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
Our recruiters will be more than happy to help you to get this contract.