IT Project Manager

position requires a project manager with critical skills, including in-depth knowledge of accountability data and reporting requirements as well as IT technical and vendor management skills.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Support MSDE agency and statewide applications including WDCS (Web Data Collection System), Maryland Report Card, MODE (Maryland Online Data Exchange), MOVEit SFTP Secure Server,
• PowerSchool 5-234 Minimum School Funding financial dashboard, Educator Retention Dashboard, WCAG 2.1 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, MSDE Corporate Branding initiatives, AWS on-prem
• to cloud server migrations, Smartsheet PMO applications, and other duties as assigned.
• Perform day-to-day project management, identify issues and risks, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Act as a facilitator between MSDE, DoIT, and Local Education Agencies (LEAs).
• Ensure work performed is within scope, consistent with requirements, and delivered on time and on budget.
• Identify critical paths, tasks, dates, testing, and acceptance criteria; monitor issues and provide resolutions for up-to-date status reports.
• Coordinate with vendors and assign project staff as needed across functional/technical areas; serve as primary contact with each vendor s PM team and state resources.
• Coordinate deliverables, work product reviews/approvals, and set priorities when choices of alternatives are required; report project status information to Executive
• Sponsor/Committees/stakeholders.
• Completion and management of project documentation activities, including:
• Document Agile scrum, product backlog, and sprint backlog artifacts in Jira, MS Teams, and Smartsheet.
• Initiate Change Control Board (CCB) and new project intake requests in Smartsheet.
• Manage SDLC artifacts in accordance with State of Maryland DoIT policies/templates.
• Respond to monthly vulnerability-scan findings with remediation plans.
• Maintain the Project Management Plan, schedule, and WBS; maintain BRD, FRD, and RTM.
• Manage System Test Plans and test scripts for internal QA and stakeholder UAT.
• Maintain Operations and Maintenance Plans; update project plan with scope/task/date/resource/risks/issues changes; maintain status reports and lessons learned.

Minimum Qualifications Required

• Bachelor s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of progressive IT project management experience leading multi-vendor, multi-agency enterprise projects.
• Demonstrated experience delivering projects using Agile practices (scrum, backlog management) within a governed SDLC.
• Hands-on proficiency with Jira, Microsoft Teams, and Smartsheet for planning, tracking, collaboration, and reporting.
• Experience with change control/CCB, risk/issue management, and executive-level status reporting.
• Experience managing enterprise data collection and reporting platforms and/or cloud migration initiatives (e.g., AWS).
• Familiarity with government IT governance (e.g., State of Maryland DoIT PM artifacts/templates) and vulnerability management processes.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or PMI-ACP (or PRINCE2 Practitioner) certification required, or equivalent demonstrable expertise.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and vendor coordination skills