Senior IT Project Manager

VMGTS; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard Management Solutions in Washington, DC is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead enterprise systems development and infrastructure projects within a portfolio and project management team. You will oversee budgets, schedules, vendor relationships, and risk management while ensuring deliverables meet client requirements and acceptance criteria.

This role requires strong communication, business process analysis, and SDLC expertise, with PMP and ITIL certifications preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience managing enterprise IT projects and developing project plans.
• Experience managing four to five concurrent projects with budgets exceeding $500,000.
• Ability to coordinate resources and delivery within a matrixed organization.
• Knowledge of systems development life cycle standards and guidelines.
• Strong business process analysis, data review, and data migration skills.
• Knowledge of the Project Management Body of Knowledge and project management plans.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including translating technical concepts for business and nontechnical audiences.
• Project Management Professional certification and ITIL certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Site Implementation and Delivery; assess site infrastructure requirements and prepare system requirements and specifications for business applications.
• Manage equipment provisioning, procurement, and installation.
• Assess risks related to cost, scope, duration, and resources.
• Set stakeholder expectations and clarify project roles and responsibilities.
• Manage vendors, monitor costs and schedules, adjust resources, report performance.
• Develop and maintain the project management plan, charter, scope statement, risk register, and status reports.
• Coordinate software releases with project teams, infrastructure teams, and vendors.
• Lead project and status meetings; investigate issues and coordinate resolution.
• Maintain the risk register, develop contingency plans, and monitor change control.

Skills

Enterprise IT project management

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Vendor management

SDLC knowledge

Risk management

Communication

Education

PMP certification

ITIL certification (foundation or above)

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Advanced degree

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Visio

Job description

The Senior IT Project Manager leads enterprise systems development and infrastructure projects within a portfolio and project management team. Projects include infrastructure upgrades, business application deployments, video collaboration, remote video interpreting, and audiovisual solutions. This role manages complex delivery challenges involving budgets, schedules, technology, resources, and vendors, and tracks performance across business and operational activities.

Responsibilities

• Site Implementation and Delivery
• Assess site infrastructure requirements and prepare system requirements and specifications for business application deployments.
• Manage equipment provisioning, procurement, and installation.
• Assess risks related to cost, scope, duration, and resources.
• Set stakeholder expectations and clarify project roles and responsibilities.
• Manage vendors, monitor costs and schedules, adjust resources, recommend changes, and report performance.
• Ensure deliverables meet client requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Business Analysis and Solution Design
• Align projects with business needs and strategic objectives, and develop the business case.
• Lead cross-functional project teams in defining requirements and analyzing system problems with business owners, stakeholders, and subject matter experts.
• Evaluate processes, workflows, and procedures; analyze gaps between current and future states and propose alternative solutions where appropriate.
• Create functional requirements documents, use cases, and requirements traceability matrices.
• Lead requirements workshops and develop test plans to validate proposed solutions.
• Ensure appropriate architecture, sequence, topology, and process diagrams are available.
• Support commercial off-the-shelf software, internally developed applications, software as a service, and cloud implementation approaches.
• Project Governance, Releases, and Issue Management
• Create and maintain the project management plan and supporting artifacts, including the charter, scope statement, stakeholder and vendor plans, schedule, requirements traceability matrix, data migration plan, risk register, issue log, deployment plan, test plan, acceptance plan, status reports, meeting agendas, and minutes.
• Apply the client's systems development life cycle standards and project management office templates.
• Coordinate software releases with project teams, infrastructure teams, and vendors.
• Lead project and status meetings.
• Investigate issues involving requirements, data, performance, workflow, business processes, software quality, and training.
• Assign issues to the appropriate business, IT, or vendor team, assess severity, and coordinate resolution.
• Maintain complete issue documentation and clear ownership through closure.
• Maintain the risk register, assess probability and impact, and develop contingency, mitigation, and avoidance plans.
• Ensure releases and patches include vendor test results, required configurations, and release notes.
• Assess the effect of changes across dependent business functions.
• Monitoring and Change Control
• Track project performance against agreed metrics and baselines.
• Monitor and control scope, cost, schedule, and ongoing project activities.
• Create and evaluate change requests and recommend corrective or preventive actions.

Qualifications

Required

Experience managing enterprise IT projects and developing project plans.

Experience managing four to five concurrent projects with budgets exceeding $500,000.

Ability to coordinate resources and delivery within a matrixed organization.

Knowledge of systems development life cycle standards and guidelines.

Strong business process analysis, data review, and data migration skills.

Knowledge of the Project Management Body of Knowledge and project management plans.

Strong organization, attention to detail, and follow-through across projects, requirements, and action items.

Clear written and verbal communication, including translating technical concepts for business and nontechnical audiences.

Ability to collaborate effectively in complex, fast-paced environments.

Project Management Professional certification.

Relevant ITIL certification, including foundation-level or advanced service management qualifications.

Technical background, such as systems administration.

Experience implementing or working within a project management office and performing functions such as resource management.

Advanced degree in a technical or management discipline.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Vanguard Management Solutions is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other protected characteristic. We are proud to be a Minority-Owned Small Business.

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