Project Manager

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Company: Allied Consultants

Location: Austin, TX 78745

Description:

Overview

Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 33 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas. We are currently seeking an experienced Project Manager to be a key resource on a technical services team.

Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.

Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law. Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background check

Allied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.

Responsibilities

Candidates will work with client to perform complex to advanced project management and oversite, facilitate business analysis work including; documenting business processes, recommending improvement strategies, and developing functional and technical requirements documentation.

Primary Responsibilities:
  • Manage aspects of a technology related project.
  • Ensure project tasks and products follow the development process and quality guidelines while meeting functional, technical, security and contractual requirements.
  • Work with client's staff 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 team members understand the project standards and be able 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.

**Location of job: Onsite**

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years

Required/Preferred

Experience

8

Required

Full-time experience in project management. Experience managing large, complex projects throughout all development phases.

8

Required

Experience in structured design and development process, scope control, project estimation, risk mitigation, and preventive and corrective actions for overruns.

8

Required

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 facilitate

8

Required

Experience reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating business systems and user and stakeholder needs.

8

Required

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.

8

Required

Experience documenting detailed requirements for information technology solutions that will meet program and user needs.

8

Required

Experience working directly with Texas state agency as an employee or contractor in a PM role

5

Required

Experience writing solicitation documents, including but not limited to Request for Information, Request for Offer (RFO) and Statement of Work (SOW) documents.

5

Required

Experience simultaneously collecting requirements across multiple program areas or organizations that are geographically dispersed and that have varying business needs.

5

Required

Experience working with DIR and the Data Center Services (DCS) including the implementation of cloud-based solutions

5

Required

Experience with Texas Project Delivery Framework method.

1

Preferred

Experience with Salesforce

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