Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Plan, direct, and coordinate project management activities for designated projects, ensuring goals and objectives are met within prescribed timeframes and requirements.
• Coordinate and complete projects on time, within budget, and within scope.
• Oversee all aspects of projects, set deadlines, assign responsibilities, and monitor and summarize progress.
• Prepare reports for the project portfolio and upper management regarding project status.
• Work directly with clients to ensure deliverables fall within the applicable scope and budget.
• Lead and direct the work of others, reporting to the Lead IT Project Manager.
• Develop requirement specifications, business cases, functional specifications, process models, and state transition models.
• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Perform gap analysis to compare solutions against stakeholder requirements.
• Conduct vendor product evaluations.
• Enhance the capabilities and effectiveness of NDOT by ensuring proposed solutions are properly understood and exploited.
• Create and publish project documents, including project scope, schedule, business requirements, risk assessments, and time estimates.
• Determine resources required to accomplish project objectives.
• Conduct or participate in stakeholder meetings.
• Create and execute plans for communication, change control, quality, risk control, and coordination of activities.
• Oversee execution of project tasks, monitor performance, and resolve project slippage or constraints promptly.
• Manage stakeholder expectations, project risks, and problem resolution.
• Control project scope, schedule, and status reporting.
• Facilitate closeout activities such as lessons learned and customer feedback.
• Perform analysis and document process flows.
• Understand and perform QA/QC functions, potentially leading others in QA/QC activities.
• Capture business requirements and assist with design and development.
• Use Azure DevOps to create product backlogs, user stories, and tasks.
• Perform process‑flow analysis of existing systems/applications.
• Support Department of Transportation, Highway Safety, Traffic Safety, and Financial systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or technical degree in Computer Science, Software Development, Project Management, or equivalent combination of education and at least 5 + years of project management experience.
• Minimum 2 + years of experience managing projects/software development utilizing Agile SDLC.
• At least 5 years of overall project management experience.
• Strong soft skills with the ability to empower, motivate, and influence others without direct authority.
• Excellent client‑facing and internal communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Solid organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to multitask.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Proven experience leading project teams of various sizes through to completion.
• Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies such as PMI.
• Experience as an IT project manager or ERP project manager.
• Ability to develop requirement specifications, business cases, functional specifications, process models, and state transition models.
• Experience performing gap analysis, vendor evaluations, and creating project charters.
• Capability to create and maintain project documentation (scope, schedule, requirements, risk assessments, time estimates).
• Experience creating and executing communication, change control, quality, and risk management plans.
• Proficiency in overseeing task execution, monitoring performance, and addressing project constraints.
• Skill in managing stakeholder expectations, risks, and problem resolution.
• Experience controlling project scope, schedule, and producing status reports.
• Ability to facilitate project closeout activities, including lessons learned and customer feedback.
• Detail‑oriented with experience performing process‑flow analysis and QA/QC functions.
• Experience capturing business requirements and assisting with design and development.
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps for backlog, user story, and task creation.
• Ability to perform process‑flow analysis of existing systems/applications.
• Must be able to work onsite and remotely as required, with regular and reliable attendance.
• Experience supporting Department of Transportation, Highway Safety, Traffic Safety, or Financial systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with all aspects of project management.
• Experience with Agile development utilizing Scrum.
• Experience working directly with developers and end users.
• Project Management certification (desired but not required).
• Experience performing or assisting with testing.
• Experience with Web Services and Windows Services.
• Experience using Microsoft SQL Server.
• Experience with CICS and handling multiple concurrent projects.
• Familiarity with NDOT’s Agile development methodology and web applications built in MVC pattern using MSF C#.NET, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML.
• Knowledge of legacy systems built with COBOL, CICS, and DB2 Z/OS.