Job Title: IT Project Manager (PMAS)

Location: Austin, TX (Onsite)

Job Type: W2 - Contract

Job Description

The Program Manager position will involve management of all aspects of the project and will report to the IT Data Analytics Support Director.

Responsibilites

• Ensuring constant communication with the Office of Data Analytics & Reporting to function as a blended, partnered team with IT
• Working seamlessly and smoothly with various IT and business stakeholder areas to ensure that project deliverables are compliant with state, federal, and other applicable agency standards.
• Conducting procurement exercises as necessary to acquire vendor services for assessment or to outsource the effort to a long-term vendor
• Establishing timeline and resource requirements for successful execution of the project.
• Coordination with key stakeholders and sponsors to obtain approval of resources and timeline.
• Creation of project management deliverables necessary for this project.
• Management of the day-to-day operations and scrums of various projects, and oversight and coordination team established for this initiative.
• Risk identification and coordination of resolution with project leadership.
  
  

Required Skills

• IT project management experience.
• Work experience in the information technology industry with at least 5 years of experience involvement in data management solutions (i.e., data warehouses, data lakes, etc.), data analytics/business intelligence, web-based (J2EE) development.
• Team management through team meetings, task assignment, mentoring, facilitation and training.
• Progress monitoring to plan through effective use of risk management practices
• Complete experience with the project management lifecycle (PMLC) and software development lifecycle (SDLC) required.
• Tracking full project budget and entering actual costs in project tracking tool
• Leading project sprints using Agile methodologies, including planning increments, backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily scrums and retrospective, and Kanban
• Prior experience in the Healthcare Industry, specifically public health.
• Work experience managing multi-agency or multi-IT department initiatives.
• Effectively manage resources in a mixed functional and matrixed project environment
• The ability to develop, document and execute project management plans, work plans and quality plans
• Experience in building and managing IT project teams with emphasis on ability to motivate individuals to excel and exceed expectations.
• Experience with access & eligibility programs