Sr. Project Manager (Remote)

GovCIO Sr. Project Manager (Remote) Helena, Montana

GovCIO is looking for a Sr. Project Manager to join our Health PMO team. The candidate should have experience with a civil agency, preferably the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The environment is dynamic, and client needs are often evolving. As such, thought leadership, problem-solving, rapid learning, and carrying the innovative mindset needed to lead our clients through conceptualization, strategic planning, and execution is important.

Additionally, flexibility and forward-thinking views are important for success. This position will be a fully remote US position with core hours Monday through Friday 8am-5pm eastern time.

Responsibilities

• Creates integrated project plans for products in development projects.
• Manages work performed by a project team comprised of multidisciplinary third-party contractors.
• Reviews, manages, and controls status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with team members and line managers.
• Reports to the Product Line Sr. Program Manager.
• Manage Agile delivery model, whether Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Lean Kanban, DevSecOps, or other iterative development approaches.
• Support program management, governance, oversight, and executive level reporting.
• Manage competing priorities, address data calls, and provide ongoing progress reports.
• Document and provide recommendations for technical management approaches on projects / products.
• Manage parallel projects under a complex program while also providing cross functional program level support.
• Create strategic roadmaps, with alignment to goals and operations plans.
• Document, track, and monitor project, program, system, product, and various performance metrics and report progress with recommendations or innovative approaches for improvement, organizational maturity, and / or optimization.
• Serve as an escalation point for customer concerns if / when they arise and identify appropriate resolutions to achieve client satisfaction in a timely manner.
• Provide leadership and direction to any assigned direct reports, clients, key stakeholders, and executive leadership.
• Provide strategic advice on product line performance through automation, continuous integration pipelines, and other means.
• Understand existing processes and identify how to improve and streamline them to improve team efficiency and effectiveness.
• Provide advice for product teams as it relates to automation, CI / CD, and DevOps and / or DevSecOps.
• Manage and coordinate requirements implementation and delivery across various projects.
• Collect, analyze, manage, and report key Product Line execution status and metrics across all aspects of the Agile product development lifecycle.
• Support communications, program baseline support, strategic planning and analysis, data collection, quality reviews, risk management, scheduling, and overall management of assigned projects.
• Monitor, track, and provide client reports on project schedule, work plan, risks, action items, key decisions, meeting minutes, and budget to ensure the project meets targeted dates and goals.
• Support fast turnaround requests for data calls.
• Understand the client’s business issues and data challenges; perform gap analysis and recommend solutions.
• Conduct research, analyze information needs, and perform analysis to support the delivery of relevant artifacts including business process diagrams, reports, and presentations.
• Translate complicated issues from multiple information sources into a clear point of view, and create a compelling, concise, and well-written narrative.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience :

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, systems, business or related scientific / technical discipline plus 15 years of commensurate work experience, 10 years of additional relevant work experience may be substituted for educational requirements.
• Experience managing middleware projects with down / up-stream dependencies.
• Advanced MS-Project and MS-Excel experience.
• Agile Jira project setup, configuration and management experience.
• Experience within progression from an SDLC project individual contributor to an SDLC project manager.
• Strong understanding of Agile requirements with traceability in epic / feature / story / acceptance criteria definition through releases.
• Strong experience with projects which require well organized management, tracking and communications of complex product development dependencies.
• Experience in managing mid-sized or large-scale software development projects.
• Experience in the software development lifecycle.
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio).
• Proficient with MS SharePoint and MS Teams.
• Experience using Jira in an Agile or SAFe environment.
• Understanding of DevSecOps principles and best practices.
• Strong facilitation and excellent verbal communication, oral presentation, analytical and written communication skills.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Experience providing cross-functional program level support.
• Experience creating and presenting executive summary presentations.
• Experience in risk management and mitigation strategies.

Preferred Skills and Experience :

• Agile / SAFe certification(s).
• PMP Certification.
• SDLC technical role experience.
• Configuration Management in advanced technologies experience.
• Experience in Department of Veterans Affairs project management.
• Experience in Healthcare IT project management.
• Understanding of Lean Six Sigma and LEAN principles and processes.
• Experience with platform operations support, practices, strategies, and management.
• Understanding VA technologies such as VistA, VPR, REST API SOAP.
• Familiarity with InterSystems products such as (Cache, IRIS, FHIR ODS, HS, HC, etc.).
• Understanding of Release Management and Configuration Management.
• Familiarity with the Electronic Health Record (EHR).
• Experience with VistA or MUMPS applications is desired.

Clearance Required : Ability to obtain / maintain suitability / Public Trust clearance.

Company Overview

GovCIO is a team of transformers people who are passionate about transforming government IT. Every day, we make a positive impact by delivering innovative IT services and solutions that improve how government agencies operate and serve our citizens.

But we can't do it alone. We need great people to help us do great things - for our customers, our culture, and our ability to attract other great people.

We are changing the face of government IT and building a workforce that fuels this mission. Are you ready to be a transformer?

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

EOE, including disability / vets.

Posted Salary Range : USD $130,000.00 - USD $140,000.00 / Yr.

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Remote working / work at home options are available for this role.