Job DescriptionWe are seeking an experienced IT Project Manager II to lead strategic IT projects and support agency-wide technology initiatives. The ideal candidate will have extensive project management and business analysis experience, strong technical knowledge, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, technical professionals, business stakeholders, and leadership.
The candidate must be skilled in managing complex IT projects, gathering business requirements, developing technical specifications, and ensuring successful project delivery within established timelines and quality standards.
Key Responsibilities- Develop and maintain project charters, project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and other project documentation.
- Lead large-scale IT projects involving cross-functional teams, developers, business analysts, and stakeholders.
- Gather, analyze, and document business requirements, workflows, use cases, and user stories.
- Develop technical specifications and system design documentation for custom application development.
- Apply Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall project management methodologies as appropriate.
- Monitor project progress, identify risks and issues, and implement mitigation strategies.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings, project reviews, and status updates.
- Track project deliverables, milestones, resources, and dependencies to ensure timely completion.
- Perform business analysis, data analysis, process modeling, and comparison analysis to support decision-making.
- Prepare project status reports, dashboards, risk logs, and other management reports.
- Coordinate change management, project transitions, user adoption, and knowledge transfer.
- Manage project closure activities, final reporting, and lessons learned.
Qualifications- 10+ years of experience managing complex IT projects and coordinating technical teams and stakeholders.
- 10+ years of experience in project management and business analysis, including requirements gathering and technical specification development.
- Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall methodologies.
- Experience with business analysis techniques, workflows, use cases, user stories, data analysis, and process modeling.
- Experience creating technical specifications and system designs for custom application development.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, adapt to changing requirements, and meet deadlines.
- Experience with project planning, risk management, budgeting, scheduling, and resource coordination.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with Jira Service Management, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, and other collaboration tools.
- Experience working in government or public-sector IT environments.
- Knowledge of business intelligence tools, reporting, and dashboard development.
Additional InformationLocation:
Madison, WI.(Hybrid) - Local Candidates Only 
