What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager III position at EXOS IT?
DWDS Project Manager and Scrum Master
- Coordinate, manage and lead DWDS IT projects, develop and maintain project plans and implementation schedules, identify project resources, establish proper project controls and ensure project schedules are maintained, manage overall release and individual iteration planning efforts.
- Serve as DWDS project manager and Scrum Master which entails facilitating project/scrum ceremonies and meetings, creating project artifacts and documentation, providing subject matter expertise when needed and performing project planning/management tasks.
- Develop project work plans, including estimates, to support the agency's strategic IT plans and meet strategic objectives. Negotiate estimates for costs, timelines and resources. Ensure project implementation plans include appropriate resource estimates along with estimates versus actual expenditures and target dates.
- Leverage performance metrics to monitor the progress of assigned projects against plans. Initiate appropriate actions to assure that project deadlines and schedules are met and that project costs are controlled, including resource leveling across multiple projects, along with other agency project managers. Communicate status of projects to IT leadership and senior leadership. Inform product owners and management of any variance from plans.
- Prepare formal status reports and presentations to keep agency customers and IT and senior leadership informed of project progress, milestones and issues.
- Establish project vision and objectives along with evaluate alternative approaches.
- As needed, support the integration of vendor solutions into the business processes and technologies in place.
- Ensure the oversight and coordination of dependencies across DWDS projects and programs in the portfolio and resolve or escalate conflicts.
- Maintain roadmap of project/initiative delivery. Manage prioritization, resourcing and scheduling of requests working with business and IT managers. Assist business line with IT facilitation of strategy. Drive vendor evaluation and selection for new solutions.
- Work with project teams to manage/oversee the full range of the project life cycle (initiate, planning, execute, close-out) for projects covering a portfolio of projects which focus on the business needs of a specific business line(s) or strategy. Deliver projects according to agreed-upon timeline, budget, and scope. Create strategies for risk mitigation and formulate complex project/program plans and schedules.
- Assist with the definition of requirements and the preparation of bid documents for the acquisition of applications and assist with the evaluation of responses.
- Discover, analyze, organize and document application functional and data requirements.
- Develop and evaluate solution alternatives that solve the needs of the business area or agency.
- Facilitate application requirements gathering sessions.
