Job summary:


Title:
PMP Project Manager with government experience

Location:
Jackson, MS, USA

Length and terms:
Long term - W2 or C2C


Position created on 10/16/2020 02:25 pm

Job description:


****  Very long term project; initial PO for 2 years but expected to go for multiple years *** Webcam interview*** Onsite 

Duties

  • Preparing project plans
  • Facilitating discussions and consensus among various stakeholders
  • Analyzing and defining complex business problems to provide solutions that meet business requirements
  • Defining and documenting business requirements, user stories, processes and workflows
  • Designing and configuring detailed specifications for applications to meet business requirements and user stories
  • Ensuring delivery of high-quality applications and re-engineered processes
  • Developing project proposals and recommendations to stakeholders
  • Developing project plans to identify project scope, objectives, milestones, deliverables, project schedule, budget and resources
  • Providing timely and comprehensive project status reports to project team and supervisory management
  • Receiving direction from supervisory management, providing appropriate, accurate and tactful comment or feedback in a timely manner
  • Managing and monitoring project budget and expenditures
  • Tracking and monitoring project progress against the project plan, requirements, user stories, processes, milestones and quality indicators
  • Gathering information on business functions, processes, procedures and information needs through a variety of methods, including process workshops, workflow analysis, and interviews with subject matter experts, application developers and other technical personnel
  • Developing detailed knowledge of corporate processes and associated tools used to support these processes
  • Working in collaboration with project team members, and other key stakeholders, to define and document detailed business requirements and user stories
  • Evaluating current business requirements, user stories and processes to identify automation and/or improvement initiatives
  • Acting as Change Agent to improve business operations and manage impact of changes on business
  • Working with stakeholders to develop and execute software testing strategy, including test plans, test cases and confirmation of expected results
  • Ensuring all documentation relevant to the application/project is developed, clear and concise, and easy to maintain (specifications, design, features, processes, procedures, use cases, test scripts, interfaces, reports, training materials, user manuals, help systems, etc.)
  • Instituting a quality assurance, audit and post implementation process for all application upgrades/projects to ensure that they meet client expectations
  • Managing a diverse and complex suite of projects simultaneously
  • Managing any assigned staff, including contractors, working as a team.

 

Skills

  • 6 years PM
  • current PMP
  • 3 years State/Federal government experience; DHHS preferred
  • Experience as a business analyst and/or project manager 
  • Experience in gathering, documenting and communicating business requirements and/or user stories
  • Experience with project requiring knowledge of project management principles or agile software development techniques, methodologies and best practices;
  • Experience with organizing project teams and work plans for multiple projects;
  • Experience estimating and planning project timelines and milestones, and administering task schedules;
  • Experience in designing, documenting and improving business processes;
  • Experience with projects requiring an understanding of application programming, relational database concepts and system design;
  • Experience research and writing Advanced Planning Documents required by Federal partners in the area of health and human services. 
  • Proficient level skill in MS Office products: Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Experience with project management tracking software
  • Experience with projects requiring an understanding of online web portal architectures and how legacy and web-based systems interface with each other; and
  • Experience with designing and building n-tier software applications
  • Experience with Visio or similar process flow software.
  • Experience using JIRA and Slack software
  • Experience with agile software methodology.
  • SCRUM certification (SCRUM Product owner)

Contact the recruiter working on this position:



The recruiter working on this position is Hima Teja(Shaji Team)
His/her contact number is +(1) (202) 6290353
His/her contact email is teja@msysinc.com

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