Description & Requirements
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Perform project management for the full project lifecycle development and implementation of technical activities that ensure successful project completion for teams as large as 15 people
- Serve as the point of contact and client interface for project technology related issues
- Manage project expectations, evaluate project needs, and communicate with stakeholders to ensure that program needs are met with respect to urgency and priority
- Develop trust, credibility, and strong client relationships; seeks opportunities to add value to internal and external client initiatives
- Review all project deliverables to ensure quality and accuracy meet project, stakeholder, and contractual standards
- Execute all project management functions; including work breakdown and cost estimation, scheduling, monitoring and tracking of technical progress against the defined timetables and budgets, and staff assignment and development
- Lead and direct the successful delivery of application development, systems integration, infrastructure, and product installation/customization services while ensuring that assigned projects adhere to the approved life cycle work patterns, standards, and procedures for solution delivery
- Supervise and manage staff assigned to the project, assign and direct their activities
- Manage activities of subcontractors utilized to deliver the technical solution
- Define and implement development plans for assigned projects- Ensure staff is knowledgeable on the applications and technologies in use on the project and that project team understands and follows proce
sses and procedures
- Provide detailed direction during various stages of the lifecycle to include requirements analysis, testing and potentially programming support
- Identify and assess new functional capabilities supporting engineering change proposals and additional follow on work
- Identify, track, manage, and communicate risks and issues with stakeholders and upper management
- Ensure that all appropriate costs are included in quarterly forecasts
- Ensure that MAXIMUS is in compliance with all applicable requirements of the contract, state and federal regulations, and the terms and conditions of the RFP and proposal
- Coordinate, prepare and manage technical presentations and functional demonstrations to internal and external stakeholders
- Assure the project is in compliance with MAXIMUS standards and procedures
- Responsible for adhering to established safety standards
- Perform other duties as necessary and assigned
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 7+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 12+ years of direct IT related experience working on complex, enterprise-wide software solutions
- 5+ years’ experience in a leadership position
- Experience in development and implementation of IT applications to support complex business processes focused on customer/client identification, outreach and education, service delivery, and ongoing relationship management
- Strong interpersonal and team building skills, as well as an understanding of client relationship building are essential
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, ability to perform quantitative and qualitative analyses
- Experience soliciting, procuring and managing IT vendors and subcontractors
- High degree of confidence and ability to influence others through expert communication skills
- Experience managing IT budgets and resources
- Ability to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented work environment
- Experience successfully developing and deploying IT solutions using various development methodologies (e.g., waterfall, iterative, etc.)
- Experience facilitating development of enterprise architecture to support complex IT solution deliverables
- Familiarity with data security in health/insurance/financial services application areas, including security architectures, authentication and non-repudiation, cryptography, etc.
- Skilled in Microsoft Office Software including Word, Excel, Visio, MS Project, and PowerPoint
- Experience with project management tools and software, such as MS Project or JIRA
- PM Certification preferred
- Working Knowledge of IVR, Oracle 11g, Oracle Siebel, OBIEE, J2EE, Web Technologies, Web services, XML, or Deployment Management experience is a plus
- Experience with cloud based projects: AWS, Azure, etc.
- Integration Project Management experience is a plus
- Relevant industry experience to include government services, healthcare, insurance preferred
- Proficiency with state healthcare programs (e.g., Medicaid, CHIP) and related functions (e.g., enrollment management, eligibility determination) preferred
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position for an extended period of time
- Occasionally lifts, carries, or otherwise moves items weighing up to 25lbs