal mandates, and investigations into possible non-compliance.

VALIANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. VALIANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will VALIANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract