Project Manager IT Infrastructure
Contract to Hire or Permanent
Springfield, Bend or Portland, OR (Remote Now)
- *Need to be based close to one of these 3 Cities to be able to attend weekly onsite meetings**
Summary:
- Provide a proactive interface between the cross-functional core team, managers, and executive team to ensure effective definition of and delivery of the project.
- Manage entire portfolio of assigned projects, maintaining up to date metrics, and documentation that creates an effective level of transparency and accurately reflects the current state of each project.
- Serve as an integral member of the team, and play a vital role in the success of strategic IT projects.
- Interact with all departments and personnel, as needed, including external customers, vendors and consultants.
Responsibilities:
- Manage assigned projects according to life cycle (define, plan, execute, control).
- Develop and manage schedule; timelines, activities, milestones.
- Assess/analyze... resource constraints/capacity and plan accordingly.
- Ensure/oversee complete requirements gathering and documentation.
- Create weekly status reports for each project and report status to the necessary stakeholders.
- Conduct regular/weekly team meetings on all projects.
- Monitor risks and issues and maintain log files.
- Monitor and maintain scope and/or solicit sponsor approval.
- Coordinate with the business and participate in QA test iterations.
- Ensure clear and comprehensive system documentation, user guides and training materials are created.
- Solicit team member collaboration on issues and problems.
- Identify appropriate project priorities and effectively communicate to team members.
- Monitor the project status and track key performance indicators.
- Provide project progress reports to team members, IT management, sponsor, VP, and internal stakeholders.
- Post regular project updates to website and other forms as defined by departmental procedures.
- Schedule and facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Grooming, and Iteration Review/Retrospective with the team to ensure the effective achievement of desired outcomes.
- Maintain central point of contact with vendor(s).
- Create vendor selection criteria and matrix.
- Ensure contract negotiations follow project management standards and guidelines.
- Coordinate and facilitate all project-related meetings, including but not limited to testing, and end-user training.
- Track project actual expenditures to budget, and review vendor invoices before payment.
- Meet department and company performance and attendance expectations.
- Ensure compliance with standards, policies, procedures, requirements, and regulations.
- Pilot new hardware and/or software and determine capabilities and/or limitations.
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years of IT Project Management experience required.
- Experience in Health-related field preferred, with a strong preference towards Insurance.
- Minimum 3 years in a business analyst/project management role leading a team of software and/or application developers in a complex business and systems environment to produce enterprise-level software applications or technology solutions.
- Minimum 1-year working experience with iterative, waterfall, and agile software development life cycles and change management processes.
Education:
BA/BS required. Project Management Certification preferred but not required
