Senior GIS & IT Project Leader - Large-Scale Modernization

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC seeks an experienced Senior IT/Technology Project Manager with GIS project experience to lead a large-scale GIS modernization initiative. You will own the design phase, support business case development, and drive go-live and closeout with cross-functional teams.

The role requires strong enterprise PM skills, hands-on project leadership, and proven GIS delivery experience, preferably ArcGIS-related, with a track record of coordinating vendors and internal

Qualifications

• 5+ years IT/Technology Project Management experience, with 10+ years strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience managing GIS-related technology projects.
• Proven success delivering complex, large-scale enterprise technology/software projects.
• Experience leading projects from initiation and planning through implementation, go-live, and closeout.
• Experience managing enterprise software implementations, upgrades, migrations, or conversions.
• Strong knowledge and practical experience with Waterfall SDLC and structured project delivery methodologies.
• Experience working within stage-gate/project governance processes.
• Strong hands-on proficiency with Microsoft Project.
• Demonstrated ability to create and manage detailed, resource-loaded project schedules.
• Strong experience managing third-party vendors, consulting partners, and/or system integrators.
• Proven ability to manage project risks, issues, dependencies, scope, schedules, resources, and escalations.
• Ability to drive execution, challenge assumptions when appropriate, remove obstacles, and hold teams accountable for commitments.
• Strong executive-level written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex initiatives with minimal oversight.
• Strong systems-thinking, critical problem-solving, organizational, and prioritization skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a large-scale GIS technology initiative from the current design phase through business case approval, implementation, go-live, and project closeout.
• Quickly assess project status, existing challenges, risks, resource constraints, dependencies, and priorities.
• Develop a realistic implementation roadmap and integrated project plan.
• Build and maintain detailed, resource-loaded project schedules using Microsoft Project, including tasks, durations, owners, dependencies, milestones, critical paths, baseline dates, forecast dates, and resource constraints.
• Coordinate work across GIS teams, IT groups, architects, business stakeholders, operational teams, consulting partners, and implementation vendors.
• Lead scope, schedule, risk, issue, dependency, resource, and escalation management.
• Proactively identify obstacles and drive timely resolution.
• Establish clear ownership, delivery expectations, and measurable commitments across project workstreams.
• Hold third-party vendors, consultants, and system integrators accountable for deliverables, schedules, and project outcomes.
• Lead project governance activities within a structured Waterfall SDLC and stage-gate environment.
• Translate complex GIS and technical information into clear business decisions and executive-level communications.
• Provide consistent and transparent project reporting to leadership and executive sponsors.
• Support development of the project business case, including implementation scope, timelines, resources, costs, and overall feasibility.
• Determine realistic scope and priorities for initial implementation phases.
• Lead planning around system migration/conversion, testing, cutover, training, operational readiness, and transition to ongoing operations.
• Build stakeholder alignment and drive decisions across multiple business and technology groups.

Skills

IT/Technology Project Management

GIS project management

Microsoft Project

Waterfall SDLC

Vendor management

Stakeholder communication

Change management

Risk management

Strategic planning

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC seeks an experienced Senior IT/Technology Project Manager with GIS project experience to lead a large-scale GIS modernization initiative. You will own the design phase, support business case development, and drive go-live and closeout with cross-functional teams.

The role requires strong enterprise PM skills, hands-on project leadership, and proven GIS delivery experience, preferably ArcGIS-related, with a track record of coordinating vendors and internal