Project Manager (Active PMP Required)

Cloud Analytics Technologies, LLC; Virginia; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloud Analytics Technologies is seeking a Senior Project Manager to plan, organize, and motivate diverse project teams across Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid projects for the Commonwealth’s IT initiatives.

You will coordinate vendors, manage budgets and schedules, and lead cross-functional teams while ensuring governance per VDOT/VITA practices. A minimum of 10 years’ experience and PMP certification are required.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience managing large projects.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Fluency with Microsoft Project, Visio, and Office.
• PMP certification required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate vendors and consultants, and IT staff in execution of IT projects and procurements.
• Coordinate and oversee development of proposals, SOWs, requirements, and RFP responses.
• Assist in team development while removing roadblocks to their work.
• Facilitate multi-disciplinary teams in plans, goals, and procedures for project completion.
• Oversee day-to-day project activities as required.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders including exec mgmt, vendors, sponsors, and technology leads.
• Set goals aligned with technical objectives and agency strategy.
• Track project progress across schedule, cost, and risk; communicate to team and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with leads and architects to incorporate best practices.
• Drive consistent delivery through lifecycle, including procurements, planning, resource allocation, risks, scope, and transitions to operations.
• Monitor third-party progress with metrics.
• Develop and maintain budgets, plans, tasks, schedules, risks, and status reports.
• Adhere to VDOT and VITA PM practices and governance.
• Demonstrate EQ in handling challenges and maintaining positive project culture.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Skills

Cloud SaaS projects

Stakeholder management

Agile & Waterfall

Excellent communication

Team leadership

Risk & schedule management

Requirements discovery

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Project

Visio

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for successfully planning, organizing, and motivating diverse project teams throughout all phases of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid projects, and for delivering projects that provide exceptional value to the Commonwealth's internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate vendors and consultants, and VDOT IT and business staff as assigned, in the execution of IT projects and related procurements.
• Coordinate and oversee the development of proposals, statement of work, statement of requirements and RFP responses.
• Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and removing roadblocks to their work.
• Facilitate multi-disciplinary teams in the development of plans, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures for completion of a project.
• Oversee and manage execution and/or coordination of day-to-day project activities as required.
• Manage working relationships with key stakeholders, including executive management, business management, vendors, project sponsors, suppliers, and technology management.
• Set project goals that are consistent with technical objectives and the agency’s overall technology strategy.
• Track and communicate a project's progress from a schedule, cost, and risk perspective to the project team, customers, and project stakeholders.
• Collaborate with technology leads and solution architects to incorporate agency best practices into project plans.
• Drive consistent project delivery through the entire project lifecycle, including, execution of procurements, definition of project plans, resource allocation, management of project risks, scope, and schedule, delivery of value, and well-ordered transitions to operations.
• Monitor progress by third-party vendors and define and measure their progress with metrics.
• Develop and maintain project budget, plans, task lists, schedules, risks, and status, to include resource allocation and schedules.
• Adhere to VDOT and VITA project management practices and governance requirements.
• Exhibit significant emotional quotient (EQ) in handling project challenges and maintain a positive project culture in line with VDOT’s mission and shared values.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing cloud hosted SaaS implementation projects.
• Strong experience leading the business and IT resources through the discovery and documentation of business and technical requirements in request for proposal and statement of requirement formats.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills for collaborating and team building.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to simplify and briefly, succinctly communicate complex issues to multiple audiences.
• Ability to lead others to implement new approaches, systems, structures, and methods.
• Ability to define and balance the competing demands for quality, scope, schedule, and cost.
• Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff.
• Ability to analyze and document system processes.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle models.
• Exceptional knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall project management principles and practices. In addition, the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a particular project and business environment.
• Knowledge of process engineering and re-engineering techniques and practices.

Qualifications

• The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience managing large projects and a bachelor's degree.
• Fluency in Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project, Visio, and Office required.
• PMP Certification through PMI

Preferred

• Experience with VITA’s Commonwealth Technology Portfolio (CTP) system and ECOS process is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Project Management Office methodologies and practices is strongly preferred.
• Experience with the core Commonwealth IT procurement processes (RFP, VITA Statewide Contract, and CAI SOW) is preferred.

CLOUD ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGIES 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. CLOUD ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGIES 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 CLOUD ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGIES 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