Project Manager

Sligo Software Solutions; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Sligo Software Solutions, Inc. is seeking an experienced Project Manager for a 30-month onsite engagement in Albany, NY.

The role focuses on planning, coordinating, and delivering complex IT projects, including application development, vendor software implementations, and infrastructure initiatives. The ideal candidate brings 15+ years of project management experience, strong tracking of scope, schedule, and budget, and proven ability to lead diverse teams in a high-stakes environment, including

Qualifications

• 84 months experience creating project management scopes, business cases, and/or project plans.
• 84 months experience in project status reporting to all levels of stakeholders.
• 84 months experience creating meeting agendas and minutes for complex cross-functional projects.
• 84 months experience in managing cross-functional IT projects with varied stakeholders including executives.
• 60 months experience as a Project Manager in state or federal government environments.
• 60 months experience managing teams of 15+ project participants and negotiating priorities.

Responsibilities

• Guide project teams and maintain project documentation including scope, schedule, and communication plans.
• Mentor and coordinate task completion, handle status reporting and risk identification/mitigation.
• Communicate project status to internal stakeholders, project team and executive staff.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans with milestones and rollout plans.
• Schedule and facilitate project meetings across matrixed teams to secure resources and timelines.
• Identify critical path, contingencies, and perform risk monitoring and mitigation planning.

Job description

Greetings from Sligo Software Solutions, Inc. !! SLIGO is a Software Development & IT Consulting company. We have around 100+ IT associates working with our esteemed clients across several domains such as IT, Banking, Healthcare, and Government. We have an urgent requirement for Project Manager position with our client.

Role:

Project Manager

Location: Albany, NY

Duration: 30 Months

Description

The expert Project Manager position will be responsible for planning, organizing, and managing cross-functional and highly complex information technology projects such as variety of application development, vendor software implementation and/or technology infrastructure projects.

Duties

• Guide project teams and maintain the necessary project documents including scope, schedule, communication plan, business requirements, business rules, and other necessary project documentation. Mentor and coordinate task completion by project team members. Handling project status reporting and issues/risk identification and mitigation.
• Completing status reports, status briefing, risk and issue identification and mitigation.
• Communication of project status and updates at all levels of organization, with internal stakeholders, project team and executive staff.
• Development and maintenance of detailed project plan with milestones and detailed roll out plan.
• Scheduling and facilitating project meetings with various stakeholders completion of IT projects by working across project team boundaries in a matrix environment to secure resources, resolve issues and set project timeline and milestones.
• Identification and maintenance of critical path and contingencies.
• Risk monitoring, control and mitigation planning.
• Resource allocation estimating and reporting.
• Mentoring of project teams to implement a new product.
• Facilitating decision making between team members to clarify business and technical requirements which cross project team boundaries.
• Planning and support during training and transition .

Mandatory Requirements

• Experience (15+ Years)
• Plans, organizes and integrates cross-functional information technology projects that are significant in scope and impact.

Requirements

• This is an 100% Onsite.
• 84 months experience in the creation of project management scopes, business cases, and/or project plans as well as utilization of project management methodologies for managing scope, schedule, and quality.
• 84 months of experience in project status reporting to all levels of stakeholders, executives, management, and project resource teams.
• 84 months experience in the creation of meeting agendas, meeting minutes, and project communications for complex cross functional projects.
• 84 months of experience in Project Management of complex, cross-functional, multi-organization information technology projects with a variety of key project stakeholders including exective level. Experience should include a variety of application development, vendor software implementation and/or technology infrastructure projects.
• 60 months experience as a Project Manager in a state or federal government environment.
• 60 months experience managing projects with a team size of 15 or more project participants that required negotiating priorities and resolving conflicts among team members.
• R sum
• Copy of Candidate Identification (i.e., Driver's License/Green Card/Visa and Passport if applicable)
• Any documents referenced in the above Requested Qualifications (i.e., professional certifications, degrees, etc.)