Senior IT Project Manager
About The Position
We are Skyward, a people-centered business with a desire to serve others through information technology. We are diverse and unified, creative and collaborative, and driven by a civic tech mission. Our values are integrity, compassion, inquisitiveness, unconventionality, and authenticity. We are seeking a Senior Project Manager who listens to understand, picks up on what's unsaid, has a tight grasp on context, and writes well. This role involves creating strategic plans, schedules, project requirements, and deliverables, and then following up on those plans. The Senior Project Manager will support the Department of Transportation's Office of the Chief Technology Officer, ensuring cost-effective and efficient technology to meet information needs, aligning IT investments with strategic goals, and creating modernization plans for existing IT systems. The role also includes analyzing implemented systems, identifying areas for innovation, and documenting project scope, budget, and justification.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience planning and executing projects.
- 2-4 years of experience managing federal IT projects that includes web, enterprise or cloud-based applications.
- Bachelor’s degree and PMP certification.
- Agile certification (i.e., PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Product Owner).
- Experience with one or more different agile methodologies, including Scrum, Lean, or SAFe.
- Experience working in a PMO.
- Experience documenting and writing things.
- Experience using Jira and Confluence.
Nice To Haves
- Entire project management experience has been supporting various federal agencies.
- Eat, sleep, and breathe IT project management methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Support the Department of Transportation's Office of the Chief Technology Officer.
- Ensure the office is using the most cost-effective and efficient technology to meet current and future information needs.
- Ensure the alignment of IT investments with the office’s strategic goals and objectives.
- Create, update, and maintain a modernization plan for existing IT systems that includes scope, an implementation strategy, schedule, results-oriented goals, and measures.
- Conduct analyses of previously implemented systems, ensuring each system is meeting customer and business needs, and identify areas for innovation.
- Accurately document project's creation, development, and execution as well as document the project's scope, budget, and justification.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- 15 days of paid leave
- 7 days of sick leave
- 2 days bereavement leave
- 11 paid Federal holidays
- Up to 40 hours for jury duty
- 401K with 4% employer contribution (and no vesting period)
- Up to 4 weeks of paid paternity and maternity leave
- Company provided laptop
- $5,000 per year for professional development
- $600 per year for technical supplies and equipment
- $2,000 referral bonus
- Life and disability insurance
- HSA and FSA
- Legal Shield and ID Shield Voluntary Benefits
- Opportunity to work in a collaborative, motivated team focused on modernizing government services with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions.
- Flexible working hours
- Remote opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
