Project Manager (Baltimore, MD)
Want to utilize your Project Management experience in a collaborative environment that values your expertise? Are you serious about your career in Project Management? Work for us and you will be among a team of Subject Matter Experts.
Join us and you will enjoy some of the following benefits:
- Free job related training/professional development
- Flexible work schedules
- Paid volunteer time in your community
- Choices of medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement 401K match, a financial confidence in your future
- Performance and recognition bonuses
- Employee engagement program
Summary:
The Project Manager (PM) will be responsible for implementing a statewide licensing system for the MD Department of Labor. The PM will work onsite, closely with key state stakeholders of local MD offices. The PM will provide strategic consulting-level support to the team while managing timelines, responsibilities, tasks, and project reporting in accordance with MD DoIT’s project management standards. The PM will also support technical teams in design/research to develop a user research pipeline, create research plans and apply research findings to prioritize and deliver high-quality IT solutions to meet business needs.
*This role is located in Baltimore, MD, some teleworking may be allowed
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain project schedules, with realistic project goals/timelines
- Document project plans, scope statements, roadmaps, and transition activities
- Measure and analyze project progress and compare metrics against project plan, providing status on project risks/issues
- Create and maintain product roadmaps, prioritize and sequence the delivery of product features based on value (expected contribution to eliminating pain points and meeting program goals)
- Manage dependencies between constituent-facing product features and support “back-of-stage” capabilities, (e.g., business rules, content, and identity management)
- Develop and sustain a user research pipeline, create research plans, and apply research findings to develop service maps
- Manage prioritized product backlog in the form of epics and user stories
- Support the Product Owner in managing customer expectations, deliverables, implementing governance processes, and documentation
- Manage and track project funding and budget compliance
- Identify, track, manage, and reduce risk/issues impact
- Develop performance and quality measures/metrics and prepare respective briefings/reports
- Lead project meetings, provide weekly scope, budget, and schedule status regarding milestones, tasks, roadblocks, and issues/risks
- Communicate with stakeholders on program status, manage expectations, demonstrate the delivery of value, and foster cross-agency collaboration
- Define and maintain project governance model(s), including roles, decision authority, and decision processes
- Develop initiatives for continuous business process monitoring and improvement
- Guide delivery teams in making business and technical trade-offs relating to system development, implementation, operations, and maintenance
- Manage project content, including policy documentation, business requirements, technical artifacts, and code repositories
- Integrate change management and change control practices, (e.g. program operations/maintenance)
- Manage vendor relationships to ensure high levels of quality deliverables and performance
Required qualifications:
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, including ability to communicate effectively with senior level stakeholders orally and in writing
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Business or related field
- Minimum of five year’s experience in Technology (IT) Project Management
- Minimum of two years’ experience designing, developing, and implementing IT processes, services, and capabilities, developing or supporting system and application inventory engagements as well as developing risk and impact assessments
- At least 2 years of experience doing service/UX design and/or business analysis (including business rules and metric specification)
- At least 1 year of software development experience, must demonstrate knowledge of database fundamentals and proficiency in SQL
- At least 2 years of experience leading Agile Scrum teams, including researchers, designers, business analysts, engineers (including DevOps engineers), and testers using Agile principles and practices
Preferred qualifications:
- Current Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Certification (PMP) preferred
Employees are the face of our company. We cultivate an environment to empower employees – promoting community involvement, workplace collaboration, and technical acumen. Hiring the right talent is critical to meet our customer needs in Enterprise Management, IT Solutions, Training & Development, and Cybersecurity.
Edwards is an equal opportunity employer. Edwards provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.
Department: Government
This is a full time position
PMP Required: No
Security Clearance:
Wage Range: 95,000-115,000