Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dale WorkForce Solutions is recruiting for an unnamed end client seeking a Senior IT Project Manager on a contract basis. The role leads concurrent software development, application implementation, and systems integration projects from initiation through closure, managing delivery, budgets, vendors, risks, governance, and stakeholders using Waterfall methods.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex IT projects from initiation through successful implementation and closure, with a primary focus on software development, application integration, and enterprise technology initiatives
- Manage multiple concurrent projects (typically three or more), with average project durations of 6–8 months
- Apply Waterfall project management methodologies to establish structured project plans, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and governance
- Develop and maintain detailed, effort-driven, auto-scheduled project plans using Microsoft Project/Project Server
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, including application developers, business analysts, architects, infrastructure teams, vendors, and business stakeholders
- Manage project resources within a matrixed organizational structure, addressing competing priorities and resource availability
- Oversee project execution, testing, implementation, and transition activities to ensure successful delivery
- Manage project budgets of $150K or greater, including financial planning, forecasting, tracking, and variance analysis
- Reconcile planned versus actual resource hours, investigate discrepancies, and maintain accurate estimates to complete (ETC)
- Monitor project expenditures, vendor invoices, and financial forecasts to ensure alignment with approved budgets
- Proactively identify financial risks, funding requirements, and opportunities to optimize project spending
- Manage third-party vendors, including requesting, reviewing, negotiating, and executing Statements of Work (SOWs)
- Track vendor deliverables, dependencies, commitments, and performance throughout the project lifecycle
- Follow established project management processes, governance standards, and reporting requirements
- Identify, track, and proactively manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and critical decisions
- Develop and communicate regular project status reports covering milestones, financial performance, risks, and overall project health
- Facilitate project meetings with technical teams, business sponsors, executive stakeholders, and vendors
- Communicate project challenges, impacts, and recommendations clearly and confidently to leadership
- Drive timely issue resolution, escalate critical concerns appropriately, and maintain accountability for project outcomes
- Utilize Azure DevOps to support project tracking, work item visibility, and coordination with technical delivery teams
Skills
- Candidates must have experience managing application development or systems integration projects within the insurance industry
- Candidates must have MS Project experience
- 7+ years of recent, hands-on IT project management experience successfully delivering complex technology initiatives
- Proven experience managing software development, application development, and/or systems integration projects
- Demonstrated success delivering multiple IT projects from initiation through completion, typically with 6–8 month delivery timelines
- Strong experience managing projects with budgets of $150K or greater
- Extensive experience applying Waterfall project management methodologies, including structured planning, dependency management, milestone tracking, and change control
Benefits
- 100% remote (must be willing to work EST time zone business hours).
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