Enterprise Systems Project Manager

S R International • Phoenix, AZ

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The City of Phoenix is seeking a Junior Enterprise Systems Upgrade Project Manager to lead a multi-phase upgrade of a specialized enterprise software platform. The role coordinates technical teams, business stakeholders, and software vendors through complex system migrations, data model transitions, and integrations across interconnected applications. The project manager oversees technical workstreams, project risks, testing, and deployment activities, and supports adoption of new tools, workflows, and data structures. The position is a contract assignment through April 25, 2027, based onsite in Phoenix, Arizona. The schedule is Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, for 40 hours per week; local candidates only.

The role also involves coordinating enterprise system upgrades and data transformations, maintaining interface continuity, managing vendor deliverables, monitoring risks and dependencies, and preparing project schedules, status reports, decision logs, migration documentation, and other project artifacts.

Requirements

• Experience managing enterprise system upgrades or transitions involving complex data structures and multiple deployment environments.
• Experience coordinating schema changes, rule-based validation, and data model modernization.
• Ability to guide technical subject matter experts, interpret technical requirements, and develop actionable project plans.
• Understanding of integrations between enterprise systems, downstream applications, reporting tools, and operational workflows.
• Experience coordinating software vendors and professional services teams during structured implementations.
• Strong communication, cross-department coordination, stakeholder engagement, and executive-level reporting skills.
• Ability to identify, assess, track, and mitigate project risks and dependencies.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with development, testing, and production environments and structured promotion workflows.
• Familiarity with systems that use topological, connectivity-based, or rule-based validation.

Responsibilities

• Manage planning, execution, and delivery of major upgrades to mission-critical enterprise systems with multiple dependent applications.
• Coordinate technical subject matter experts through migrations from legacy data models to modern, rules-based models, ensuring data validation, quality control, and documentation.
• Identify upstream and downstream system impacts, maintain interface continuity, and coordinate changes to workflows, APIs, and automated processes.
• Serve as the primary liaison with software vendors and professional services teams, tracking deliverables, risks, and project alignment.
• Coordinate configuration, testing, deployment, data migration, environment setup, and system validation across technical teams.
• Support adoption of new tools, workflows, and data structures through training, communication, and stakeholder readiness activities.
• Maintain risk registers, monitor cross-team dependencies, and proactively escalate issues.
• Oversee functional testing, regression testing, and validation of new configurations and data structures.
• Prepare project schedules, status reports, decision logs, migration documentation, and other project artifacts.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed