Client Name: City of New York
Start Date:March 10 2025
End Date:March 8 2026
Contract Length (in weeks): 52
SCOPE OF SERVICES
TASKS:
Lead the planning and delivery of complex applications ensuring adherence to project timelines budgets and quality standards.
Collaborate with crossfunctional teams including engineering product management and other stakeholders to define project scope requirements and deliverables.
Develop project plans including work breakdown structures dependencies and overall work plans for project delivery in collaboration with business technical and project stakeholders. Collaborate with Program Management to identify cross program interdependencies impacting the project.
Identify and manage risks dependencies and blockers that may impact project success and proactively develop mitigation strategies. Maintain a Risk Action Issue and Decision (RAID) log and ensure the project team and external owners for items are progressing through their action items. Manage open items to closure.
Drive effective communication and collaboration among team members stakeholders and senior leadership providing regular project updates and status reports including presentations.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement implementing best practices processes and tools to optimize project management and delivery.
Ensure compliance with industry standards regulations and security requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
Requirements
MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
Note: Candidates who do not have the mandatory skills will not be considered
- A minimum 8 years of experience in software development
- At least 8 years of experience in either a Project or Program Management role or a combination of the roles.
- At least 4 years of experience leading projects through Agile methodologies operating in a Scrum Master role when necessary to decompose highlevel project requirements into actionable Features Epics and Stories for delivery by the project team.
DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
- A bachelors degree (or equivalent) in computer science engineering product management/design or related field
- Extensive experience leading solution delivery teams in a matrixed environment with aggressive delivery goals inclusive of strong scope schedule budget vendor risk/issue and project planning and management. Proven facilitation and problem management
- Experience using Azure DevOps JIRA or other Agile tools strongly desired.
- Strong grasp or quick learner of webbased mobile and mobile responsive application software development technologies
- Experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager with strong focus and prioritization of enduser needs user experience and business delivery value.
- Ability to communicate to and create clear presentations for executives and business stakeholders.
- PMP Agile or Scrum or Product Management certification(s) (i.e. PMI ACP Scrum Alliance SCP) strongly desired.
Required Experience:
Senior IC