Senior IT Project Manager
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager to lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and successful delivery of complex IT and business transformation projects.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing enterprise-wide initiatives, coordinating cross-functional teams, overseeing project governance, and ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in compliance with organizational standards. Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills are essential.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and manage comprehensive project plans, including scope, schedule, budget, resources, risk, and communication plans.
- Define project objectives, deliverables, milestones, and success criteria in collaboration with business and technical stakeholders.
- Lead cross-functional project teams, business units, vendors, and external partners to ensure successful project execution.
- Monitor project progress, track milestones, budgets, and resource utilization to ensure timely delivery.
- Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies while driving timely resolution and escalation.
- Facilitate project meetings, stakeholder communications, executive status reporting, and governance reviews.
- Manage project scope changes through formal change management and change control processes.
- Oversee vendor performance, contractual deliverables, and third-party engagements.
- Ensure compliance with organizational governance, procurement policies, regulatory requirements, and project management standards.
- Maintain project documentation, status reports, meeting minutes, risk registers, and other project artifacts.
- Support project audits, quality assurance activities, and governance reviews.
- Lead project closure activities, including final deliverable acceptance, documentation, lessons learned, and transition to operations.
- Promote collaboration and effective communication among technical teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field (or equivalent experience).8+ years of experience managing large-scale IT or business transformation projects.
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, including PMI/PMBOK, Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid approaches.
- Proven experience developing and managing project schedules, budgets, resource plans, and project timelines.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple stakeholders across technical and business organizations.
- Extensive experience with project risk management, issue tracking, dependency management, and change control.
- Strong executive communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience using project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
- Strong understanding of project governance, compliance, procurement, and organizational policies.
- Excellent leadership, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certification or equivalent.
- Experience working in public sector or state government organizations.
- Experience managing projects under state procurement frameworks such as FAST, DIR, or similar contracts.
- Experience delivering enterprise application implementations, IT infrastructure projects, data systems, or digital transformation initiatives.
- Familiarity with public safety, law enforcement, or government technology environments.
- Required
Technical Skills
- Project Management
- PMI / PMBOKAgile & Scrum
- Waterfall
- Hybrid Project Management
- Microsoft Project
- Smartsheet
- Jira
- Azure DevOpsRisk Management
- Change Management
- Budget & Resource Management
- Vendor Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Governance
- Executive Reporting
- IT System Implementations
- Enterprise Applications
- Soft
Skills
- Strong leadership and decision-making abilities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Executive-level presentation and stakeholder management.
- Strong planning, organization, and time management.
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Collaborative team player with a results-oriented mindset.
