Technical Project Manager

Workila; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm is seeking a Technical Project Manager in Washington DC. This role requires a four-year degree and 5-7 years of related experience managing SDLC projects. You will create project documentation, manage budgets, and communicate with stakeholders. Strong leadership, analytical, and communication skills are essential. Ideal candidates have prior experience with integration of technologies and managing cross-functional teams. The position is conveniently located within walking distance of a metro station.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of related SDLC project management experience.
• Experience managing and delivering SDLC projects with diverse technologies.
• Strong interpersonal skills to influence and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Create detailed SDLC planning documentation.
• Manage project budget and provide reporting on variances.
• Communicate risks and facilitate project meetings.

Skills

Project Management

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Problem Solving

Education

Four-year degree in CIS/MIS

Tools

MS Project

Clarity Portfolio Management tool

Job description

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Job Description

Client: Carefirst, BCBS FEPOC

Tasks: Our client is seeking a Technical Project Manager to work with necessary stakeholders.

Responsibilities will, but not limited to, include:

• Creates detailed SDLC planning documentation for a given technology product team and follows all defined SDLC and Project Management Life-Cycle (PMLC) processes.
• Establish and publish clear priorities among project activities.
• Prepares, implements, refines, and manages the SDLC project plan.
• Works with project tools and reports project status and executive reports as defined by the project plan.
• Develops project schedules with the appropriate Work Break Down Structure and identifies the critical path of the project
• Performs Project Monitoring and Control/Risk Management:
• Communicate risks to program manager, stakeholders and business sponsors, elevate issues and risks for mitigation.
• Facilitate regularly scheduled project meetings for the project team, workgroup, executive steering committee, and risk planning and change control.
• Manages the Project Budget with overall budget accountability, and does reporting on variance etc.
• Work with Scrum teams, other functional areas within client to ensure timely delivery.
• Supports requirements of the program manager to provide necessary information and support for successful program delivery.

Required Skills:

• This position requires a four-year degree in CIS/MIS or equivalent experience of 5-7 years of related SDLC project management experience in a large scale, cross functional, multi-system environment.
• Experience managing and delivering SDLC projects integrating leading-edge technologies and older legacy technologies.
• In-depth knowledge of system development methodologies; understanding of technologies employed at FEPOC; experience managing matrixed cross functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities across all phases of the system development life-cycle (SDLC) for multiple projects within the constraints of the product scope, resources, time, and budget.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate the development of a WBS in partnership with functional teams.
• Ability to lead dynamic, energized, and highly creative multidiscipline high-performance work teams in learning and applying new skills/techniques to respond to business needs.
• Leadership skills including: coaching, organizing, integrating, directing, controlling and motivating.
• Solid teamwork and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate and influence customers, employees, and management at all levels and thrive in a cross-functional environment.
• Excellent oral and written communications; an ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding. Must be able to influence and partner with Functional Managers to achieve not only wins for own objectives and deliverables but also those of the broad organization.
• Exceptional project management skills, effectively arranging resources and managing small to moderate projects in a cross-functional environment, work flow balancing, activity scheduling, problem resolution and flexibility, including the use of MS Project and ideally Clarity Portfolio Management tool.
• Ability to analyze project needs and determine resources needed to meet objectives, possess good technical skills including scheduling, estimating and costing.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills.
• Proficiency in project management planning and estimation tools.

Preferred Skills

• Prior Health insurance industry exposure.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage the Customer relationship, including ability to manage Customer messaging and issue resolution.
• Additional information.

Interview format: 1st – Phone Screen, 2nd - Skype or Face to Face

Location: Washington DC – SouthWest, Walking distance (1 block) from metro station

Additional Information

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