Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Mechanicsville, VA (Hybrid)

Yakshna Solutions, Inc., (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serve its business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality, and cost-effective IT business solutions and services.

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes the following: 401(k), health, dental, and vision insurance, Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, training, and professional development assistance.

Our Client is seeking a senior Project Manager to manage and deliver complex IT project(s) with multiple teams and work streams coordinated to an aggressive delivery schedule. This project is migrating systems to Azure.

Under the program manager, the project manager is responsible for the outcome of the assigned projects. The project manager leads the team through the Commonwealth Standard for Project Management for successful completion of the project phases: Preselect, Initiation, Planning, Execution and Control and Closeout.

Job Responsibilities

• Serve as a hands-on technical project manager with development staff and business groups.
• Coordinate and communicate with ITD management and staff to coordinate work tasks and resourcing.
• Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff.
• Collaborate with vendors, consultants, and contractors in the execution of projects including contract management and working with the procurement office(s).
• Collaborating with technology leads and solution architects to incorporate agency best practices into project plans.
• Adhere to our clients project management practices and governance requirements;
• Maintain project budget, plans, tasks, schedules, risks, and status and disseminate information to team members and customers as defined in the communications plan.
• Monitor progress by third-party vendors and define and measure their progress with metrics.
• Ensure documentation of requirements and use cases, facilitate design workshops for assigned projects.
• Ensure definition of test objectives, designed test plans and test cases for assigned projects.
• Provide the management of project milestones and deliverables for on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Define, measure, and clearly communicate progress with metrics.
• Support system and application training efforts.

Required skills and experience

• The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years experience managing large projects and a bachelor's degree.
• Experience in IT Infrastructure delivery (networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning).
• Experience managing large, multi-stream projects.
• Experience in both Agile and Waterfall project management
• Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio. PowerPoint, Project Server)

• Agile Scrum Master certification (preferred but not required)

• PMP certification from PMI required