Senior IT Project Manager (Hybrid at Austin, TX)

Job Title: Senior IT Project Manager

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid)

Description:

As the Senior IT/Technical Project Manager, your job is to plan, budget, oversee and document all aspects of the specific project you are working on. Project managers might work by themselves or be in charge of a team to get the job done.

The Project Manager position is an Information Technology (IT) position and will be a part of the Performance Management & Analytics System (PMAS) team supporting several PMAS projects under the Office of Chief Data Architect in IT domain to expand competencies in Data Integration.

High-level responsibilities may include:

• Ensuring constant communication with the Office of Data Analytics & Reporting to function as a blended, partnered team with IT.
• Working seamlessly and smoothly with various IT and business stakeholder areas to ensure that project deliverables are compliant with state, federal, and other applicable agency standards.
• Establishing a strategic roadmap for projects in coordination with the TSS vendor and all divisions of HHS and federal stakeholders.
• Conducting procurement exercises as necessary to acquire vendor services for assessment or to outsource the effort to a long-term vendor.
• Establishing timeline and resource requirements for successful execution of the project. Coordination with key stakeholders and sponsors to obtain approval of resources and timeline.
• Creation of project management deliverables necessary for this project.
• Management of the day-to-day operations and scrums of various projects, and oversight and coordination team established for this initiative.
• Risk identification and coordination of resolution with project leadership.

Required skills/experience:

• IT project management experience.
• Work experience in the information technology industry with at least 5 years of experience involvement in data management solutions (i.e., data warehouses, data lakes, etc.), data analytics/business intelligence, web-based (J2EE) development, or SOA-related.
• Complete experience with the project management lifecycle (PMLC) and software development lifecycle (SDLC) required.
• Tracking full project budget and entering actual costs in project tracking tool.
• Leading project sprints using Agile methodologies, including planning increments, backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily scrums and retrospective, and Kanban.
• Team management through team meetings, task assignment, mentoring, facilitation and training.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Nice to Have:

• Prior experience in the Healthcare Industry, specifically public health.