Certified Project Manager III - REMOTE

Location: Remote

Duration: 4 months contract with possibility to extension

The client is looking for a result-oriented and adaptable individual with a 'can do attitude' to lead business intelligence projects, legacy, and modernized software/application development projects for our business partners. This project manager will lead multiple projects from small to multi-million-dollar development efforts. The project manager will work with other project managers and possibly with other departments such as the Department of Administration (DOA) and the Department of Health Services (DHS). The person in this role will lead the business intelligence and software/application development team members to complete projects and work closely with our business partners to ensure its success.

The Project Manager III designs, plans, and coordinates work teams. Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI's framework. Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor. Creates project charter and work plan, and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics. Establishes project organization and methodologies and defines roles and responsibilities. Document risks and develop mitigation plans. Manages scope. Project manager capabilities with 12 or more years of experience. Capable of managing a project with up to ten (10) or more staff and/or a project with multiple subprojects. Experience with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.

The individual in this position will:

• Be responsible for technical and overall project management on enterprise-wide business intelligence, software/application development, and infrastructure/architecture projects.
• Works closely with the project sponsor and IT senior management to understand and prioritize project tasks. Solve complex technical problems. Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs feasibility studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives in support of enterprise-wide business intelligence.
• Build an effective team and direct the work of the project team to meet project milestones. Develops standards, policies and procedures for the form, structure and attributes of the business intelligence documentation, tools, and systems. Develops data/information quality metrics.
• Develop and maintain project charters, plans, deliverables, and other project artifacts.
• Work closely with the project sponsor and IT senior management to understand and prioritize project tasks, solve complex technical problems, understand business objectives and problems, identify alternative solutions, and perform feasibility studies and cost/benefit analysis.
• Research new technology and develop business cases to support enterprise-wide business intelligence solutions. Participate in special projects as required.
• Have 12+ years of project management experience with leading large and complex database management systems, business intelligence tools and systems.
• Selected candidate must provide copies of any/all certifications as part of the hiring process.

Qualifications & Years of Experience:

Change management - Must Have - 5+ years

Project management - Must Have - 12+ years

In depth knowledge of System development life cycle deliverables for each phase of development - Must Have - 12+ years

Demonstrated competence in promoting understanding and cooperation within and between organizations - Must Have - 12+ years

Group facilitation - Must Have - 12+ years

Experience in technical writing and documentation - Must Have - 10+ years

Analytical/problem solving skills - Must Have - 10+ years

Excellent oral and written communication skills - Must Have - 10+ years

Excel (MS) - Must Have - 10+ years

Outlook - Must Have - 10+ years

MS Office Products - Must Have - 10+ years

MS Project - Nice to Have - 3+ years

Expertise in implementation of large, complicated models and processes - Must Have - 5+ years

Excellent organization, analytical and communication skills - Must Have - 10 years

Strong verbal communications skills with ability to clearly present information and ideas to groups - Must Have - 12+ years

User test, system test and user acceptance test plans - Must Have - 5+ years

Data analysis - Must Have - 5+ years

Informatica - Must Have - 5+ years

Data Warehouse experience in data warehouse design and development - Must Have - 5+ years

Data Warehouse - Experience in requirements gathering for data warehouse - Must Have - 5+ years

Knowledge of Kimball data warehouse design principals - Nice to Have - 5+ years

In-depth knowledge of system development life cycle deliverables for each phase of development - Must Have - 5+ years

Requirements analysis - Must Have - 5+ years

Requirements gathering - Must Have - 5+ years

Scope & Risk Management - Must Have - 12+ years

Business Objects or other BI tools - Must Have - 5+ years

Demonstrated experience in the design and utilization of performance measures and reports - Nice to Have - 3+ years

State of Wisconsin Privacy Regulations - Nice to Have - Previous experience

Work with customers to solve problems and support their needs - Must Have - 10+ years

Top skills:

• Thorough understanding of industry standard project management methodologies and reporting (12+ years) including PMP (or similar industry standard) Certification
• Strong customer service and relationship management experience
• Experience managing multiple in-flight business intelligence/data warehousing and application development projects simultaneously.