Job summary:
Title:
Project Manager - Hybrid
Location:
Hartford, CT, USA
Length and terms:
Long term - W2 or C2C
Position created on 03/27/2024 08:05 pm
Job description:
*** Hybrid *** Webcam interview very long term project initial PO for 1 year with multiyear extensions ***
OVERVIEW:
The Connecticut DAS BITS team is seeking qualified candidates to fill the role of Opportunity Center Project Manager to oversee the Project Management efforts and serve in a leadership role on the Project.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Project Manager will be responsible for the oversight of the technical solution inclusive of technical/project documentation and State and Federal compliance and will work collaboratively with the Business/BITS. The duties and expectations of the Project Manager are as follows:
- Provide oversight, guidance, and direction to Project Staff for appropriate planning, development/implementation of the System.
- Project decision making as needed and escalate issues to the project leadership.
- Responsibility for ensuring proper development and maintenance of integrated project schedules, and risk & issue logs.
- Ensure proper internal project communications and reporting.
- Manages information systems activities within areas such as IT infrastructure and architecture, applications development, networks, computer operations and support.
- Provide a complete and thorough review of project deliverables and ensure review and approval milestones are met.
- Facilitate and own appropriate stakeholder engagement and communication.
- Support the collection, management, and dissemination of high quality status reports.
- Work closely with technical staff on the project and provide leadership in ensuring the appropriate documentation of requirements and the necessary IT resource planning and allocation.
- Assistance with organization, prioritization and supervision of team activities, project standards, and technical decisions
- Oversight of vendors, project scopes, deliverables, timelines, and schedule
- Oversight and assistance in developing a more comprehensive and attainable roadmap for the duration of the project.
- Continual assessment and remediation of identified risks, gaps, dependencies, and impediments.
- Coordination and alignment of project needs with Business strategies/processes.
- Oversight of State and Federal technical regulations and compliance functions related to the project.
- Assistance in facilitating project status meetings, participation in the projects governance processes and collaboration on stakeholder/customer communication.
- Assistance in identifying and prioritizing data exchanges/interfaces
- Collaboration with the Business/Program staff for the development of training and to assess customer satisfaction/feedback.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
The following outlines the preferred qualifications for this position:
- Solid understanding of best practices related to modular system integration, system development life cycle requirements/models, and experience with software development and scrum/agile methodologies with enterprise level application development projects.
- Profound project delivery and management experience.
- Knowledge and experience in Department of Social Services, Department of Labor, Department of Housing, Office of Early Childhood welfare assistance programs.
- Knowledge and experience in information systems activities within areas such as IT infrastructure and architecture, applications development, networks, computer operations and support.
- 10 years related experience in project management, planning, and tracking of projects, including overseeing IT projects and schedules/roadmaps from conception to completion.
- Experience with interoperability and data exchanges/interfaces
- Experience working with business stakeholders in related industries.
- Experience with and understanding of full project or product lifecycle.
- Proficiency with project management tools and related technology
- Ability to lead, drive results, solve problems, and possess interpersonal skills from prior work situations.
- Experience leading teams responsible for requirements gathering, business analysis, program development, testing and version control.
- Proven communication skills, well organized, and influential leadership skills, with demonstrated experience working in a team oriented environment and proficiency with collaboration, including having excellent interpersonal and documentation skills.
- Proven team building skills with technical and non technical staff, as well as coaching and mentoring.
- Business acumen and political savvy
- Change Management experience and expertise.
- Project budgeting, resource planning, allocation and capacity planning skills and experience
- Experience with technology requirements for human service systems (e.g., business processing modeling, architecture, SDLC, interoperability, system integration, data management, security, etc.)
- Experience with iterative and incremental development and the ability to adjust to changing requirements, policy changes and legislative mandates.
- Experience managing project timelines, deliverables, project scopes, risks, and leading project status meetings.
- Experience in best practice related to government procurement of technology vendors.
- Knowledge of Salesforce preferred.
- Proficiencies in MS Project, SharePoint, Azure DevOps, and other project tools/software
Qualifications:
- AGILE Agile Development Methodology 4/6 Years
- Service oriented architecture (SOA) 4/6 Years
- Web Services and Windows Services 4/6 Years
- Vmware VCP 6 Cloud 4/6 Years
- Windows 9x/2000/XP/NT/Vista/7 7/9 Years
- Communication skills both verbal and written 10+ Years
- Consolidation planning and management 10+ Years
- Data center management 10+ Years
- Enterprise Data Architect 7/9 Years
- Integration planning and strategy 10+ Years
- Presentation skills 10+ Years
- Project management 10+ Years
- Wireless Support Specialist 7/9 Years
Contact the recruiter working on this position:
The recruiter working on this position is MANOJ Kumar Akkapelly(Raghu Team)
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His/her contact email is manojk@msysinc.com
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