Senior Project Manager
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Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Sacramento CA
Position Type: Contract
Contract Duration: 3 years with two 1 year optional extensions
Anvaya Solutions is seeking a Senior Project Manager who will act as a member of the project management staff of the client responsible for planning organizing and leading teams to develop and implement technology solutions which are essential to client.
Candidate shall
- Possess knowledge and experience in all areas of the PMBOK as well as soft skills such as: organization time management customer service decision making leadership organizational awareness problem solving reasoning team building oral and written communication.
- Provide leadership to all project management phases (Waterfall/Agile) to ensure efficient and effective delivery of IT products and services. It also may include updating or refactoring batch processes that use stored procedures rearchitecting the existing application defect fixing developing new Application Programming Interface (API) scripts converting pdf forms to webforms Data Manipulation Language (DML) scripts and ondemand procedures.
- Perform the work onsite at clients facilities located in Sacramento CA. As a result of the COVID19 pandemic the client has temporarily authorized work from home for contractors. However work from home days will need to be approved in advance.
Mandatory Qualifications: The Consultant MUST possess the following minimum qualifications.
- Minimum of seven 7 years of FTE experience of broad extensive and increasingly responsible PM project experience applying project management (PM) principles methods techniques and tools.
- At least four 4 years of that experience must have been in a Senior Project Manager
- A Bachelors Degree
- PMI PMP Certification
Desired Qualifications:
- Up to five 5 additional years beyond the mandatory seven 7 years of experience providing project management services (Agile or Waterfall)
- SAFe Agilist certification or experience as an Agile Scrum Master
- Experience with Project Approval Lifecycle (PAL) process
Tasks / Deliverables:
- Serve as a senior project manager to provide leadership for multiple IT projects of varying size and complexity.
- Plan develop and implement technology solutions or services that are essential to Enterprise Technology Services (ETS).
- Work with internal and external stakeholders technical personnel and system sponsors to provide leadership for all project management and software development life cycle phases (Waterfall/Agile).
- Determine the appropriate level of stakeholder engagement to define scope and project deliverables.
- Develop all project artifacts and documentation throughout the project life cycle including but not limited to concept statements project charters work breakdown structures project schedules and all facets of cohesive project management plans.
- Establish and implement effective communication strategies.
- Generate executive level project status reports and facilitate sponsor/steering committee meetings; be prepared to discuss all aspects of project status.
- Manage business relationships cross functionally.
- Manage resources and cost where needed.
- Schedule and facilitate project related meetings to drive needed progress.
- Manage risks and issues cross functionally; use interpersonal skills to ensure mitigation plans are established.
- Proactively solve problems to remove barriers inhibiting progress; actively plan engagement of sponsor team members when required.
- Analyze information and troubleshoot challenging situations reason logically and draw valid conclusions.
- Create and maintain a positive collaborative working environment.
- Ensure project management best practices processes and procedures are consistently applied to all information technology projects following the Clients Project Management Framework.
- Can assist with Project Approval Lifecycle (PAL) stage gate documentation.
- Ensure that the reporting requirements of the Departments control agencies are met.
- Report to the project manager and/or contract manager on a daily/weekly/monthly basis regarding project issues risks and status.
- Complete a timesheet monthly to allow client to track hours.
- Perform other project management duties as requested by the contract manager.
- Evaluate all business needs and gather requirements for IT systems managing affiliated data. Understand strategic need and plans for growth while developing and implementing forwardfacing solutions.
- Ensure the new solutions operate efficiently and add value to the Department as a whole and to external stakeholders.
Resumes should include:
- Persons formal name
- Educational credentials highest grade completed degrees obtained (if applicable) and when obtained (e.g. month and year)
- Employment history for up to the past five years including employer name length of employment position or functional title from and to dates and a very brief description of roles and responsibilities. Employment data should be presented with the most recent employment first and should reflect employment by the Respondent unless the person is serving as a subcontractor. Technical educational or industry specific certificates (if applicable such as a Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate and relevant to the service to be performed) and/or licenses and when obtained (e.g. month and year)
NOTE: This role is for a specific client engagement and employment is tied to ongoing client demand.
Anvaya Solutions Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
