PMP Project Manager

About the role

We are seeking a PMP Project Manager who will support our NYS client. This role will lead delivery governance, schedule management, milestones, and cross-functional coordination for the CFA Redesign and Hosting modernization initiative. The Project Manager will support the design, development, migration, and cloud hosting of a new application platform that improves applicant and agency user experience.

Duties

• Lead overall project delivery governance for the CFA Redesign and Hosting initiative, including schedule, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and status reporting.
• Cook up cross-functional teams across application development, business stakeholders, QA, infrastructure, cloud hosting, security, data migration, reporting, and support workstreams.
• Manage project planning and execution activities for the design, development, migration, and implementation of a modern cloud-based CFA application platform.
• Facilitate stakeholder communication with ESD administrators, participating agencies, technical teams, vendors, and executive leadership to align scope, priorities, and delivery expectations.
• Track progress against project objectives, escalate risks and blockers, maintain project artifacts, and ensure timely completion of deliverables.
• Support planning for historical CFA data migration, user acceptance testing, deployment readiness, transition to hosting operations, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and ongoing support.

Mandatory Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience managing complex IT/application implementation projects.
• Experience leading cloud-based application development or modernization initiatives.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams, including development, business, QA, and infrastructure teams.
• Strong experience with project planning, timelines, milestones, risks/issues, status reporting, and stakeholder communication.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder facilitation, and vendor coordination skills.

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience with government, state agency, or enterprise implementation projects preferred.
• Experience supporting application modernization initiatives involving legacy platform replacement, data migration, configurable workflows, reporting, dashboards, and analytics capabilities preferred.
• Experience coordinating secure cloud hosting, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and ongoing support planning preferred.

Educational & Certification Requirements

• PMP or equivalent project management certification preferred.

What We Offer

Opportunities to lead impactful transformations in the public sector infrastructure.
Engagement with high-profile government initiatives, supporting meaningful change.
A collaborative environment that values ownership, initiative, and continuous learning.