IT Project Manager

Complete Description:

The Department of Labor has embarked on a multi-year initiative to modernize the existing environment to a more current and cost effective distributed environment. It will involve replacing existing legacy business applications with COTS products or internally developed applications.

The position, assigned to the Project Management Office, will direct and coordinate project activities, including but not limited to:

• Planning

• Schedule development and maintenance

• Resource tracking

• Risk management

• Communications management

• Reporting

• Quality management

• Vendor management

Primary duties will be to manage all aspects of the project following PMI best practices and the Georgia Department of Labor Project Management Methodology.

Successful candidates will be accomplished project managers who have directed and successfully managed, from start to finish, complex, technology projects with aggressive timelines.

Required Skills:

• Active Project Management Certification (PMP).

• Demonstrated success managing large complex programs/projects utilizing multiple delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, SCRUM, Kanban)

• Documented recent experience in:

o Business requirements gathering.

o Business process documentation.

o full Systems Development Life Cycle and Testing Methodologies

• Candidates must have managed at least two full lifecycle agile software development projects (initiation through deployment/warranty) with project teams in excess of 10 team members, and must have had FULL end-to-end accountability for the project management role. Demonstrated experience managing IT projects that impact across the enterprise – Experience must be related to software application development and implementation. Experience collaborating with vendor partners in the delivery of project solutions required.

• Expert level knowledge of standard PM tools (MS Project Professional, SharePoint, Visio, MS Office Suite)