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Looking for a result oriented and adaptable individual with a can do attitude to lead business intelligence projects, legacy, and modernized software/application development projects for our business partners. This project manager will lead multiple projects from small to multi-million-dollar development efforts. The project manager will work with other project managers in DCF and possibly with other State of WI Departments such as the Department of Administration (DOA) and the Department of Health Services (DHS). The person in this role will lead the business intelligence and software/application development team members to complete projects and work closely with our business partners to ensure success.
The individual in this position will:
- Be responsible for technical and overall project management on enterprise-wide business intelligence, software/application development, and infrastructure/ architecture projects.
- Works closely with the project sponsor and IT senior management to understand and prioritize project tasks. Solve complex technical problems. Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs feasibility studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives in support of enterprise-wide business intelligence.
- Build an effective team and direct the work of the project team to meet project milestones. Develops standards, policies and procedures for the form, structure and attributes of the business intelligence documentation, tools, and systems. Develops data/information quality metrics.
- Develop and maintain project charters, plans, deliverables, and other project artifacts.
- Work closely with the project sponsor and IT senior management to understand and prioritize project tasks, solve complex technical problems, understand business objectives and problems, identify alternative solutions, and perform feasibility studies and cost/benefit analysis.
- Research new technology and develop business cases to support enterprise-wide business intelligence solutions. Participate in special projects as required.
- Have 12+ years of project management experience with leading large and complex database management systems, business intelligence tools and systems.
- Selected candidate must provide copies of any/all certifications as part of the hiring process.
The candidate should have strong communication skills and should be a team player.
Qualification | Must Have/Nice to Have | Experience |
Change management | Must Have | 5+ years |
Project management | Must Have | 12+ years |
In depth knowledge of System development life cycle deliverables for each phase of development | Must Have | 12+ years |
Demonstrated competence in promoting understanding and cooperation within and between organizations | Must Have | 12+years |
Group facilitation | Must Have | 12+ years |
Experience in technical writing and documentation | Must Have | 10+ years |
Analytical/problem solving skills | Must Have | 10+ years |
Excellent oral and written communication skills | Must Have | 10+ years |
Excel (MS) | Must Have | 10+ years |
Outlook | Must Have | 10+ years |
MS Office Products | Must Have | 10+ years |
MS Project | Nice to Have | 3+ years |
Expertise in implementation of large, complicated models and processes | Must Have | 5+ years |
Excellent organization, analytical and communication skills | Must Have | 10 years |
Strong verbal communications skills with ability to clearly present information and ideas to groups | Must Have | 12+ years |
User test, system test and user acceptance test plans | Must Have | 5+ years |
Data analysis | Must Have | 5+ years |
Informatica | Must Have | 5+ years |
Data Warehouse experience in data warehouse design and development | Must Have | 5+ years |
Data Warehouse - Experience in requirements gathering for data warehouse | Must Have | 5+ years |
Knowledge of Kimball data warehouse design principals | Nice to Have | 5+ years |
In-depth knowledge of system development life cycle deliverables for each phase of development | Must Have | 5+ years |
Requirements analysis | Must Have | 5+ years |
Requirements gathering | Must Have | 5+ years |
Scope & Risk Management | Must Have | 12+ years |
Business Objects or other BI tools | Must Have | 5+ years |
Demonstrated experience in the design and utilization of performance measures and reports | Nice to Have | 3+ years |
State of Wisconsin Privacy Regulations | Nice to Have | Previous experience |
Work with customers to solve problems and support their needs | Must Have | 10+ years |
Top Skills Required:
- Thorough understanding of industry standard project management methodologies and reporting including PMP (or similar industry standard) Certification
- Strong customer service and relationship management experience
- Experience managing multiple in-flight business intelligence/data warehousing and application development projects simultaneously.
- Project documentation skills and experience to support project chartering, scoping, and other project deliverables
Please note the qualifications for this position per the contract:
The Project Manager III Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams. Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI's framework. Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor. Creates project charter and work plan, and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics. Establishes project organization and methodologies and defines roles and responsibilities. Documents risks and develop mitigation plans. Manages scope. Project Manager capabilities with 12 or more years of experience. Capable of managing a project with up to ten (10) or more staff and/or a project with multiple subprojects. Experience with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.