MAINFRAME PROJECT MANAGER

Job description This position is being filled to lead a new project centered on evaluating existing applications hosted on the mainframe. The goal of this project is to modernize these applications in order to mitigate known risks and to improve business operations by taking advantage of new, and fully supported, technology and industry standards. This will lay the foundation to streamline business processes, allow for continued cost-effective support, improve integration with vendor products and the development and automation of future business process improvements. The current applications are owned by multiple departments throughout the County. They differ in size, function & complexity and integrate with State or other third-party systems. The County currently uses and supports Microsoft technologies. The successful candidate will work with County Directors and/or Department Heads and stakeholders to define the project's objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle. Additionally, this individual should be able to utilize leadership skills, demonstrate sound judgment, and discretion to positively influence project teams and overall project success. The Project Manager will be responsible for leading an enterprise multi-disciplinary team, assigning individual responsibilities, enforcing accountability, developing and maintaining a schedule and timeline to ensure timely completion of the project; maintain industry standard project management documentation, agile methodology and metrics to ensure project meets service delivery expectations; work directly with internal and external project stakeholders to deliver successful implementation while managing project scope; work to define the resource roles, objectives and provide oversight throughout the project s life cycle. Experience and Education: Required: • 5-8+ years proven project management experience including scope and requirements definition, problem solving and process improvements, leading modernization efforts from mainframe to new tech platforms. • Proficiency with MS Project, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio • 5+ years experience utilizing Software Development methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid as well as managed services support structure and best practices. • Ability to advocate a creative atmosphere, facilitates productive meetings, and envision a final product and user adoption early in the design and/or development process. Highly Preferred: • Bachelor s degree in business administration, Computer Science, or related field. • PMP or Scrum equivalent certification. • Previous functional/technical government program experience either as an internal consultant or with a consulting/software organization • Previous project management experience in a government setting with multiple projects comprising enterprise efforts related to retiring legacy applications, focused on modernization using Microsoft technologies.