deputy it program manager - Phoenix, United States - Abacus

Description

ssignment View Sector State of AZ Contractor's Work Location ZDO Position Title DEPUTY IT PROGRAM MANAGER Labor Category Information Technology-1 Job Category Project Management Number of Positions 1 Job Level 1 Submittal allowed per staffing agency 2 Priority ssignment Type Temporary Work Location Address 100 N 15th Ave., Suite 302, Phoenix, AZ, 85007 ssignment Details Target Start Date 03/11/2024 Target End Date 06/28/2024 Shift 1st Shift Work Schedule Standard Tentative Shift Start Time 8:00 AM Tentative Shift End Time 5:00 PM Rate Unit Hour Estimated Regular Hours/Week 40.00 OT Expected No OT Rate Straight Time (Exempt) Travel Required No Estimated OT Hours/Week Travel % Travel Description(Domestic/International) Security Clearance None Is U.S.

Citizenship Required? Yes Position Details Drug Screen No Background Checks Yes Position Description The Department of Administration (ADOA)

• Arizona Strategic Enterprise Technology (ASET) Office develops and executes the statewide IT strategy for Arizona state government and provides IT infrastructure and services to state agencies to ensure continuity of mission critical and essential systems.

ASET is managed by Arizona's State CIO and serves as an information technology leader for State of Arizona government.

Our team is looking for an experienced Deputy IT Program Manager who is passionate about helping people, broadly skilled, and committed to successful product execution and superior customer service to work closely with the Program Manager to help lead our multi-agency Business One Stop initiative.

The Business One Stop initiative provides a single online location to help citizens & businesses plan, start, grow, move, & close businesses in Arizona.

More information on Business One Stop is available at:


JOB DUTIES:

Works closely with the core product and implementation teams from multiple agencies to oversee and assist with the daily IT needs of the program.

Serves as a leader and advisor to the product teams to drive results and successes.

Understands and able to manage the entire product life cycle for new and existing modules from discovery through lessons learned.

Oversees and manages the product backlog in Jira and prioritizes work based on the overall strategy and business objectives of the program.

Communicates frequently with stakeholders across the board, including multiple agency executives, customers, business managers, and development teams to ensure proper product alignment.

Analyzes data, creates reports, and helps develop strategies to improve program performance. Works with project resources, including contractors, procurement, and vendors, to assure project health.

Ensures all teams are working together and acts as a mediator when needed to help facilitate activities across agencies and move the program and product forward.

Understands, monitors, and reports on all project tasks, milestones and deliverables. Guides project teams to define requirements, user stories, sprint plans, testing, backlog grooming, and product roadmap adherence.

Utilizing solid understanding of User Experience and Human-centric Design best practices, articulate requirements to help build a better product and ensure that the end-to-end experience is strong.

Align agency teams on product vision and release goals through strategic roadmapping and product backlog management.

Able to solicit and translate requirements into business, functional, and use case documents for a broad range of audiences as needed Maintains high standards of work by applying modern project management and IT methodologies, tools, and processes as a standard practice, including creating and utilizing standard work checklists as needed.

Prepares and delivers informative, well-organized presentations and written project status reviews to numerous stakeholders including process owners, product owners, executive leadership, and customers.

Other duties as assigned.

Skills Required KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Considerable working knowledge of methodologies and techniques for project and program management, business systems analysis and design, business process and UML modeling, requirements gathering, quality assurance, and software development life cycles.

Demonstrated ability to balance, prioritize, and organize multiple work streams and tasks at once. Demonstrated ability to synthesize feedback and adjust strategies accordingly. Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships inside and outside the organization. Solid understanding of User Experience and Human-centric Design best practices. Solid skills with strategic roadmapping and product backlog management. Strong ability to identify and resolve problems/risks/issues/changes. Strong planning, organization and presentation skills. Strong communication skills (verbal, written, reporting, and facilitation). Skills Preferred SELECTIVE PREFERENCE(S): Familiarity with the following knowledge areas

• Budgeting, Waterfall, Lean, Kanban, Agile, hybrid, Scrum, Scrum of Scrums, and Jira.

PMI certification a plus. Business Analysis experience a plus. Lean or Six-sigma experience or certification a plus. Experience Required None.

Experience Preferred The ideal candidate will have 5+ years in a program or product management or similar role utilizing established processes/protocols.

Education Required None. Education Preferred Bachelor's degree in a related field. dditional Information Standard background check required.