IT Project Manager PMP (VA804811)
The selected candidate will (high level):
· Technical Project Leadership: Serve as a hands on senior technical project manager partnering with development teams, business leaders, enterprise architects, and technology owners to deliver complex, multiplatform IT initiatives, including those leveraging emerging AI capabilities.
· Cross functional Coordination: Direct and synchronize project tasks, resources, timelines, and stake holder expectations across ITD leadership, technical teams, business units, and governance bodies.
· Vendor& Partner Management: Oversee vendor, consultant, and contractor performance, including contract coordination, procurement collaboration, SOW validation, and delivery oversight.
· Project Documentation & Reporting: Maintain comprehensive project artifacts (budgets, schedules, risks, issues, metrics, and status reports) and deliver timely updates aligned with the communications plan.
· Clear, Adaptive Communication: Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non technical audiences, fostering alignment across IT, security, business teams, and vendor partners.
· Risk Identification & Mitigation: Identify, assess, and mitigate technical, security, operational, and vendor related risks across all project phases.
· Architecture & Governance Alignment: Ensure all project solutions adhere to agency architecture standards, security policies, best practices, and project management governance requirements.
· Performance Measurement: Track and evaluate vendor and third party deliverables using defined KPIs and SLAs to ensure quality, timeliness, and contractual compliance.
· Milestone & Release Management: Manage project milestones, deliverables, change control, and release activities to ensure on time, on budget, and low disruption deployments.
· Testing Leadership: Coordinate planning and execution of testing activities, document test objectives, and ensure creation of detailed test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria.
· Training& Adoption Support: Support system and application training efforts to ensure smooth adoption, operational readiness, and effective knowledge transfer.
· Technical Expertise: Provide senior level guidance on system upgrades, cloud and infrastructure modernization, application migrations, and remediation of security or asset vulnerabilities.
· Data& Integration Literacy: Apply strong understanding of infrastructure, databases, APIs, and application architectures to support planning, estimation, and technical decision making.