Project Manager with Govt Exp

Sligo Software Solutions Inc.; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sligo Software Solutions Inc. is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead OASAS Secure Software Development Lifecycle projects and related IT infrastructure efforts in a fast-paced, government environment.

You will plan, coordinate, and report on cross-functional initiatives, manage budgets and schedules, and ensure compliance with NYS directives. PMP certification and 15+ years of managing complex IT projects are required; onsite work in Albany, NY.

Qualifications

• Experience (15+ years) managing significant IT projects.
• Plans, organizes and integrates cross-functional information technology projects that are significant in scope and impact.
• PMI PMP certification and experience with state government projects are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Act as facilitator and primary project manager for projects related to OASAS Business efforts.
• Use project management methodology and documentation to manage projects. Plan and facilitate all required project and technical meetings including demonstrations of application development progress.
• Provide Agendas and Distribute Meeting Minutes for all Project Management Meetings.
• Use project management tools, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and Visio to delegate staff assignments, track project status and determine time estimates.
• Provide regular status reports detailing project metrics, progress, and mitigation strategies underway to address concerns.
• Coordinate and Partner with Project Resources including Technical Lead, Developers and Business Analysts.
• Coordinate the development of test plans and testing with the Project Technical Lead.
• Adhere to all NYS Project Management directives and processes.
• Leverage NYS ITSM to document project status/progress, and ensure project team members submit requests for services from other ITS service owners as necessary to fulfill project requirements.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Planning and scheduling

SDLC / IT governance

Education

PMI PMP Certification

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Microsoft Project

Visio

Excel

MS Office

Job description

Description

Provide project management related tasks to OASAS Secure Software Development Lifecycle Projects (like IDS, IDC). IT projects supporting mission critical business processes, and Infrastructure projects, and others as needed.

Duties

• Act as facilitator and primary project manager for projects related to OASAS Business efforts.
• Use project management methodology and documentation to manage projects. Plan and facilitate all required project and technical meetings including demonstrations of application development progress.
• Provide Agendas and Distribute Meeting Minutes for all Project Management Meetings.
• Use project management tools, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and Visio to delegate staff assignments, track project status and determine time estimates.
• Provide regular status reports detailing project metrics, progress, and mitigation strategies underway to address concerns.
• Coordinate and Partner with Project Resources including Technical Lead, Developers and Business Analysts.
• Coordinate the development of test plans and testing with the Project Technical Lead.
• Adhere to all NYS Project Management directives and processes.
• Leverage NYS ITSM to document project status/progress, and ensure project team members submit requests for services from other ITS service owners as necessary to fulfill project requirements.

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 as a Project Manager, managing project execution and control, including maintaining project budgets, Microsoft project schedules, scope, requirements, status reports, communication plans, and quality standards.
• 84 Months Experience as a Lead Project Manager using the Secure Software Development Lifecycle including the use of Planning, Analysis, Design & Development, Implementation, Testing and Release to Production activities for new software implementations.
• 60 Months Experience as a Project Manager, managing infrastructure projects which require network connectivity (such as building management systems, medication distribution systems, temperature monitoring systems, VOIP, Wireless, and other systems).
• 48 Months Experience providing technical support to facilitate understanding of IT related proposed contract scopes of work to ensure they are written in a manner that assures implementation of version upgrades, installations, configurations, custom development, triage and troubleshooting incidents, and testing.
• 48 Months Experience managing application development projects that include commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products.
• 60 Months Experience managing multiple projects on varied platforms simultaneously, such as infrastructure and application development and platform migraion projects.
• 60 Months Experience working on projects that require the ability to understand technical requirements such as server and database requirements for multiple environments like Dev, QA, Prod.
• 48 Months Experience managing Project Management functions in Service Now Project Management Software to update and maintain project management records, such as start/end date, estimates, cost plan, change request, maintain milestones, enter status report, etc.
• 48 Months Project Management experience leading projects with direct stakeholder involvement at state government director level and above.
• 48 Months Experience in managing projects involving more than one state agency.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)
• 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.)