Project Manager III – Software Implementation & Rollout

FUSTIS LLC; Wisconsin; Remote; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Wisconsin Department of Health Services is seeking a Project Manager III to lead large-scale software implementation and rollout initiatives within the Office of Health Informatics. The role requires extensive experience in planning, coordination, testing, and deployment across multiple teams.

You will drive governance, risk management, and change management, ensuring regulatory compliance and successful operational handoff to ongoing support.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience in software implementation and project delivery.
• Proven ability to lead complex multi-stakeholder projects.
• Experience with governance, risk management, and change management.

Responsibilities

• Lead software implementation and rollout projects from initiation to deployment.
• Develop charters, plans, budgets, and delivery roadmaps.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Manage risks, issues, and dependencies with clear reporting.
• Oversee testing, UAT, data migration, and operational handoff.
• Communicate progress to leadership and manage adoption readiness.

Skills

Software implementation

Rollout management

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Change management

Project governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

PMP certification

Tools

MS Project

MS Teams

Jira

Job description

Hiring: Project Manager III – Software Implementation & Rollout

Location: Wisconsin (100% Remote) (Local Candidate Required)

Pay Rate: $65–$75/hr on C2C

Eligibility : USC, GC-EAD and H4-EAD only (No H1B)

Experience : 10-12 years

Interview : Two virtual interview rounds via Microsoft Teams.

Position Overview

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is seeking an experienced Project Manager III to lead complex software implementation, rollout, and modernization initiatives within the Division of Public Health’s Office of Health Informatics.

The selected candidate will manage projects throughout the complete delivery lifecycle, from planning and requirements gathering through testing, deployment, stabilization, and transition to operations. This role requires strong project management, stakeholder communication, cross-functional leadership, and change management skills.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing large-scale software implementations, coordinating internal teams and vendors, maintaining project controls, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring successful deployment and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex software implementation and rollout projects from initiation through deployment, stabilization, and operational handoff.
• Develop and maintain project charters, integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and delivery roadmaps.
• Manage project scope, deliverables, timelines, dependencies, risks, issues, assumptions, and mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, technical staff, business stakeholders, vendors, contractors, and external partners.
• Lead requirements gathering, discovery sessions, business-process analysis, and project workgroup meetings.
• Oversee implementation readiness, system integration, data conversion, data migration, testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and deployment planning.
• Develop stakeholder communication plans, coordinate training activities, and manage organizational change and adoption readiness.
• Prepare executive-level status reports, project updates, recommendations, decision logs, and risk assessments.
• Ensure projects meet applicable privacy, security, confidentiality, accessibility, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Coordinate with legal, procurement, security, privacy, and data-governance teams to obtain necessary approvals before implementation.
• Manage vendor and consultant performance against contracts, statements of work, schedules, service levels, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery processes, data management, reporting, operational efficiency, and service outcomes.
• Monitor project performance, evaluate outcomes, and support continuous improvement and transition to ongoing operations.

Required Qualifications

Candidates must have 10+ years of experience in each of the following four areas:

• Software Implementation & Rollout Management
• Experience managing software implementation and deployment activities.
• Expertise in deployment planning, implementation readiness, testing, stabilization, and transition to operations.
• Project Controls & Governance
• Experience managing integrated project plans, schedules, dependencies, risks, issues, and project status reporting.
• Ability to manage scope, resources, deliverables, decisions, and competing priorities across multiple workstreams.
• Stakeholder Communication & Coordination
• Experience communicating project progress, risks, decisions, and business impacts to leadership and affected stakeholders.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills for technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Experience coordinating internal teams, vendors, subject-matter experts, and external partners.
• Ability to resolve complex issues, facilitate decisions, manage escalations, and maintain alignment across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with organizational change management, communications planning, training coordination, and adoption readiness.
• Experience managing vendor-delivered software implementations or large-scale public-sector projects.
• Experience working with healthcare, public health, government, or other regulated programs.
• Familiarity with data governance, data quality, data integration, migration, reporting, privacy, and information security.
• PMP certification or equivalent project management training.
• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business, Information Technology, Public Administration, or a related field. Equivalent education and substantial relevant experience may also be considered.