Sr. Project manager

About the role

VARITE is looking for a qualified Senior Project Manager for one of its clients located in Los Angeles, CA. The client is a large county government entity providing comprehensive public services including public health, social services, public safety, infrastructure management, community development, and regional administration.

Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee all aspects of the most complex IT projects to deliver an IT product, service, or system.
• Manage both external and internal IT project teams and interact with department heads, agency secretaries, State control agencies, and private sector individuals of similar status.
• Define project scope, requirements, and deliverables with clients or customers.
• Develop, modify, or provide input to project plans and implement them to meet objectives.
• Coordinate and integrate project activities; manage, lead, or administer project resources.
• Monitor project activities and resources to mitigate risk; implement or maintain quality assurance processes.
• Solve problems or take corrective action when issues arise; give presentations or briefings on all aspects of the project.
• Participate in phase, milestone, and final project reviews; identify project documentation requirements or procedures.
• Develop and implement project schedules and release plans.
• Design or conduct analytical studies, feasibility studies, cost-benefit analyses, or other research.
• Evaluate, monitor, or ensure compliance with laws, regulations, policies, standards, or procedures.
• Identify standards or requirements for change management; participate in change control (e.g., reviewing change requests).
• Implement information systems security plans and procedures; ensure appropriate product-related training and documentation are developed and made available to customers.

Requirements

• Minimum of seven (7) years of broad, extensive, and increasingly responsible experience applying PM principles, methods, techniques, and tools.
• At least four (4) years of that experience must have been as a Senior PM of one or more large or complex IT projects.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Valid Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI), verified during the RFO process.

Additional Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Software Development projects, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure Dev Ops, and Agile Scrum.
• 1+ years of experience with Azure Cloud.
• Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement Plans: Participation in a company-sponsored retirement savings plan.
• Legal Service Plans: Access to attorneys for legal advice and representation.

This is a remote position for California or nearby state residents only. The selected candidate will be live scanned (fingerprinted) at the client's HR and must pass prior to onboarding.