Project Manager Technical

Position Description:

The Technical Project Manager performs daytoday management of activities pertaining to the nonfunctional technical deliverables of the project. This individual is responsible for performing the following Position Description:

• Identifying issues and risks and recommending possible issue and risk mitigation strategies.
• Facilitating State agency and Contractor discussions / meetings.
• Ensuring that performance is within scope consistent with requirements and delivered on time and within budget;
• Identifying critical paths tasks dates testing and acceptance criteria;
• Forming the strategy and roadmap for operating systems platform and architecture;
• Influencing the business and development teams on future architecture;
• Works with other IT and business teams for technology impacts across the enterprise and formulates strategy;
• Providing solutions to improve efficiency (e.g. reducing costs while maintaining or improving performance levels);
• Mentoring architects developers and analysts of all levels in industry best practices procedures and concepts;
• Monitoring issues and providing resolutions for uptodate status reports; and
• Demonstrating excellent writing and oral communications skills.

Education/Certification:

• This position requires a Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering Computer Science Information Systems Business or a related discipline.
• Candidates must possess a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from PMI. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification is required.

General Experience:

The proposed candidate must have at least five (5) years of experience in project management.

Specialized Experience:

• The proposed candidate must have at least five (5) years of experience in managing IT related projects.
• This individual must have experience in a leadership role for at least three (3) successful projects that were delivered on time and within budget including a project similar in size to the State of Maryland enterprisewide implementation.
• This individual must have at least five (5) years of experience in designing Enterprise Architecture (i.e. Infrastructure Technology and Application) for integrated applications for an organization of equal or greater size.
• The candidate must have at least three (3) years of experience in managing projects with an organizational change management component that involve working with stakeholder groups across the organization.
• In addition he/she must possess at least five (5) years of experience using PMIs PMBoK methodologies and artifacts.