Sr Project Manager

Role: Sr. Project Manager

Location: Hartford CT Hybrid Onsite

Job Description:

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. 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 decisionmaking 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 highquality 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 enterpriselevel 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 wellorganized and influential leadership skills with demonstrated experience working in a teamoriented environment and proficiency with collaboration including having excellent interpersonal and documentation skills.
• Proven teambuilding skills with technical and nontechnical 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