IT Project Manager

Appex Innovation

$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
15+ years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 84 months of experience as a Project Manager handling simultaneous application development projects including COTS and custom solutions.
  • Proficient in managing project execution including budgets, schedules, and scope documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Experience developing and managing project schedules in Microsoft Project, applying Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid methodologies.
  • Strong skills in creating and managing detailed Scope Documents and overseeing deliverables acceptance processes.
  • Expertise in project quality planning, assurance, and control including end-to-end testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).
  • Able to lead multi-phased, high visibility projects with reporting to senior government IT executives.
  • Possesses 36 months of post-PMP experience in business process re-engineering and change management.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, organize, and integrate cross-functional IT projects with significant scope and impact.
  • Manage the scope, schedule, and budget of complex multi-year IT projects across multiple entities.
  • Guide project teams through requirements gathering, documentation, testing, and deployment planning.
  • Present project status reports to executives and negotiate resource allocation with senior management.
  • Develop risk mitigation strategies and ensure adherence to quality standards in project execution.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment located in Albany, NY.
  • In-person interview process, indicating a commitment to assessing cultural fit.
  • Opportunity to work within a highly integrated and technologically advanced environment incorporating high-demand tools.
  • Engagement with multiple technologies and cross-functional teams, enhancing career growth and experience.
Full Job Description
Job Description
Job Title: Project Manager

Interview Type: In-Person

Location: Albany, NY (Hybrid)

Job Description:

Mandatory Qualification

Plans, organizes and integrates cross-functional information technology projects that are significant in scope and impact.

Provide a list of the day-to-day tasks to be performed by the Selected Candidate:

  1. The position is for a highly skilled Project Manager working in a very integrated technical environment, within the SLA ITS. The team integrates multiple technologies, and the consultant will be required to work utilizing HBITS identified high demand tools in technologically advanced environments.
  2. The consultant will be requested to manage scope, schedule and budget of complex multi-year ITS projects, guiding multi[1]entity project teams in multiple projects, and be accountable for requirements gathering, creation of business and technical requirements gathering, creation of business and technical documentation, testing, and deployment planning, risk mitigation strategies, and project status reporting.
  3. The consultant will be responsible for managing staff oriented in matrix management techniques, negotiating with senior management on resource allocations and project responsibilities, and delivering project status presentations to executives.

Expert

  • 84+ Months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.

Requested Qualifications:

  1. 84 months of experience as a Project Manager managing 3-5 simultaneous application development projects that include Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) projects and/or in-house and ensuring vendor delivers expeditious and thorough implementation of version upgrades, installations, configurations, custom development, triage, troubleshooting incidents, and testing, with projects adhering to the Secure System Development Life Cycle development (SSDLC).


  1. 84 months of experience as a Project Manager managing project execution and control, including creating and maintaining the following: project budgets, project schedules in MS Project, project scope, status reports, communication plans, project management plan, quality standards throughout the project management lifecycle from initiation to closeout
  2. 84 months of experience in developing and managing formal project schedules in a project tracking tool, such as Microsoft Project, including tracking progress and variances against baselines utilizing both Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid methodologies; using standard PM techniques (e.g., scrum sessions) to update project schedule; and presenting schedule/status updates to both ITS and client agency leaderships.
  3. 84 months of experience developing, writing, and managing detailed Scope Documents, reviewing project deliverables and managing the deliverables acceptance process and using the project scope and deliverable management process to manage the project change request process.
  4. 84 months experience with project quality planning, quality assurance, end-to-end system testing, quality control, user acceptance testing (UAT) defect and metrics management, and quality governance.
  5. 84 months of experience managing and leading multi-phased, high visibility projects, and reporting to the highest-level government IT projects in a State or Federal Agency, preferably involving licensing projects.
  6. 36 months of post PMP project management experience implementing business process re-engineering and organizational change management projects.

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