Expert Project Manager

Role Summary:

• Manage high-priority large-scale IT projects for New York State.
• Apply expert-level project management practices to ensure successful delivery compliance and stakeholder alignment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop detailed project scope statements and document complex business and technical requirements.
• Elicit business goals information needs priorities and constraints from stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Analyze alternatives and recommend optimal solutions.
• Create and manage project schedules milestones and deliverables using project scheduling tools.
• Identify and document resource needs and coordinate activities across agency program areas.
• Manage project budgets using cost estimating and control tools.
• Design and implement quality metrics to measure project performance.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project communication plans.
• Prepare detailed project reports and present status updates to stakeholders sponsors and executive leadership.
• Complete and submit weekly status reports in the ITS Project Repository (ITSM).
• Direct coordinate and oversee project staff vendors and cross-functional teams.
• Identify monitor and mitigate project risks and issues.
• Manage vendor and contract relationships.
• Recommend evaluate and manage changes to project scope schedule and resources.
• Support PMO initiatives including portfolio and performance analysis.
• Actively participate in PMO meetings and required training.
• Complete all mandated ITS and NYS training.
• Ensure transition and knowledge transfer of all project artifacts to state staff.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• Expert-level Project Manager with 84 months of experience leading large cross-functional IT projects of significant scope and impact.
• 84 months managing 3 5 concurrent application development projects (COTS and in-house) ensuring vendor delivery of upgrades configurations custom development testing and incident triage in compliance with SSDLC.
• 84 months managing the full project lifecycle including budgets MS Project schedules scope communication plans quality standards and project closeout.
• 84 months developing and managing project schedules using Waterfall Agile and Hybrid methodologies including baseline tracking variance analysis and executive-level reporting.
• 84 months developing writing and managing detailed scope documents project plans schedules budgets deliverable acceptance and change control processes.
• 84 months experience in project quality planning quality assurance system testing UAT defect management metrics tracking and governance.
• 84 months leading multi-phased high-visibility IT projects for State agencies with executive reporting and strict compliance requirements.
• Active PMP Certification required.

Environment and Additional Requirements:

• Software Environment: Microsoft.
• Hardware Platform: Unisys.
• Mandatory ITS security agreements required.
• Fingerprint-based background check required.
• NYS SLMS annual training required.
• Knowledge transfer and transition of project artifacts required.
• Travel not anticipated