IT Project Manager

- The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for successfully planning, organizing, and motivating diverse project teams throughout all phases of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid projects.- The Senior Project Manager will enable the transformation of identified requirements or opportunities to executable plans for delivery.- In addition, the incumbent will provide ongoing project level governance and oversight to projects throughout their execution.- The incumbent’s deliverables will provide exceptional value to the Commonwealth's internal and external stakeholders.RESPONSIBILITIES:- Originate and oversee proposals, statements of work, statements of requirements and RFP responses through selection/acquisition. Facilitate the technical and planning aspects of the technology procurement process.- Coordinate across multi-disciplinary teams to develop plans, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures that will enable future execution of a project or initiative. Incorporate agency best practices into those project plans.- Ensure plans minimally include tasks, schedules, identification of potential risks, checkpoints, reporting of status and appropriate allocation of resources from all required disciplines.- Seamlessly transition developed plans to internal VDOT and/or vendor teams for successful execution using PMI best-practices.- Provide oversight to ensure projects in execution include a framework for governance encompassing adequate meetings, reporting, metrics, risk and issue management, and quality assurance.- Validate that the assigned project team(s) adhere to project governance standards throughout the project lifecycle.- Monitor progress by third-party vendors and define and measure their progress with pre-defined metrics and milestones.- Manage working relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, including executive management, business management, vendors, project sponsors, suppliers, and technology management.- Set goals for initiatives that are consistent with technical objectives and the agency’s overall technology strategy.- Adhere to VDOT and VITA project management practices and governance requirements.- Exhibit significant emotional quotient (EQ) in handling project challenges and maintain a positive project culture in line with VDOT’s mission and shared values.- Additional responsibilities as assigned.KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:- Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing a portfolio of projects.- Strong experience leading the business and IT resources through the discovery and documentation of business and technical requirements in request for proposal and statement of requirement formats.- Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills.- Exceptional interpersonal skills for collaborating and team building.- Ability to plan in a rapidly changing environment and to provide guidance for changes as required for the life of the project.- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to simplify and briefly, succinctly communicate complex issues to multiple audiences.- Ability to lead others to implement new approaches, systems, structures, and methods.- Ability to define and balance the competing demands for quality, scope, schedule, and cost.- Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff.- Solid understanding of software development life cycle models.- Exceptional knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall project management principles and practices. In addition, the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a particular project and business environment.- Knowledge of process engineering and re-engineering techniques and practices.QUALIFICATIONS- The candidate should have 15 years of overall IT experience. Experience with technology infrastructure is preferred. Application Development experience is a plus.- The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience managing large projects in a Portfolio and a bachelor's degree.- The candidate should be proficient in Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project, Visio, and Office required.- The candidate should possess financial literacy including budgeting, accounting, investing and managing credit.- The candidate should have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in procurement management including original development of Statements of Work (SOWs), Requests for Quotation (RFQs) and contracts.- PMP Certification through PMI or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards for IT Project Managers. See:http://www.vita.virginia.gov/oversight/projects/default.aspx?id=- Experience with VITA’s Commonwealth Technology Portfolio (CTP) system and ECOS process is strongly preferred.- Experience with the core Commonwealth IT procurement processes (RFP, VITA Statewide Contract, and CAI SOW) is preferred.Fill the skill matrix below:SkillAmountCandidate's No. of years of experienceLarge Project ManagementRequired10Required5Project Management ToolsRequired10PMP or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards for IT Project Managers for Category 4 Projects.Required8Comprehensive knowledge of vendor contracting, and vendor management methodologies related to information technology projects.Required8Required10Hands-on working experience with Microsoft Project.Required4Must possess an active PMP from PMI OR a PM certification from VITA (no other certifications are accepted)Required5Highly desired1Proposal Development/Business WritingHighly desired10Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and software systems, including Azure and Google Cloud.Highly desired8Experience managing cloud-based solutions for data management and analytics.Highly desired8Experience in IT Infrastructure delivery (networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning) is preferred.8Apply NowFields with

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