Senior Project Manager

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex technical initiatives within a large Integrated Eligibility System environment. This role will provide project leadership across scope, schedule, budget, risks, resources, vendor implementations, and data-related activities while coordinating with technical teams, business stakeholders, and program governance groups. Located in Albany, NY – Hybrid. Duration: 30 months.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight to project managers and support overall program objectives from a project management perspective.
• Define and manage project scope, schedules, budgets, milestones, and deliverables.
• Monitor schedule and budget variances and develop mitigation strategies for project risks.
• Proactively identify, assess, track, and mitigate project risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions.
• Manage project activities in accordance with established change control processes.
• Lead project teams throughout the systems development lifecycle, including requirements, technical design, development, testing, deployment, training, and pilot implementation.
• Manage project communication plans, actions, decisions, risks, issues, and interdependencies.
• Manage resources within a matrixed organization and coordinate resource allocation based on project priorities.
• Lead project groups and coordinate activities across stakeholder organizations.
• Facilitate meetings to clarify business requirements, technical requirements, priorities, and project decisions.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to ensure project objectives, responsibilities, and expectations are clearly defined.
• Oversee and coordinate system integration vendor implementations, including scope, methodology, resource management, deliverables, approvals, and progress reporting.
• Support data conversion, data modeling, legacy system transition, ETL coordination, and data quality validation activities.
• Prepare and deliver regular project status reports to program leadership, sponsors, steering committees, and governance groups.
• Perform other related project management duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience working on complex projects, including 2+ years of experience in a leadership role as a Project Manager.
• 12+ years of experience as a PMO Project Manager.
• 12+ years of experience working within or supporting a Project Management Office.
• Experience managing projects supporting a Health and Human Services eligibility system involving at least one of the following domains: Medicaid, Public Assistance, SNAP, HEAP, Child Care, or Fair Hearings.
• Experience with data conversion and