Project Manager

Description 

This position is for an expert project manager responsible for managing all aspects of software development; evaluating project objectives within the parameters of budget, time and scope, managing the integration of project processes including impact analysis resulting from changes in project scope, budget or schedule, requirements gathering, develop and implements a formal risk mitigation plan, interacting with high-level stakeholders including top agency executives and vendors, and control the activities of the project team to ensure that project objectives are met.

Duties

• Work closely with the project’s business functional areas involving executive and business teams, ITS Leadership, Vendor, and technical teams to develop and manage the project scope and other project management plans (PMP), approach, resource requirements and allocation, schedule, deliverables, and funding.
• Provide guidance to project teams on day-to- day project tasks.
• Develop the program’s formal project plans specifying goals, strategy, dependencies, scheduling, identifying risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources.
• Follow the standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation for all projects being managed within the NYS ITS Project Management Office (PMO).
• Identify, schedule, and manage project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
  Assign tasks and responsibilities and drive accountability to project team members.
• Direct and coordinate complex business requirements deliveries, business process reengineering, and organizational change activities.

Mandatory Requirements 

• Experience (12+ Years)
• Plans, organizes and integrates cross-functional information technology projects that are significant in scope and impact.

Requirements 

• This is an 100% Onsite
• 84 months of experience as a Project Manager managing 3-5 simultaneous application development projects that include Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) projects and/or in-house and ensuring vendor delivers expeditious and thorough implementation of version upgrades, installations, configurations, custom development, triage, troubleshooting incidents, and testing, with projects adhering to the Secure System Development Life Cycle development (SSDLC).
• 84 months of experience as a Project Manager managing project execution and control, including creating and maintaining the following: project budgets, project schedules in MS Project, project scope, status reports, communication plans, project management plan, quality standards throughout the project management lifecycle from initiation to closeout
• 84 months of experience in developing and managing formal project schedules in a project tracking tool, such as Microsoft Project, including tracking progress and variances against baselines utilizing both Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid methodologies; using standard PM techniques (e.g., scrum sessions) to update project schedule; and presenting schedule/status updates to both ITS and client agency leaderships.
• 84 months of experience developing, writing, and managing detailed Scope Documents, reviewing project deliverables and managing the deliverables acceptance process and using the project scope and deliverable management process to manage the project change request process.
• 84 months experience with project quality planning, quality assurance, end-to-end system testing, quality control, user acceptance testing (UAT) defect and metrics management, and quality governance.
• 84 months of experience managing and leading multi-phased, high visibility projects, and reporting to the highest-level government IT projects in a State or Federal Agency, preferably involving criminal justice projects working with Correctional and Community Supervision Services and Criminal History Information Systems.
• 36 months post PMP project management experience implementing business process re-engineering and organizational change management projects
• Résumé
• Copy of Candidate Identification (i.e., Driver’s License/Green Card/Visa and Passport if applicable).
• Any documents referenced in the above Requested Qualifications (i.e., professional certifications, degrees, etc.)