Senior Technical Project Manager

Senior Technical Project Manager
*This is a hybrid position requiring three (3) days/week on-site, candidates local to Richmond, VA only, please

Description:
Our client is seeking a senior technical Project Manager to manage and deliver complex IT Projects with multiple teams and work streams coordinated to an aggressive delivery schedule.

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager is responsible for the outcome of the assigned projects.
• The Project Manager leads the team through the Commonwealth Standard for Project Management for successful completion of the project phases:
  - Preselect
  - Initiation
  - Planning
  - Execution and Control
  - Closeout.
• The selected candidate will:
• Serve as a hands-on technical project manager with development staff and business groups
• Coordinate and communicate with Information Technology Division management and staff to coordinate work staff and resourcing.
• Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff
• Facilitate multi-functional technical team collaboration.
• Collaborate with vendors consultants and contractors in the execution of projects including contract management and work with procurement offices.
• Adhere to the client’s and VITA project management practices and governance requirements.
• Coordinate with the client’s and VITA project management offices.
• Maintain project budget plans tasks schedules risks and status and disseminate information to team members and customers as defined in the communication plan.
• Ensure documentation of requirements and use cases facilitate design workshops for assigned project.
• Ensure preparation of test objectives test plans and test cases for assigned project.
• Provide the management of project milestones and deliverables for on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Define measure and clearly communicate progress with project metrics.
• Support system and application training efforts.

Skills:

• Experience managing large MultiStream projects valued at $10M or greater each, Required 10 Years
• Experience in IT infrastructure delivery (Networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning), Required 10 Years
• Experience in both Scaled Agile and Waterfall Project Management, Required 10 Years
• PMP Certification, Required
• VITA Certification, Highly desired
• Agile Scrum Master Certification, Desired
• SAFe® Scrum Master Certification, Desired
• Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server), Required 10 Years
• Experience managing projects with high visibility and high stakes, Required 10 Years
• Experience managing projects that had to coordinate with at least one external team., Required 10 Years
• Experience managing a project as part of a larger program and under PMO governance., Required 10 Years
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Systems Engineering, Management Information Systems, Project Management or Finance/Business, Required 4 Years

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