Project Manager
IntegrateUs LLC ·Austin, TXClosing in
Term:Full timeWork:Onsite
Type:EmployeeContract
We are looking for a Full-time contractor or employee for an Project Manager role.
- Perform project management work as a member of IT PMO, overseeing one or more projects concurrently. Work involves coordinating the initiation, planning, scheduling, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing of assigned IT projects.
- Follow the project management life cycle (PMLC) including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing one or more projects.
- Follow the agency’s Information Technology Handbook, standard operating procedures on the PMLC, Review Gates, project management artifacts, and archiving.
- Manage all aspects of a technology related project.
- Ensure project tasks and products follow the development process and quality guidelines while meeting both functional and contractual requirements.
- Apply the software/systems development life cycle (SDLC) including Requirements, Design, Code/Configure, Test (System, User Acceptance, Regression, Round Trip, Smoke), Change Management/Deployment, Warranty period, and Transition to Maintenance.
- Work with peers from user area and contractor staff to coordinate, plan, assign, supervise, and evaluate the work of the project staff in a matrixed organization structure.
- Manage deliverable content expectations, review processes, and acceptance criteria.
- Ensure deliverables meet the agreed upon quality and content.
- Develop and manage project budgets, schedules, work plans, resource requirements, and cost estimates and projections.
- Ensure all team members understand the project standards and resolve challenges with the quality of any party's work products.
- Communicate with the project stakeholders, management, and other relevant parties.
- Monitor and evaluate third-party vendor and contractor performance.
- Document detailed system requirements.
- Work independently with minimal supervision and meet tight deadlines.
- Perform other duties as assigned to maintain IT operations.
Required Skills:
- Full-time experience in IT Project Management work, business analysis, or project administration. Experience managing complex projects throughout all development phases
- Experience in structured design and development process, scope control, project estimation, risk mitigation, and preventive and corrective actions for overruns
- Experience managing project activities; establishing project goals and objectives; exercising sound judgment in making critical decisions; analyzing complex information and developing plans to address identified issues; demonstrate negotiation and facilitation skills; identify project risks and gaps; prepare reports; and communicate effectively
- Experience reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating business systems and user and stakeholder needs
- Experience facilitating and documenting business process mapping and business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to business problems that make a business more effective
- Experience documenting detailed requirements for information technology solutions that will meet program and user needs
- Experience simultaneously collecting requirements across multiple program areas or organizations that are geographically dispersed and that have varying business needs
Preferred Skills:
- Knowledge of IT Project Management theories and practices applicable to projects that are complex in scope; of systems and procedures used to evaluate a third-party vendor’s performance; and of local, state, and federal laws and regulations relevant to the administration of the project undertaken
- Experience in structured design and development process, scope control, project estimation, risk mitigation, and preventive and corrective actions for overruns
- Experience presenting to program and IT management, project Sponsors, and Executive leadership
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
