Sr. Project Manager

SV Tech Systems Inc; Eagan (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SV Tech Systems is seeking a Sr. Project Manager for an 18+ month contract position in Eagan, MN. You will lead complex IT projects, manage stakeholders, and coordinate cross‑functional teams across the SDLC, with frequent travel in initial weeks.

Ideal candidates bring experience moving mainframe applications to distributed environments, vendor management, and risk controls. Airline domain familiarity is a plus for this role.

Qualifications

• Experience moving applications from mainframe to distributed environments.
• End-to-end PM experience across the SDLC.
• Projects in the $2–4 million range with multiple IT groups.
• Willingness to travel weekly at first, then every other week.
• Airline industry experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Leads entire project and ensures timely delivery.
• Communicates with stakeholders and sponsors.
• Aligns business user roles and project responsibilities.
• Assembles project team and orients members.
• Develops and executes overall project schedule with tasks and dependencies.
• Controls scope, time, cost, quality, risks, and issues.
• Ensures quality of deliverables and traceability to requirements.
• Escalates problems and manages vendor relationships per contract terms.
• Monitors performance and provides feedback to managers.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

SDLC

Vendor Management

Risk Management

Job description

SV Tech Systems prides itself in being the leading provider of recruitment and staffing services for a wide range of industries. We provide staffing services to firms throughout the United States and Canada. We attract the best pool of talent with the aim of nurturing sound work ethics and solid values amongst a highly motivated and diverse workforce.

Job Description

Title : Sr. Project Manager
Duration: 18+ month contract position
Location: Eagan, MN

Responsibilities:

• Leads entire project
• Communicates appropriately to stakeholders
• Help Business Partners and Business Users understand their roles and responsibilities within the project
• Requests the needed people for a project and get them oriented to work on the project
• Develops and executes an overall project schedule, including tasks, duration, dependencies, and resource assignments
• Controls and tracks changes to scope, time, cost, quality, issues, and risk
• Leads completion of project objective, such as procurement, quality planning, service level agreements, and customer training
• Ensures product deliverables’ quality, such as functional specifications, logical and physical data design, solution design and detailed design, test plans, and completed solution
• Resolves issues in a timely manner. When appropriate, escalate problems and issues to stakeholders and sponsor
• Evaluates risks and assess possible outcomes
• Manages vendor relationships according to contract terms and conditions
• Responds to terms or conditions not being met
• Monitors individual performance and provide feedback to resource managers
• Recognizes and reward desirable individual and team performance
• Directs and delegates work effort

Qualifications

Qualifications:

This project is sponsored by the Revenue Management portfolio and is in the Feasibility phase. Project is "IT - Seamless Availability to a Distributed Platform". Project scope is to move real-time inventory availability from a mainframe environment to a distributed environment. Ideal candidates will have experience in moving applications from mainframe to distributed and hardware experience. We do not want to go backwards in speed, so application tuning and performance testing will play a large part in the success of this project. Project will be fairly matrixed and doing project successfully is critical to our airline. PM needs to be organized and keep track of several items moving forward at the same time. Past airline experience is a plus, but not necessarily required. Project will follow typical SDLC and PM must have proven experience from start to end of SDLC. Experience should include projects in range of $2-4 million, projects that involve multiple IT groups, software application projects that include working with multiple IT groups, both on the app side and Infra side (resumes presented should reflect this experience). Perhaps travel weekly at first and then switch to every other week after relationships have been established. Estimate one over night during weekly and then bi-weekly travel. Budget will be approximately $2 million in hardware and $1 million in application development.