Job ID: 748891
IT Technical Project Manager/Business Analyst
Client: State of Indiana Department of Health
Duration: 18 Months
Work location: 2 N. Meridian St. Indianapolis IN 46204
Preferred Hybrid 3 days onsite
- Vital Records project focused on improving productivity and documenting system enhancement for potential enhancements.
- The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both project management and business analysis capable of driving projects to successful completion and optimizing business operations. Candidate will act as a key liaison between stakeholders and project teams ensuring that business objectives are met with effective and efficient solutions.
- Candidate will spend a significant amount of their time with stakeholders providing technical leadership to ensure that business requirements are being identified and met in a timely manner.
- Candidate must have the capacity to learn and support a wide range of system functionality.
- The candidate must also be articulate passionate about helping users and be an enthusiastic selfstarter who is comfortable working in a fastpaced environment with minimal supervision. Individual must be a team player willing to do what is needed to get the job done
Essential Duties/ Job Responsibilities:
- Accountable for analyzing presentstate developing alternative futurestate approaches and facilitating implementation.
- Lead and/or participate in requirements gathering and analysis sessions with clients to determine project requirements
- Guides and facilitates stakeholders in defining and documenting project scope objectives requirements and deliverables
- Independently manages assigned projects to ensure outcomes match agreed upon customer expectations and outcomes.
- Troubleshoots technical issues and collaboratively with technical teams to identify and implement solutions.
- Coordinate with internal resources and other stakeholders for the flawless execution of projects.
- Manages relationship with vendor/serviceproviders and drives them to meet their commitments
- Exhibit excellent communication & interpersonal skills and the ability to work and lead effectively in a team environment.
- Masters new technologies and deliver quality products within short time frames.
- Serve as the technical lead for assigned projects and tasks.
- Work collaboratively with others (e.g. colleagues stakeholders vendors) to drive timely completion of IT projects.
- Lead project team status meetings to ensure the project milestones are met and dependencies are tracked.
- Conduct detailed analysis of business processes systems and workflows to identify areas for improvement and automation.
- Perform postimplementation reviews to ensure goals were met and identify lessons learned.
- Manage the full lifecycle of complex IT projects and/or programs from initiation to closure ensuring successful delivery within budget scope and schedule constraints.
- Monitor project progress and provide regular project status reports to stakeholders including project health risks and issues.
- Manage project risks and issues identifying and mitigating potential roadblocks and providing solutions to ensure successful outcomes.
- Manage project scope changes and ensure that they are documented reviewed and approved by stakeholders.
- Create manage and maintain the project schedule from initial creation throughout entire project life cycle.
- Create and maintain all forms of project documentation and records.
- Collaborate with internal teams and stakeholders to ensure project success.
- Compile accurate and timely daily/weekly project status reports.
- Ensure IT systems and workflows are welldocumented for future reference.
- Participate in QA and UAT planning and execution.
- Ability to prioritize projects and address immediate technical needs as they arise.
Desired Education and Experience
- Minimum of 57 years of experience in project management/business analysis or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Strong understanding of project management methodologies is required
- Project management and coordination skills for leading and supporting multiple interdepartmental projects and initiatives
- Capable of providing gap analysis and needs assessments to uncover business needs.
- Experience building user stories and use cases
- Strong experience leading facilitating and motivating teams for small to medium IT projects required
- Strong understanding and experience working with business units in achieving their goals required
- Ability to identify business and information needs uncovering areas for improvement develop appropriate business solutions while working closely with internal developers business teams and/or vendors on developing and implementing solutions.
- Ability to develop productive working relationships communicate clearly and collaborate with people across the organization; ability to manage projects to successful conclusion.
- Demonstrable experience in managing vendor relations and partnerships within the project lifecycle.
- Strong organizational multitasking and time management skills required
- Strong verbal written and interpersonal skills across all levels of the organization required
- Understanding of IT systems and processes with the ability to communicate technical information to nontechnical stakeholders.
- Advanced troubleshooting critical thinking analytical problemsolving writing and communication skills.
- Ability to prioritize competing projects in order to propose effective alternatives to resolve end user concerns.
- Partners with the business to develop and transition plans including ongoing success measures to sustain the change.
- Advanced knowledge of project management practices and methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to be flexible and adaptable to change to move between projects easily and provide support/expertise where needed
- Assist with quality assurance procedures to ensure that requirements were met or that specified changes were correctly implemented.
- Ability to assist in the development of comprehensive test cases at the application and multiapplication levels. Assisting with enduser testing responsibilities.
- Knowledge of different testing methods test cases test scripts automated testing and other aspects of testing
- Proven ability to selfmanage and complete deliverables.
- Excellent time management organization and planning skills
- Must be well organized and detail oriented.
- Strong understanding of healthcare enterprise systems with the ability to understand and communicate from a business and technical perspective.
Previous Experience working with a COTS based provider Highly Desired