Job Description

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• Candidateage a consolidated project plan and schedule, day to day work of the project team, task assignments, priorities, team deliverables, issues and risks, stakeholder engagement, project communication and project financials.
• Lead the project team to work effectively and efficiently toward project objectives in a complex and diverse environment with multiple stakeholders and changing priorities to ensure high quality deliverables.
• Provide regular communication and status updates to the Candidateager on all aspects of the project.
• Prepare briefings, presentations and other project documentation for Senior Candidateagers and C Level Executives for the purpose of obtaining approvals.
• Manage project issues and risks (e.g., identifies, monitors, escalates, resolves, and reports) through the team.
• Escalate issues to the Candidateager. Inform the issues logs and risk registers for the overall project, if applicable.
• Lead, facilitate, coordinate project team meetings.
• Track action items, decision items, risks and issues that come out of meetings and update the Candidateager.
• Work closely with project stakeholders to ensure the objectives of the project are being met.
• CollaboXX with various internal or external service providers/partners to plan/align project dependencies and/or integXX solution components.
• Define/clarify roles and responsibilities and set deliverables/quality/ performance expectations for project resources.
• Champion the agile/scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team, clients and/or stakeholders in order to ensure success.
• Schedule and facilitate agile/scrum events including but not limited to backlog management, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Direct project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered based on sprint/project goals and adhere to quality standards.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Technology Leadership 30%:

• 10+ years experience in technology project management, at least 5+ years must include projects that required large technology procurements.
• DemonstXXd experience gathering and developing requirements in order to create and maintain project schedules and integrated plans.
• Demonstrated experience using the agile / scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team, clients and/or stakeholders in order to ensure success.
• Demonstrated experience scheduling and facilitating agile/scrum events including but not limited to backlog management, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Demonstrated experience with identifying and defining architectural requirements.
• Demonstrated experience with change management.
• Demonstrated experience identifying risks and providing proper mitigation strategies.
• Demonstrated experience managing the implementation of application, infrastructure or migration activities.
• Experience with Change Candidateagement and Release Candidateagement as processes supporting the implementation of large enterprise applications.
• Experience with ITIL processes such as Service Level Candidateagement, Problem Candidateagement, Change Candidateagement, Release Candidateagement, and Capacity Candidateagement.

Technology Experience 30%:

• Demonstrated experience with the design of new enterprise and application layers.
• Ability to define, identify and describe information architectural requirements with clients.
• Demonstrated experience with common, consistent, shareable, re-usable and extensible data structures.
• Knowledge of application and infrastructure design.
• 5+ years of experience with quality control and assurance methodologies and practices as applied to the implementation of large applications.

Vendor Candidateagement Experience:

• Demonstrated experience managing large procurements, i.e., procurements resulting in multi-year contract durations and total values over $2M.
• Demonstrated experience with the full lifecycle of public procurements, including: requirements development, Request for Bids (RFB) development, publishing, evaluation, contract award and vendor onboarding.
• Demonstrated experience working with and managing external vendor relationships.
• Demonstrated experience drafting a SOW, work orders and contract negotiations.
• Demonstrated vendor management experience in the client/government setting, understanding of procurement practices.

Stakeholder Candidateagement 20%:

• Demonstrated experience effectively communicating with teams, clients, various stakeholders and senior management.
• Demonstrated experience reporting on progress of deliverables, milestones, issues and risks to various audiences, including steering committees and formal status reporting.
• Demonstrated experience preparing documentation such as presentations, other technical documentation/deliverables (i.e., technical strategy document, option analysis) etc.
• Experience providing updates and advice to senior management.
• Experience presenting to executive steering committees responsible for project oversight and decision-making.