Complete Description:
Project Scope: The District’s Department of Human Services (DHS) will be utilizing the IT Staff Augmentation (ITSA) process to add skilled resources to a team of government staff for the purposes of modernizing the District’s current consolidated health and human services eligibility and enrollment system. The infrastructure in place also supports the District’s Health Benefit Exchange’s DDHealthLink.com.
Position Description: For the implementation of DCAS, the District has procured commercial-off-the-shelf software, and services of an integration vendor to build and integrate configurable solutions, to provide seamless interaction between the consumer and the health insurance marketplace, state eligibility systems, the federal and state data hubs, other systems, and Human Services enrollment. In support of this effort, the procurement includes a senior project manager resource with strong technical expertise, operating within the governance of the DHS IT project management office (PMO) a Lead Technical Project Manager, who will oversee the system integration vendor’s Releases in conjunction with its contracted solution delivery responsibilities. This includes all deliverables, activities and tasks relating to architecture, infrastructure, packaged software configuration/customization, solution component integration, and legacy system integration across the entire system development lifecycle (SDLC) of DCAS. A successful candidate for this position will be able to expertly apply project management processes and principles across the system development lifecycle.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
• Define Release scope, deliverables and roles and responsibilities in collaboration with stakeholders and business partners
• Identify skill set requirements and roles and responsibilities of the project team
• Assign and monitor work of technical personnel, ensuring that project steps are in alignment with business objectives, on-time and within budget
• Oversee all project activities across both the technical development domains and business/functional domains
• Lead the technical aspects of a specific release through the full software delivery lifecycle within a complex, multi-year program
• Understand, track and articulate issues / risks / action items; work with responsible owners to address the items on a timely basis; update the appropriate audiences as needed
• Establish relationships with technical teams in other LOBs to clearly identify and manage interdependencies
• Manage scope throughout the project duration. Maintain accurate program estimates, timelines, work plans, status reports
• Resolving conflicts by demonstrating leadership and appropriate decision-making competencies
• Identifying resource needs and negotiating with cross-agency leadership to secure necessary resources and cooperation
• Interfacing with senior technology and business managers across the firm regarding project status and resolution of issues requiring escalation
• Expertise in project management discipline and techniques
• Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams and interact with all levels
• Identify, analyze and prioritize project risks and impact of risks on the project
• Monitor and control change requests and determine feasibility of change requests and downstream impact. Manage approval process for change requests
Qualifications:
• Four year college degree – Required
• Master of CS or IS -- Desired
Skills:
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Expertise Rating
Leading IT product development experience
Required
5
Years
3 - Expert
Ability to analyze and develop business process
Required
10
Years
3 - Expert
Hands on software development experience
Required
5
Years
2 - Proficient
Developed product requirements based on input gathered from a variety of sources including analysis results & feedback from the user community
Required
10
Years
3 - Expert
Interface development experience using Enterprise Service Bus
Required
1
Years
2 - Proficient
Experience devlop test conditions and expected results based on the application required
Required
5
Years
2 - Proficient
Release and or configuration management
Required
3
Years
3 - Expert
Experience managing and leading teams
Required
3
Years
3 - Expert
Bachelors Degree
Required
Masters Degree (Computer Science or IT related field desired)
Highly desired