Senior Project Manager

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Serve as a hands-on senior technical project manager partnering with development teams, business leaders, enterprise architects, and technology owners to deliver complex, multi-platform IT initiatives, including those leveraging emerging AI capabilities.
• Direct and synchronize project tasks, resources, timelines, and stakeholder expectations across ITD leadership, technical teams, business units, and governance bodies.
• Oversee vendor, consultant, and contractor performance, including contract coordination, procurement collaboration, SOW validation, and delivery oversight.
• Maintain comprehensive project artifacts (budgets, schedules, risks, issues, metrics, and status reports) and deliver timely updates aligned with the communications plan.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences, fostering alignment across IT, security, business teams, and vendor partners.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate technical, security, operational, and vendor-related risks across all project phases.
• Ensure all project solutions adhere to agency architecture standards, security policies, best practices, and VDOT/VITA project management governance requirements.
• Track and evaluate vendor and third-party deliverables using defined KPIs and SLAs to ensure quality, timeliness, and contractual compliance.
• Manage project milestones, deliverables, change control, and release activities to ensure on-time, on-budget, and low-disruption deployments.
• Care for coordination of planning and execution of testing activities, document test objectives, and ensure creation of detailed test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Support system and application training efforts to ensure smooth adoption, operational readiness, and effective knowledge transfer.
• Provide senior-level guidance on system upgrades, cloud and infrastructure modernization, application migrations, and remediation of security or asset vulnerabilities.
• Apply strong understanding of infrastructure, databases, APIs, and application architectures to support planning, estimation, and technical decision-making.