We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager (PM3) to support the State of Michigan Project Management Office and Michigan Department of Treasury on a high-priority, multi-year IT project.
The ideal candidate will have extensive IT project management experience, strong leadership and communication skills, and a proven track record of delivering complex projects on time and within budget in a multi-vendor government environment.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, resource plans, and project documentation using Clarity.
Monitor and control project scope, schedule, cost, resources, quality, and risks.
Prepare and present project status reports to executives, stakeholders, and project teams.
Manage stakeholder communications and coordinate with technical and business teams.
Develop and maintain SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) deliverables, including project charters, schedules, budgets, communication plans, status reports, risk and issue logs, and project closure documents.
Coordinate project interfaces and communications across multiple agencies.
Ensure compliance with State of Michigan SUITE PMM and System Engineering Methodology (SEM).
Manage change requests, corrective action plans, risks, and issues.
Review vendor contracts, monitor vendor deliverables, and ensure compliance with approval procedures.
Facilitate collaboration between business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and agency leadership.
Manage technical teams responsible for system architecture and integration across SaaS solutions.
Required Qualifications
7+ years of IT project management experience.
7+ years of successfully delivering projects on time and within budget.
7+ years of experience managing project budgets, schedules, change requests, risks, and issues.
7+ years of experience developing and presenting project status reports.
5+ years of experience using project portfolio management tools such as Clarity.
5+ years of advanced working knowledge of MS Project.
5+ years of experience managing stakeholders and system owners across departments.
5+ years of experience overseeing technical teams involving system architecture and SaaS integrations.
5+ years of experience managing IT projects involving Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) technology.
5+ years of experience managing multi-vendor projects in a government environment.
5+ years of experience developing and maintaining detailed project integration schedules.
5+ years of prior developer or senior technical project management experience.
5+ years of experience with Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM).
Highly Desired Qualifications
Scrum Master Certification.
PMP Certification.
ADA Compliance experience.
File Transfer Service experience.
