Senior Project Manager

Project Manager Location: Austin TexasWork location can be remote in Texas. Experience: Minimum 15-20 Years

Job Details

The Project Manager will report to the Assistant Director of the Information Technology Services (IT) Program ManagementOffice (PMO). The Project Manager is responsible for delivering vital enterprise software applications/infrastructure usedthroughout the State of Texas to deliver time-sensitive legislative requirements and support the rapid improvements necessaryto align with the agency’s strategic priorities. The ideal candidate will have experience as a senior project manager for asoftware development team executing the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and have experience working in an educationdomain. The Project Manager may oversee, direct, assign duties, and evaluate the work of project staff. Also, this individualmay coordinate or communicate on project activities with other state agencies, governmental jurisdictions, or private sectorpartners and contractors. The Project Manager performs advanced levels of project management work, works under limitedsupervision and has considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. This individual will work with awide range of team members, including senior leadership throughout the agency, and serve as a representative of the IT.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Process Consistency: Direct, develop, evaluate, and establish processes used by application project teams to ensure theteams are adhering to procedures consistently and confirm scope and schedule changes are documented, approved, andunderstood by stakeholders and project team members. Oversee and develop project budgets, schedules, works plans,resource requirements with resource managers, cost estimates, and cost projections. Document and monitor exceptions tostandard IT policies, processes, and best practices.• Deliverable Quality: Oversees, monitors, and manages the quality of multiple highly complex applications and works toidentify continuous improvement measures/root cause and corrective actions. Verifies project deliverables are acceptable, fulfillterms of the team agreements, and are within time and budget. May oversee the deliverables of contract work.• Customer Satisfaction: Communicates routinely to management, customers, project team members, and other stakeholders,actively soliciting and addressing customer and project team feedback.• Leadership: Responsible for problem management, issue resolution, and risk identification and mitigation, while empoweringand motivating the team to have a sense of ownership over the application. Establish and manage a cross-functional team.• Vision: Articulates a clear view (current and future) of the application to the executive management team, customers, andproject team. Evaluate enterprise-level projects on defining and meeting strategic goals and objectives for projects; coordinatethe initiation and planning of diverse projects to meet application and technology roadmap commitments. Balance andarticulate the effort of the functionality with the value for the IT applications.

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Direct project management experience.Experience working with the state budget.Azure based productsExperience working with financial systems development team

V. OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Required• Certified Texas Contract Manager (CTCM) preferred.• Experience with Agile software development and release methodologies Required• Experience with Dynamics365 Customer Service Enterprise Required• Willingness and availability to work outside the regular work hours, as needed, to support project needs.• A desire to self-reflect, give/receive feedback, and continuously improve.• Expertise in developing a collaborative, results-oriented team environment, and work across multiple stakeholders.• Demonstrate critical thinking abilities by asking questions and, synthesizing, and analyzing complex information to makesound decisions.• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and an ability to connect with a variety of audiences.• Knowledge and appreciation of project management theories and practices applied to complex projects.• Prior experience developing contract-related documents, contract management, and cost monitoring.• A strong customer-service mindset focused on meeting the needs of critical stakeholders.• Skill at motivating and influencing others where there is not a direct reporting relationship.