Senior IT Project Manager (Onsite)

Serigor Inc.
Raleigh, NC
Job Title: Senior IT Project Manager (Onsite)
Location: Raleigh, NC
Duration: 12+ Month

Job Description:
The Client is seeking a senior project manager to manage the planning and implementation of a statewide IT project. This lead project management role will work with multiple internal and external stakeholders and selected vendor’s to analyze, plan, and implement the new solution. This position will be responsible for working with senior-level business executives, IT personnel, business program resources and Vendor staff to execute project requirements and manage stakeholder expectations. This position will manage the day-to-day activities for the project and complete all input the State Project Management (Touchdown) system as needed.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
  • Working with personnel within the client team and the Information Technology team to develop necessary project management, change management, risk management, rollout, and training plans. To the extent possible, integrate this project into the existing governance processes to ensure alignment of priorities and minimal disruption to ongoing operations and other required deliverables
  • Developing and maintaining detailed project schedule, budget and monitoring expenditures
  • Developing and maintaining all required project management artifacts following the client and PMBOK guidelines
  • Managing scope, resources, timelines, costs/budget, quality, communication, and procurements to meet the goals of the State
  • Leading and performing hands-on analysis of the business and technical environments, and writing procurement documents
  • Working with vendors to manage contract deliverables, oversee all vendor activities to ensure that all the milestones are met
  • Ensuring that project plans and schedules are established and maintained, ensuring that deliverables are completed timely and accurately
  • Establishing project governance, conducting formal presentations, coordinating with all project stakeholders and ensure that appropriate project controls are instituted
  • Serving as an IT project liaison to the business client
  • Working with business stakeholders to develop necessary project management, change management, risk management, rollout, and training plans
  • Working with the technical team to ensure technical readiness during implementation and supervising implementation activities
  • Developing and maintaining all required State CIO project documentation
Required skills include:
  • The Candidate must be a results-oriented individual with a very strong work ethic and must be able to demonstrate excellent IT Project Management, negotiation, communication and problem-solving skills.
  • Capable of leading effective project meetings that are tailored to the audience
  • Ability to create simple to complex project plans, timelines and work breakdown structures using project management tools
  • Must have proficiency in project management, agile, scrum, and kanban software tools
  • Must have strategic planning skills with good understanding of roadmap development.
  • Ability to write and present effective project materials, including presentations and status reports
  • Ability to work effectively with all levels of staff, clients and other IT personnel
  • Proven experience with working collaboratively with business/program partners
  • Ability to effectively identify and resolve system or business process/project issues
  • Ability to build, influence, lead and motivate effective teams towards end results
  • Flexibility, adaptability, and ability to work in a high-demand dynamic environment
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Strong written and oral communication skills, including development of project
  • Must have experience writing Procurement documents (RFP/RFQ) and technical artifacts
  • Experience as a Project Manager on a cloud-based implementation project is a plus
Management prefers applicants with the following:
  • Candidate with PMP Certification. Agile/Scrum Master certification is a plus
  • Experience managing or supervising legacy system upgrade and/or replacement projects
  • Experience collaborating with State and Local Government
  • Experience with public health programs
  • Experience planning and managing data conversion activities
  • Experience building rollout plans
Skills:

Skill Required/Desired Amount of Experience
Project management experience, preferably with large, complex automation implementation efforts Required 8 Years
Demonstrated Project Management experience on system deployments with multiple clients. Required 8 Years
Proven track record of delivering projects and work streams with aggressive timelines and deliver within scope, budget and schedule. Required 8 Years
Objective decision-making ability based on strategic objectives priority, business performance analysis and resource availability. Required 8 Years
Hands on experience managing project risk, cost, schedule, quality, testing, and communications. Required 7 Years
Strong leadership, organizational, interpersonal and time management skills. Required 3 Years
Demonstrated oral and written communication and presentation skills. Required 3 Years
Solid work experience with project management tools (e.g. Microsoft Project) Required 7 Years
Experience with MS Office and SharePoint. Required 7 Years
Demonstrated experience with both Waterfall and Agile Projects Required 5 Years
Demonstrated experience with vendor management on a large IT project/system implementation Required 8 Years
Demonstrate technical architecture/infrastructure knowledge and experience, including experience with multiple hardware platforms and operating system Required 8 Years
Demonstrate technical knowledge and analysis skills with hands-on experience in development, data base design, and web-based technologies Required 8 Years
Demonstrated experience working with DPH public health programs Highly desired 5 Years
Extensive understanding of SharePoint end user experience, sites, libraries, lists and groups Highly desired 3 Years
Experience in health care industry Highly desired 5 Years
Experience leading and Implementing COTS and SAAS Projects Desired 7 Years
Experience writing RFPs/technical writing Highly desired 5 Years
Understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development Required 3 Years
Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for a software development / maintenance teams that was diligently applying Agile / Kanban values and prin Highly desired 3 Years
PMP Certification from PMI. Scrum Master certification is a plus Highly desired 5 Years
Ability to help manage Scrum team backlog and/or Kanban Flow, and priorities using agile based tools (ServiceNow, Jira, Version One etc.) Required 3 Years
Experience managing legacy system upgrade/migration, data conversion activities and building roll-out plans Highly desired 5 Years


Posted 2025-10-29

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