Project Manager

Sr. Project Manager

55 Farmington Ave, Hartford, CT 06106, Local candidates preferred - Hybrid Project

Project Till- 04/30/2025

RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Manager will be responsible for the oversight of the technical solution inclusive of technical/project documentation and State and Federal compliance and will work collaboratively with the Business/BITS. The duties and expectations of the Project Manager are as follows:

• Provide oversight, guidance, and direction to Project Staff for appropriate planning, development/implementation of the System.
• Project decision-making as needed and escalate issues to the project leadership.
• Responsibility for ensuring proper development and maintenance of integrated project schedules, and risk & issue logs.
• Ensure proper internal project communications and reporting.
• Manages information systems activities within areas such as IT infrastructure and architecture, applications development, networks, computer operations and support.
• Provide a complete and thorough review of project deliverables and ensure review and approval milestones are met.
• Facilitate and own appropriate stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Support the collection, management, and dissemination of high-quality status reports.
• Work closely with technical staff on the project and provide leadership in ensuring the appropriate documentation of requirements and the necessary IT resource planning and allocation.
• Assistance with organization, prioritization and supervision of team activities, project standards, and technical decisions
• Oversight of vendors, project scopes, deliverables, timelines, and schedule
• Oversight and assistance in developing a more comprehensive and attainable roadmap for the duration of the project.
• Continual assessment and remediation of identified risks, gaps, dependencies, and impediments.
• Coordination and alignment of project needs with Business strategies/processes.
• Oversight of State and Federal technical regulations and compliance functions related to the project.
• Assistance in facilitating project status meetings, participation in the project's governance processes and collaboration on stakeholder/customer communication.
• Assistance in identifying and prioritizing data exchanges/interfaces
• Collaboration with the Business/Program staff for the development of training and to assess customer satisfaction/feedback.

The following outlines the preferred qualifications for this position:

• Solid understanding of best practices related to modular system integration, system development life cycle requirements/models, and experience with software development and scrum/agile methodologies with enterprise-level application development projects.
• Profound project delivery and management experience.
• Knowledge and experience in Department of Social Services, Department of Labor, Department of Housing, Office of Early Childhood welfare assistance programs.
• Knowledge and experience in information systems activities within areas such as IT infrastructure and architecture, applications development, networks, computer operations and support.
• 10 years related experience in project management, planning, and tracking of projects, including overseeing IT projects and schedules/roadmaps from conception to completion.
• Experience with interoperability and data exchanges/interfaces
• Experience working with business stakeholders in related industries.
• Experience with and understanding of full project or product lifecycle.
• Proficiency with project management tools and related technology
• Ability to lead, drive results, solve problems, and possess interpersonal skills from prior work situations.
• Experience leading teams responsible for requirements gathering, business analysis, program development, testing and version control.
• Proven communication skills, well-organized, and influential leadership skills, with demonstrated experience working in a team-oriented environment and proficiency with collaboration, including having excellent interpersonal and documentation skills.
• Proven team-building skills with technical and non-technical staff, as well as coaching and mentoring.
• Business acumen and political savvy
• Change Management experience and expertise.
• Project budgeting, resource planning, allocation and capacity planning skills and experience
• Experience with technology requirements for human service systems (e.g., business processing modeling, architecture, SDLC, interoperability, system integration, data management, security, etc.)
• Experience with iterative and incremental development and the ability to adjust to changing requirements, policy changes and legislative mandates.
• Experience managing project timelines, deliverables, project scopes, risks, and leading project status meetings.
• Experience in best practice related to government procurement of technology vendors.
• Knowledge of Salesforce preferred.
• Proficiencies in MS Project, SharePoint, Azure DevOps, and other project tools/software