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This is an exempt position. Salary commensurate with experience.
Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Albany, NY – Hybrid
Duration: 30 Months
W2 Hourly Rate: $80 – $100/hour
Application Deadline: September 22, 2026
Schedule: Full Time
Number of Positions: 1
Overview
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex technical initiatives within a large Integrated Eligibility System environment. This role will provide project leadership across scope, schedule, budget, risks, resources, vendor implementations, and data-related activities while coordinating with technical teams, business stakeholders, and program governance groups.
Duties
- Provide leadership and oversight to project managers and support overall program objectives from a project management perspective.
- Define and manage project scope, schedules, budgets, milestones, and deliverables.
- Monitor schedule and budget variances and develop mitigation strategies for project risks.
- Proactively identify, assess, track, and mitigate project risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions.
- Manage project activities in accordance with established change control processes.
- Lead project teams throughout the systems development lifecycle, including requirements, technical design, development, testing, deployment, training, and pilot implementation.
- Manage project communication plans, actions, decisions, risks, issues, and interdependencies.
- Manage resources within a matrixed organization and coordinate resource allocation based on project priorities.
- Lead project groups and coordinate activities across stakeholder organizations.
- Facilitate meetings to clarify business requirements, technical requirements, priorities, and project decisions.
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to ensure project objectives, responsibilities, and expectations are clearly defined.
- Oversee and coordinate system integration vendor implementations, including scope, methodology, resource management, deliverables, approvals, and progress reporting.
- Support data conversion, data modeling, legacy system transition, ETL coordination, and data quality validation activities.
- Prepare and deliver regular project status reports to program leadership, sponsors, steering committees, and governance groups.
- Perform other related project management duties as assigned.
Mandatory Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience working on complex projects, including 2+ years of experience in a leadership role as a Project Manager.
- 12+ years of experience as a PMO Project Manager.
- 12+ years of experience working within or supporting a Project Management Office.
- Experience managing projects supporting a Health and Human Services eligibility system involving at least one of the following domains: Medicaid, Public Assistance, SNAP, HEAP, Child Care, or Fair Hearings.
- Experience with data conversion and data modeling.
- Experience working with legacy systems and ETL teams.
- Experience validating data quality during system implementation, conversion, or modernization initiatives.
- Experience defining and managing project scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Experience managing projects throughout the systems development lifecycle.
- Experience managing resources within a matrixed organization.
- Experience overseeing systems integration vendors, deliverables, and implementation activities.
- Experience preparing and presenting project status reports to senior leadership and governance groups.
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
- Associate’s degree or combination of experience and education.
Desirable Qualifications
- 6+ months of experience managing a program budget of at least $100 million.
- 7+ years of experience actively managing resource-loaded project schedules and resource assignments using Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Online, including VBA scripting.
- 7+ years of experience working with data governance, privacy, and compliance standards.
- 5+ years of experience working in Agile development environments and managing technical projects.
Cloud and Things complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
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- Analyzing resumes against job requirements
- Supporting our recruiters in candidate data evaluation
- Ensuring consistent review standards across all applications
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