Description
IT Project Manager (CG27673)
Pleasanton, CA, 94588
6+ Month Contract
Contract Rate: $55 per hour W2
Responsibilities of the IT Technical Project Manager:
The Technical Project Manager will be accountable for managing moderately complex projects or multiple simple projects. Successful candidates will have a proven track record delivering projects through disciplined project management processes and close collaboration with colleagues.
Other duties include:
- Implement project framework in conjunction with the client's project management methodology (including status reporting and metrics)
- Develop and manage project plans which include risk analysis and mitigation plans
- Ensure project issues are tracked, managed and resolved
- Develop and implement a project communication plan
- Ensure cross-track dependencies are identified and managed
- Implement change management mechanism to effectively manage project scope
- Coordinate with other project managers to identify cross-project dependencies and leverage best practices
- Coordinate activities of vendors and subject matter experts as required
- Produce regular project status reporting for internal review and project stakeholders
- Establish and sustain strong ongoing relationships with IT Unit and business partners
Basic Qualifications and skills:
- Minimum of 5 years of industry experience that includes 4+ years managing implementations of IT infrastructure projects.
- Experience managing projects with IT. budgets up to $1 million and total project budgets up to $10 million; Project teams up to 15 people, spanning multiple locations and up to 5 interdependent work tracks
- Self-starter, independent, results-oriented
- Prior project management experience with complex deployment projects; familiar with a variety of Middleware and endpoint infrastructures
- Excellent communicator with strong customer focus who can work with business sponsors and technologists to articulate business requirements and technology options
- Experience with all phases of the project delivery life cycle including production support.
- Required to know or learn IT-Unit's project and process methodology and to execute it within the established IT organizational framework and oversight processes.
- Skilled in MS Office Productivity Tools and MS Project
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with limited supervision.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and sustain strong ongoing relationships with client project team staff.
- Must have a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline (Master's degree preferred)
-Working knowledge of platforms, Servers, storage and network infrastructure (Wintel, Unix, Mainframe and storage expertise)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience with project delivery in the client's enterprise is strongly preferred
- PMI certification or equivalent
- Experience across multiple healthcare disciplines with an emphasis on care delivery applications
Top 3 - 5 Daily responsibilities
Develop and manage project plans which include risk analysis and mitigation plans
Ensure project issues are tracked, managed and resolved
Ensure cross-track dependencies are identified and managed
Implement change management mechanism to effectively manage project scope
Coordinate activities of service providers, vendors and subject matter experts as required
Desired skills
Healthcare industry experience
PMP Certification
Soft Skills
Excellent problem-solving and decision making skills.
Strong oral and written communication skills
# of people supervised: 4
Size of the team: 8
Stage of the project
Definition
Educational Requirement:
This position requires a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Management Information Systems
Will this Req convert to a FTE position? If so, do you only want to see individuals eligible to convert to FTE status? No restrictions
Do you require a face to face interview, or will you hire from a phone interview?
Final interview face-to-face
Can the contractor work remotely or do they need to be onsite? Onsite
Does this position require a health screen? No