Senior IT Project Manager
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ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
REHABILITATION & REENTRY
Our mission is to enhance public safety across Arizona through modern effective correctional practices and meaningful engagements.
The Arizona Department of Corrections Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) is committed to creating a safe secure and humane correctional system. With public safety top of mind ADCRR and its more than 8000 officers and professional staff are driven by a heart for public service and a commitment to deliver perfect effort each day. ADCRR is redefining itself as an agency whose daily work centers on transparency accountability and fairness.
SENIOR IT PROJECT MANAGER
(PROJECT MANAGER SENIOR - IT)
Salary: $104220.00
Grade: 28
Closing Date: 06/05/2025
Are you a master technical Information Technology (IT) project management leader with a wide array of technical IT experience Do you have senior level experience in Agile Azure DevOps SaaS COTS and Data Warehouse This is your next career move. Lets get you started today!
The Arizona Department of Corrections Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR) is hiring a Senior IT Project Manager with 7 years of experience managing high-level IT projects. The successful candidate will possess demonstrated working technical knowledge experience and success leading full-scope medium to large software development and implementation projects and management of Agile/SCRUM teams. This candidate will be self-driven and thrive in a fast-paced dynamic challenging environment that operates on collaboration and partnership with all business stakeholders.
- Directs leads and manages multiple complex medium to large IT software development lifecycle implementation agency-wide and enterprise-level projects and/or initiatives from initiation to implementation/deployment based on repeatable project management standards processes procedures and practices
- Develops and maintains detailed project artifacts
- Identifies manages and mitigates risks and/or issues
- Communicates project status progress and completes senior-level reporting
- Spearheads change management processes and implements solutions-based improvements
- Manages vendor contract negotiations selection and timelines
- Monitors completed vendor contracts for performance deviation or breach
- Interfaces with the Procurement Services Bureau to effectively resolve vendor or contract-related issues
- Oversees the state Project Investment Justification (PIJ) and Information Technology Authorization Committee (ITAC) processes for all applicable projects including but not limited to Project Investment Justification (PIJ) timely reporting communication with the Arizona Strategic Enterprise Technology Office (ADOA-ASET) Engagement Manager and Operations Analyst (OA) specific to projects PIJ origination ITAC monthly reporting ITAC presentations and application of state policies processes and procedures for the completion of System Security Plans (SSP)
- Manages all aspects of project finance and reporting including but not limited to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) variances contingencies project budgets cost overruns project invoicing Return on Investment (ROI)s and project profitability
- Manages the Memorandum of Acceptance (MOA) process and fiscal year project estimations budgeting and Amazon Web Service (AWS)/Azure allocations
- Mentors and develops other team members through feedback coaching and direction
- Drives on state business
- Performs other duties appropriate to the assignment
Knowledge of:
- All theoretical practical and technical aspects of project management
- The application of Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
- Proven working and the application of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Azure Dev/Ops
- Microsoft and Google applications
- Scrum and Agile methodologies and practices
- Budgets estimations ROIs and financial reporting
- Project management software
Skill in:
- Exceptional written and oral communication
- Building and maintaining interpersonal relationships
- Process improvements and value-based solutions
- Leading dispute resolutions and effective problem-solving
- Project management methodologies and practices
- Vendor management and contracts
- The procurement processes and procedures
Ability to:
- Lead manage and organize cross-functional and collaborative agency-wide teams
- Cultivate and maintain strong relationships internally and externally
- Deliver solutions that are cost-effective operationally sound and generate profit or benefit to the Agency
- Effectively create developmental design solutions
- Originate organize and maintain highly technical documentation
- Articulate complex technical project plans and solutions to a variety of audiences
- Have a deep and broad working understanding of the software development life cycle
- Apply Scrum practices and methodologies to project management development and implementation
- Develop and implement program and project-level processes procedures and performance metrics
- Learn ADCRRs policies and procedures
- Bachelors degree plus at least seven (7) years of technical project management in leading multiple complex medium to large IT software development lifecycle implementation agency-wide and enterprise level projects and/or initiatives from initiation to implementation/deployment
- Certification in Project Manager Institute (PMI) Project Manager Professional (PMP) and Scrum
- Experience with Agile/Waterfall/hybrid Azure DevOps Software as a Service (SaaS) Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Data Warehouse
Employment is contingent on the selected applicant passing a background investigation.
If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job then the following requirements apply. Any employee operating a motor vehicle on State business must possess and retain a current valid class-appropriate drivers license complete all required training and successfully pass all necessary drivers license record checks. The license must be current unexpired and neither revoked nor suspended. Employees who drive on state business are subject to drivers license record checks must maintain acceptable driving records and must complete all required driver training. An employee who operates a personally owned vehicle on state business shall maintain the statutorily required liability insurance (see Arizona Administrative Code (A.A.C.) R.11).
In an effort to maintain a safe environment all employees are required to take a Tuberculosis (TB) test during their New Employee Orientation and every year thereafter.
All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).
We offer an excellent and affordable comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees:
- Vacation and sick days with 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid Parental Leave-Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child (pilot program).
- Robust and affordable insurance plan to include medical dental life short-term and long-term disability options
- Exceptional retirement program
- Optional employee benefits such as deferred compensation plans credit union membership and a wellness program
- An incentivized commuter club and public transportation subsidy program
Learn more about the Paid Parental Leave pilot programhere. For a complete list of benefits provided by The State of Arizona please visit our benefits page
Positions in this classification participate in the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS). Enrollment eligibility will become effective after 27 weeks of employment.
Current ADCRR Employees: Consult with your respective Human Resources Liaison if you are in a different retirement plan than the one indicated above.
The State of Arizona is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer. Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation such as a sign language interpreter or an alternative format by calling . Requests should be made as early as possible to allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
