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Title: Senior IT Project Manager Location: Indianapolis, IN (Onsite) Duration: 12+ Months Type: ContractNote: - Only local candidates will be considered for this position.
OVERVIEW - Minimum five years or more project management experience.
- Capable of managing a technical, software, and/or data and reporting-centric IT projects with 10 or more staff and/or a project with multiple subprojects.
POSITION DESCRIPTION
- Designs, plans, and coordinates IT work teams.
- Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI's framework.
- Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor. Creates project kickoff, progress and close-out reports, and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics.
- Establishes project organization and methodologies and defines roles and responsibilities. Documents risks and develops mitigation plans.
- Manages scope.
- Creates and implements a communication plan as/where appropriate.
- Builds an effective team inclusive of the right IT technical and business-facing subject matter experts and user testers.
- Assigns tasks to team members, and evaluates outcomes.
- Communicates to stakeholders and project sponsor.
- Identifies, tracks, and ensures resolution of issues and removal of barriers.
- Provides technical support to project team members.
- Handles complex application features and technical designs.
- Designs and implements the components required for complex application features.
- Generally manages a group of applications systems analysts.
- Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Executive presence.
- Professional certification is highly desirable.
EXPERIENCE DESCRIPTION - Project Manager capabilities with 5 or more years of experience.
- Capable of managing a project with up to ten (10) or more staff and/or a projects with multiple subprojects
Required Skills - Experience in IT Project Management
- Prior experience working on State of Indiana large data, business intelligence, or software projects as a Senior IT PM
- Experience managing projects within Azure DevOps
- Strong knowledge of information systems development life cycle, information technology, project tools and approaches to development and implemention
- Experience with Waterfall methodology
- Experience with Agile methodology
- Ability to translate technology terms and explain concepts of SDLC to program/business folks who have little to no exposure to large software projects
- Ability to work with technical team members, and other IT professionals to flesh out project plans and risk registers and overcome obstacles
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- PMP Certified
Date Posted: 26 March 2025
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