Overview
Skills
Job Details
Primary Responsibilities will include:
Follow the project management life cycle (PMLC) including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing one or more projects.
Follow the agency's Information Technology Handbook, standard operating procedures on the PMLC, Review Gates, project management artifacts, and archiving.
Manage all aspects of a technology related project.
Ensure project tasks and products follow the development process and quality guidelines while meeting both functional and contractual requirements.
Apply the software/systems development life cycle (SDLC) including Requirements, Design, Code/Configure, Test (System, User Acceptance, Regression, Round Trip, Smoke), Change Management/Deployment, Warranty period, and Transition to Maintenance.
Work with peers from user area and contractor staff to coordinate, plan, assign, supervise, and evaluate the work of the project staff in a matrixed organization structure.
Manage deliverable content expectations, review processes, and acceptance criteria.
Ensure deliverables meet the agreed upon quality and content.
Develop and manage project budgets, schedules, work plans, resource
requirements, and cost estimates and projections.
Ensure all team members understand the project standards and resolve challenges with the quality of any party's work products.
Communicate with the project stakeholders, management, and other relevant parties.
Monitor and evaluate third-party vendor and contractor performance.
Document detailed system requirements.
Work independently with minimal supervision and meet tight deadlines.
WORKER SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Worker should be qualified to serve as a "Project Manager", Level 3 under the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) IT Staff Augmentation Contract guidelines.
Minimum Requirements:
| Years | Skills/Experience |
| 8 | Full-time experience in IT Project Management work, business analysis, or project administration. Experience managing complex projects throughout all development phases |
| 8 | Experience in structured design and development process, scope control, project estimation, risk mitigation, and preventive and corrective actions for overruns |
| 8 | Experience managing project activities; establishing project goals and objectives; exercising sound judgment in making critical decisions; analyzing complex information and developing plans to address identified issues; demonstrate negotiation and facilitation skills; identify project risks and gaps; prepare reports; and communicate effectively |
| 8 | Experience reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating business systems and user and stakeholder needs |
| 8 | Experience facilitating and documenting business process mapping and business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to business problems that make a business more effective |
| 5 | Experience documenting detailed requirements for information technology solutions that will meet program and user needs |
| 3 | Experience simultaneously collecting requirements across multiple program areas or organizations that are geographically dispersed and that have varying business needs |
Preferred:
| Years | Skills/Experience |
| 5 | Knowledge of IT Project Management theories and practices applicable to projects that are complex in scope; of systems and procedures used to evaluate a third-party vendor's performance; and of local, state, and federal laws and regulations relevant to the administration of the project undertaken |
| 5 | Experience presenting to program and IT management, project Sponsors, and Executive leadership |
| N/A | Project Management Professional (PMP) certification |
| 4 | Experience working on an unemployment insurance system with appeals, benefits, and/or employer tax functionality |
| 2 | Experience implementing fraud detection or prevention features, protocols, or safeguards |