HBITS 07-14675 Project Manager - Expert

Company: Knowledge Builders
Location: Albany
Posted on: April 2, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Project/Program: Plans, organizes and integrates cross-functional information technology projects that are significant in scope and impact. Day-to-Day Tasks: The consultant will be performing Formal Project Management tasks including, but not limited to: • Work closely with the project’s business functional areas involving DOT executive and business teams, Portfolio/ITS Leadership and technical teams to develop and manage the project scope and other project management plans (PMP), approach, resource requirements and allocation, schedule, deliverables, and funding. • Provide guidance and direction to the Portfolio project teams on day-to-day project tasks. • Develop formal project plans specifying goals, strategy, dependencies, scheduling, identifying risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources. • Follow the standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation for all projects being managed within IT Portfolio. • Identify, schedule, and manage project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks. • Assign tasks and responsibilities and drive accountability to project team members. • Direct and coordinate complex business requirements deliveries, business process reengineering and organizational change activities. • Direct and coordinate activities of project resources to ensure project progresses on schedule and within budget. • Track project-related costs and expenditures. • Facilitate large project governance and executive status meetings, project team status meetings, scrums and recurring agile meetings by defining agendas and running meetings effectively. • Aggregate status updates from project team members, track schedules, and manage risks and issues as required. • Prepare executive project status reports and keep the team, management and all stakeholders informed of project status and related issues, resolving and escalating as necessary. Mandatory Qualification: Project Manager - Plans, organizes and integrates cross-functional information technology projects that are significant in scope and impact. Expert - 84 months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field. Requested Qualifications: - 84 months experience managing and leading large, complex IT projects as the Project Manager. Large, complex IT projects are defined as projects that include one or more of the following characteristics: • Budget greater than $1,000,000 • Project duration greater than 12 months • Multiple funding sources including Federal or grant funding • Management of third-party vendors • Management of external stakeholders • Oversight of multi-level project team organizations • Deployment to geographically diverse end users Required: Candidate must provide at least one example of a large, complex IT project completed or currently in progress that was led by the candidate and managed in the ITSM system. - 84 months experience developing and executing project management plans including management of: • Charter • Scope • Schedule • Cost • Quality • Communication • Change • Risk • Issue • Resource management plans Experience must include management of these plans throughout the full project lifecycle from project initiation through project closeout. Required: Candidate must provide at least one example of an IT project led by the candidate and managed using the PMBOK framework. - 84 months experience developing and managing formal project schedules using a project tracking tool such as Microsoft Project. Experience must include: • Development of formal project schedules • Tracking progress and variance against schedule baselines • Use of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid project methodologies • Use of standard project management techniques such as scrum sessions to update schedules • Presentation of schedule and status updates to ITS and client agency leadership - 84 months experience developing, writing, and managing detailed Scope Documents. Experience must include: • Reviewing project deliverables • Managing the deliverables acceptance process • Managing scope governance • Using scope and deliverable management processes to manage project change requests - 84 months experience with project quality management, including: • Project quality planning • Quality assurance processes • End-to-end system testing • Quality control • User Acceptance Testing (UAT) coordination • Defect management and metrics tracking • Overall quality governance - 48 months experience managing software implementation projects, including: • Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software implementations and/or • In-house application development projects following Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies. - 24 months experience managing IT projects using standard tools, including: • ITSM • MeasureIT cost planning • PMBOK methodology • Project management templates - • Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP) AND • PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

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