Project Manager - W2 only - Albany, NY -Onsite

Project Manager

Plans, organizes and integrates cross-functional information technology projects that are significant in scope and impact. Expert 84+ months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.

1. 84 months experience in managing and leading multiple large, complex IT projects for functioning as the project manager. Large, complex IT projects are defined primarily as those with the following characteristics: budget over $1,000,000, duration over 12 months, multiple funding sources including Federal and grant funding, management of third party vendors, management of external stakeholders, multi-level project team organization, deployment to geographically diverse end users. Experience must include at least one example of a Large, complex IT Project completed or in progress led by the candidate and managed in the NYS ITSM system.
2. 84 months experience developing and executing project plans including management of Charter, Scope, Schedule, Cost, Quality, Communication, Change, Risk, Issue, Resource management plans, and managing the plans throughout the project management lifecycle from initiation through closeout. Experience must include at least one example of an IT Project completed or in progress led by the candidate and managed using the NYS PMBOK.
3. 84 months of experience in developing and managing formal project schedules in a project tracking tool, such as Microsoft Project, including tracking progress and variances against baselines utilizing both Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid methodologies; using standard PM techniques (e.g., scrum sessions) to update project schedule; and presenting schedule/status updates to both ITS and client agency's leaderships.
4. 84 months experience developing, writing, and managing detailed Scope Document, reviewing project deliverables and managing the deliverables acceptance process and using the project scope and deliverable management process to manage the project change request process.
5. 84 months experience with project quality planning, quality assurance, end-to-end system testing, quality control, user acceptance testing (UAT) defect and metrics management, and quality governance.
6. 48 months experience managing COTS software implementation projects and/or in-house application development (SDLC) projects.
7. 24 months experience managing NYS IT projects using NYS Office of Information Technology Systems (NYS OITS) standard tools including NYS ITSM, MeasureIT cost planning, PMBOK and NYS project management templates.
8. Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP) AND PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®