Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. OSC Technical Solutions is seeking a Project Manager III to lead cross-organizational teams in providing project management support for IT infrastructure projects. The role involves managing project schedules, budgets, and stakeholder engagement while ensuring project delivery aligns with organizational strategy and goals.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain detailed project schedules, including resource allocations
- Regularly meet with development team members to ensure balance between demand and capacity, review actual hours worked vs planned hours to ensure deadlines and budgets are maintained
- Provide ROM estimates utilizing the approved OSC/HMIS Business Office processes with input from development team
- Ability to create a Detailed Cost Estimate to provide a more comprehensive response when requested by customer utilizing the approved OSC/HMIS Business Office processes
- Once approval and funds are received, ensure project cost are tracked throughout project life cycle against the planned schedule and budget
- Manage any cost variance and report overall project progress and execution within the project portfolio management system as required
- Demonstrate basic understanding of and ability to apply Earned Value Management System (EVMS) techniques to projects as required
- Demonstrate effective communication and presentation skills to both internal and external project stakeholders
- Manage stakeholder expectations, maintain productive relationships, and ensure client engagement during the project life cycle
- Demonstrate ability to communicate to all levels within the organization, including senior management, at the appropriate level of technical depth depending on the audience
- Document change control items per standard project management process, procedures, and best practices; track impact to schedule, scope, resources, or cost
- Demonstrate ability to influence all levels of the organization and stakeholders of the importance of proper change control during all stages of the SDLC
- Identify, assess, document, manage, mitigate, and communicate issues and risks throughout the project life cycle
- Develop and maintain contingency plans based on identified project risks
- Understand when and where to seek guidance and/or input on the quality requirements from various stakeholders
- Demonstrate ability to identify quality gaps, align with the stakeholders on quality requirements, and help ensure that the development teams are uniformly delivering the quality requirements of a given project
- Ensure your teams adhere to DevSecOps and production support policies and procedures (including contractor-specific procedures) related to standard development management, release management, change management, SQA, and production support
- Ensure that you have an in-depth understanding of all applicable procedures for each contractor project supported
- Lead and direct your team in a manner that adheres to all sitewide and contractor specific procedures for each project
- Assist with the promotion of various DevSecOps processes to influence or assist teams in adapting to industry standard development trends for DevSecOps
- Provide weekly and monthly project reporting, within required deadlines, on work performed
- Ensure that required contract deliverables are tracked to completion, delivered on time, and meet customer expectations
- Ensure that SQA documentation is created, maintained, approved, and issued per Project Contractor’s applicable procedures
- Document and create Epics, Features, and User stories within the Azure DevOps environment to track customer requirements and priorities
- Work with team resources on user story estimates and tracking within Azure DevOps
- Plan sprint cycles within Azure DevOps that align with application release schedules
- Provide project status reporting to stakeholders that ensures they have greater insight into the project, improves project tracking, and documents project progress
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree and 5 or more years of project management experience with 3 years in an IT field, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- Must pass pre-employment background check
- Must pass pre-employment drug screening
- Applicants are required to have REAL ID ACT compliant documentation at time of hire and nothing on record that would prohibit you from gaining access to Department of Energy sites
- Ability to obtain a U.S. Government Clearance
- Experience in the project management and implementation of Infrastructure projects (in such areas as Cloud Infrastructure, Networking and Data Centers, Disaster Recovery and Security, Hardware Upgrades and Maintenance, etc)
- Experience with Software/IT life cycles (SDLC). SDLC knowledge should include both Waterfall and Agile methodologies
- Minimum of 2 years working in an Agile environment
- Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps and/or other Agile methodology organization tools such as Jira, Asana, or Trello
- Experience with or understanding of how websites, web applications, databases, servers (web, application, and database), cloud-based solutions, Microsoft Windows applications, and general business process flows function in order to facilitate successful IT projects
Benefits
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- 401k with employer match
- Dental
- Vision
- Health insurance plans through the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program
- Life and disability benefits
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