Transformation Project Manager

Job Title: Transformation Project Manager

Location: 1450 Energy Park Drive, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108 - Remote

Duration: 12+ Months Contract

At a high level, the resource will oversee the coordination of projects and technology operations readiness efforts in support of its $54MM Transformation Program to:

• Implement new commercial/configurable off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions to shift the DOC away from a custom development legacy approach.

• Implement full Data Management capabilities for data ownership, custodianship, stewardship, and governance. This establishes data as a meaningful asset for analytics and data-driven decisions, applied to all facets of the agency.

• Develop, train on and migrate to improved or new IT processes, procedures, and support to ensure the planned DOC Mission improvements and value from new products and technologies are realized.

Tasks:

• Manage Agile, Waterfall and/or Iterative projects, especially projects that employ a hybrid approach.
• Complete project planning, scheduling, scope, cost, risk identification and management, status reporting, change management, issues resolution and other project management controls
• Manage software implementation projects including custom, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and related processes to support and enhance foundation infrastructure, services, business systems and enterprise software solutions.
• Manage projects in the project and strategic portfolio management application (software).
• Manage numerous projects, with the ability to prioritize, delegate, and escalate project concerns as needed.
• Communicate with project stakeholders to facilitate group discussions to drive decision-making direction.
• Communicate both verbally and with written messages to facilitate a mutual understanding of involved parties.
• Establish rapport with others, motivate coworkers and customers and work collaboratively across business and technology functions.
• Practice customer service skills including active listening, empathy, and problem-solving.
• Manage procurement processes.
• Provide knowledge transfer when necessary to provide work/project continuity.

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge of the Project Management industry best practices for service/systems creation and development and generally accepted standards outlined in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) Guide and Agile principles.
• Knowledge of the Software/System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Knowledge of procurement processes.
• Experience with Agile, Waterfall and/or Iterative project management methodologies, especially with projects that employ a hybrid approach.
• Experience with project planning, scheduling, scope, cost, risk identification and management, status reporting, change management, issues resolution and other project management controls and practices.
• Knowledge and demonstrable experience leading/managing large data migration and interface/data exchange efforts
• Strong experience managing software implementation projects including custom, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and related processes to support and enhance foundation infrastructure, services, business systems and enterprise software solutions.
• Proficient in using a project and strategic portfolio management application (e.g. Microsoft Project, Planview, DevOps)

Interview Process:

• The State will conduct interviews. Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams.
• The State reserves the right to remove a resource from consideration if the resource is unavailable for interviews as requested by the State.