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Job Summary

Our client is looking for an experienced Sr. IT Project Manager, local to Utah, and with at least 8 years of experience managing large, complex projects.

The ideal candidate will lead our transition from Informix to a more modern, mainstream database management system hosted with cloud services to enhance our data processing capabilities and support future scalability and performance needs.  As an IT Project Manager, you'll lead one or more DevOps Teams responsible for the planning, development, and maintenance of large, complex systems. You'll play a vital part in the overall leadership of the client's Application Development Agile Release Train, collaborating closely with Agency Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and other cross-functional technical groups.

This position demands a strong understanding of computer systems, platforms, application development processes, systems analysis, project management practices, and tools. Additionally, exceptional interpersonal, facilitation, and collaboration skills are essential for success in this cross-functional team environment.  This role is crucial for ensuring that the client remains competitive and capable of meeting the demands of their customers with efficient, reliable, and scalable database solutions.

We utilize a JAVA-based web platform, and our SDLC process follows the Scaled Agile Framework for enterprises (SAFe) model. The Agencies we support are actively pursuing innovative strategic plans, including a major initiative to modernize their core systems. This is an exciting time to join their team!

Primary Duties:

• Manage projects through the entire project life cycle
• Facilitate meetings that include stakeholders from multiple levels and functions
• Work closely with the customer to capture product requirements/user stories
• Create and maintain project plans and documentation throughout the entire project
• Maintain ongoing status reports of projects
• Monitor project budget including expenditures and projections
• Meet and confer with management, users, and contract providers to resolve problems and coordinate services
• Actively contribute to problem resolutions; approve system changes and establish project priorities
• Coordinates projects and ensures adequate administrative controls, quality, and procedural efficiencies
• Sets goals, establishes priorities, manages resources, develops concepts and approaches, reviews project progress and results; and makes project management decisions
• Provides technical assistance on agency issues, services, program(s), and/or computer hardware and software, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Serve on the Scrum Team managing the Agile Release Train (ART) DevOps teams for the SAFe software development operation
• Apply, manage, and adhere to software development practices outlined in key operational documents like the Software Development Methodology (SDLC) Roadmap, Software Development Methodology (SDM), and Software Project Responsibilities and Status Report Instructions
• Project Manage assigned projects, facilitate and coordinate with your DevOps team(s).
• Leverage provided resources and training to provide system analysis expertise, collaborating with agency business groups, external and/or internal DTS platform or website dev elopment, infrastructure or desktop support groups, and/or contracted vendors, to achieve defined and often innovative IT solutions
• Lead assigned Agile DevOps Team(s) and Projects to c nsistently:
  • Deliver Quarterly plans with a team Program Predictability Measure (PPM) within 80% - 100%
  • Produce Product specifications aligned with the defined and approved Minimum Viable Product (MVP), including official revisions
  • Develop Software Applications and/or Features that meet system specifications and standards, including official revisions
  • Deliver Projects within a single month's variance of the estimated target release date
  • Create Products that meet DTS and Unit technical, security, and regulatory standards
  • Maintain consistent, clear, concise, and transparent communication and collaboration with all cross-functional team members and management
  • Ensure accurate and up-to-date Business Application inventory data
• Perform Project Management duties within the ART's SAFe Framework to directly manage the assigned DevOps Team(s), including activities such as:
  • Creating and maintaining project documentation to ensure project scope and requirements are clearly defined and meet objectives outlined in the project charter
  • Managing timeboxes, dependencies, ambiguities, and assignments, and providing overall project management
  • Participating in all SAFe Ceremonies
  • Ensuring timely Project and Program Increment (PI) preparation and planning activities are completed within the defined SAFe cadence
  • Orienting and holding project participants and DevOps team members accountable for their roles, responsibilities, and task assignments
  • Creating, maintaining, and making available project plans and visual aids, including milestones and tasks, to drive project work
  • Utilizing Jira Software to track and manage all work while maintaining data integrity and making timely updates aligned with SAFe methodology
  • Generating and distributing monthly status reports for the previous month's work, maintaining a consistent layout with other team reports
  • Maintaining project status in all project management platforms with monthly updates for the previous month's work
  • Ensuring accessibility, responsive design, and security standards compliance
  • Communicating with product owners, product managers, technical staff, and leadership to resolve operational problems
  • Conducting and skillfully facilitating meetings to achieve objectives and build positive team collaboration
  • Ensuring development and other task work is assigned, moves smoothly through the SDLC, and progress is frequently tracked against milestone deadlines
  • Managing and maintaining developer Work-in-Progress limits as defined by SAFe
  • Managing application test cycles, ensuring they are scheduled, tracked, and issues are escalated and addressed efficiently and timely
  • Ensuring training efforts are planned, prepared in advance, and delivered on time
  • Managing Product Delivery, Production Deployment, and Post-Production Support efforts to ensure they are carefully coordinated to conclusion
  • Staying current with emerging application development technologies, concepts, and practices
  • Participating on committees addressing and reporting on development activities
  • Assisting with updating documentation like desk aids, guidelines, and manuals

Required Knowledge/Skills/Abilities (KSA's):

• IT Project Management concepts, elements, practices, and tools
• Application of Project Management practices in software application development
• Understanding of project definitions, scope, objectives, business workflow processes and diagrams, application and database requirements, business functional specifications, design and technical specifications, business and technical standards documents, test case scenarios, and other analysis and design tasks and reports
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) application me