What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at Luna Data Solutions, Inc.?
We have an exciting long term contract opportunity for a Project Manager in Austin, TX. This role involves coordinating the initiation, planning, scheduling, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing of assigned IT projects.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Follow the project management life cycle (PMLC) including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing one or more projects.
• Follow the agency’s Information Technology Handbook, standard operating procedures on the PMLC, review Gates, project management artifacts, and archiving.
• Manage all aspects of a technology related project.
• Ensure project tasks and products follow the development process and quality guidelines while meeting both functional and contractual requirements.
• Apply the software/systems development life cycle (SDLC) including Requirements, Design, Code/Configure, Test (System, User Acceptance, Regression, Round Trip, Smoke), Change Management/Deployment, Warranty period, and Transition to Maintenance.
• Work with peers from user area and contractor staff to coordinate, plan, assign, supervise, and evaluate the work of the project staff in a matrixed organization structure.
• Manage deliverable content expectations, review processes, and acceptance criteria. Ensure deliverables meet the agreed upon quality and content.
• Develop and manage project budgets, schedules, work plans, resource requirements, and cost estimates and projections.
• Ensure all team members understand the project standards and resolve challenges with the quality of any party's work products. Communicate with the project stakeholders, management, and other relevant parties.
• Monitor and evaluate third-party vendor and contractor performance.
Requirements:
• 5 years of experience in IT Project Management work, business analysis, or project administration.
• Experience managing complex projects throughout all development phases
• 5 years of experience in structured design and development process, scope control, project estimation, risk mitigation, and preventive and corrective actions for overruns
• 5 years of experience managing project activities; establishing project goals and objectives; exercising sound judgment in making critical decisions; analyzing complex information and developing plans to address identified issues; demonstrate negotiation and facilitation skills; identify project risks and gaps; prepare reports; and communicate effectively
• 5 years of experience reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating business systems and user and stakeholder needs
• 5 years of experience facilitating and documenting business process mapping and business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to business problems that make a business more effective
• 5 years of experience documenting detailed requirements for information technology solutions that will meet program and user needs
• 5 years of experience simultaneously collecting requirements across multiple program areas or organizations that are geographically dispersed and that have varying business needs
What We Offer:
• Work on a highly innovative team with cutting edge technology
• Great opportunity to make a big impact and take ownership on technology initiatives
• Altruistic work
• Competitive compensation and benefits including health, dental, vision, life and accident insurance, short-term disability insurance and more!
Luna Data Solutions, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees. All applicants will be considered for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to age, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, national origin, genetics, protected veteran status, and/or disability status.
