Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Years
Required/Preferred
Experience
8
Required
Direct project management experience.
8
Required
Experience working with state budget.
1
Required
Azure based products
3
Preferred
Experience working with financial systems development team
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Process Consistency: Direct, develop, evaluate, and establish processes used by application project teams to ensure the
teams are adhering to procedures consistently and confirm scope and schedule changes are documented, approved, and
understood by stakeholders and project team members. Oversee and develop project budgets, schedules, works plans,
resource requirements with resource managers, cost estimates, and cost projections. Document and monitor exceptions to
standard IT policies, processes, and best practices.
- Deliverable Quality: Oversees, monitors, and manages the quality of multiple highly complex applications and works to
identify continuous improvement measures/root cause and corrective actions. Verifies project deliverables are acceptable, fulfill
terms of the team agreements, and are within time and budget. May oversee the deliverables of contract work.
- Customer Satisfaction: Communicates routinely to management, customers, project team members, and other stakeholders,
actively soliciting and addressing customer and project team feedback.
- Leadership: Responsible for problem management, issue resolution, and risk identification and mitigation, while empowering
and motivating the team to have a sense of ownership over the application. Establish and manage a cross-functional team.
- Vision: Articulates a clear view (current and future) of the application to the executive management team, customers, and
project team. Evaluate enterprise-level projects on defining and meeting strategic goals and objectives for projects; coordinate
the initiation and planning of diverse projects to meet application and technology roadmap commitments. Balance and
articulate the effort of the functionality with the value for the IT applications.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred.
• Certified Texas Contract Manager (CTCM) preferred.
- Experience with Agile software development and release methodologies preferred.
- Experience with Dynamics365 Customer Service Enterprise preferred.
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $100.00 - $105.00 per hour
Schedule:
Experience:
- Texas Education Agency: 5 years (Required)
- Texas Department: 5 years (Preferred)
- TxD: 6 years (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- Certified Texas Contract Manager (Required)
Work Location: Remote