Senior Project Manager - Augusta, United States - Novalink Solutions LLC

Description

Top 3 Skills:

Strong Project Management experience

Advanced Communication

Data ETL processes

The Project Management Office supports a broad portfolio of Maine's strategic initiatives, supporting all sixteen Agencies under the Executive Branch. As a member of the Project Management Team, you will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic group of internal/external Business and IT Partners and be accountable for leading project teams to achieve their deliverable goals on time with a high level of quality.

The Project Manager is responsible for the successful execution of a project from impact assessment through to implementation. This position is responsible for applying appropriate knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to manage medium to large projects. Project activities include, but are not limited to, establishing clear and achievable objectives, planning, and directing people to reach objectives while balancing competing demands for quality, scope, time, and cost, and adapting to different concerns and expectations of stakeholders. A professional project manager should be able to manage a project without extensive knowledge of the subject matter. This position is responsible for mentoring others and contributing to continual improvement of project management knowledge and skill in the organization.

We are currently recruiting for a Project Manager to work with the Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services to support the State's Workday implementation. This position will be responsible for ensuring all data migration efforts are planned, tracked and successfully completed. This position will be expected to work with MaineIT's Enterprise Data Services team and Prism Project Management.

Project Management

Utilizes strong project management skills.

Identifies project stakeholders and manages communication with the project stakeholders.

Follows project standards for issue management, risk management, and timely delivery of initiative results.

Direct resources on assigned project tasks and ensure clarity of project roles and responsibilities.

Provides regular updates on assigned data efforts to the Prism Project Manager

Manages data quality through activities such as conducting appropriate reviews, obtaining approvals, taking corrective action when necessary.

Ensures that project documentation is complete and current.

Data Migration Project Management

Understand and guide the entire implementation. Manage the overall plan for the data track of work.

Work closely with and align to the project schedule set forth by SOM

Ensure alignments and progress against tenant and data migration milestones set by the PRISM Project

Works with agency partners and data owners to ensure data validations occur on schedule and data cleansing is maintained

Provides day-to-day management of Project Data expectations.

Identifies and monitors the mitigation of risks to the scope, schedule, and budget for the data track of work.

Data Warehouse Project Management
Through thorough understanding of business data reporting and analytics needs, guide the implementation of Prism data to the SOM Data Warehouse and OACS. Manage the overall plan for the data warehouse track of work.
Work closely with and align to the project schedule set forth by SOM
Ensure alignments and progress against data warehouse development and load migration milestones set by the PRISM Project
Works with the SOM Enterprise Data Services team and the Prism Reporting workstream resources to ensure data mapping and loads occur on schedule
Provides day-to-day management of Project Data Warehouse expectations
Identifies and monitors the mitigation of risks to the scope, schedule, and budget for the data warehouse track of work.
Working with SOM EDS resources
Define and plan work needed to buildout warehouse structures needed to support Prism data
Plan and monitor the effort to develop criteria that supports decision-making for reports available from the Data Warehouse vs. Workday directly
Identify, confirm, and plan the development of Data Warehouse "MVP" scope
Monitor and manage the development of MVP scope

Leadership:
Proactively establishes and maintains cooperative, productive partnerships on current project/deliverables.
Promote the benefits of change and act as a catalyst for change within the organization, as well as adapts to changes imposed by others
Organizes and guides the activities of the project team. Prioritizes tasks to meet deliverables and commitments on time. Ensures that project member's time and experience is well utilized. Recommends alternatives/options to minimize any schedule delay.

Any combination of education or experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree with five years of project management experience.
Demonstrated experience managing large, complex technology initiatives involving multiple subgroups or teams.
In depth knowledge/understanding of the PMI methodology and a broad understanding/awareness of SDLC methodologies.
Strong ability to work effectively in a business and technical environment.
Effectively uses technical project management tools.
Strong initiative and ability to set stretch goals.
Strong ability to negotiate effectively with vendor, business and IT partners on business requirements and timeframes on initiatives.
Strong ability to rally support among peers and work effectively within challenging situations.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to balance the need to gather detail with the need to solve the problem
Ability to escalate issues that may affect timelines and ability to provide suggestions for logical solutions.
Strong general management skills including:
Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills
Strong facilitation and elicitation skills
Strong consultative advisory skills.
Strong ability to effectively articulate difficult ideas and concepts through clear and concise verbal and/or written communication in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
Strong ability to identify and apply different communication mediums based on a content and audience at all levels (both internal and external to Maine gov) to achieve intended goal.
Advanced PC skills required (Excel, Power Point, Word, etc.)

Preference will be given to candidates with the following:
Prior Experience managing large Data Validation, Data Warehouse, and Data Visualization projects
Experience with Organizational Change Management
PMP Certification is a plus
IT experience with State Governments a plus.

Requirements