Project Manager

Title :- Project Manager

Location- Lincoln Nebraska

Requirements:

• Qualified applicants will have a Bachelor's degree or Technical degree in Computer Science/Software Development/Project Management (or equivalent combination of education and minimum 5+ year’s Project Management experience).
• Must have minimum 2+ years of experience in managing projects/software development utilizing Agile SDLC.
• Minimum 5 years project management experience

Must possess experience with the following project management activities:

• Strong soft skills with a distinctive ability to empower, motivate and influence others without authority or a direct reporting relationship.
• Develop requirement specifications, business cases, functional specifications, process models and state transition models.
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Perform gap analysis to compare solutions against stakeholder requirement. Conduct vendor product evaluations.
• Enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of NDOT, by ensuring that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited.
• Proven working experience in project management.
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Proven experience in project management.
• Ability to lead project teams of various sizes and see them through to completion
• Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies such as Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Experience as an IT project manager or ERP project manager
• Leading process to complete project charter and obtain necessary approvals
• Creating and publishing project documents to include project scope, project schedule, business requirements, risk assessment and response, and time estimates
• Determining resources required to accomplish project objectives.
• Conducting or participating in stakeholder meetings
• Creating and executing plans for communication, change control, quality and risk control, and specific coordination of activities.
• Oversee execution of project tasks, monitoring performance and solving project slippage and/or constraints in timely manner
• Managing stakeholder expectations, project risks and solving problems
• Controlling project scope and changes, schedule, and status reporting
• Facilitate closeout activities like lessons learned and customer feedback
• Extremely detail oriented
• Perform analysis and document process flows.
• Understand and perform QA/QC functions as well as potentially lead others in QA/QC activities.
• Capture business requirements and assist with design and development.
• Experience with Azure DevOps to create product backlogs, user stories & tasks
• Must be able to perform Process Flow Analysis of existing systems/applications.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Candidate must be able to work onsite and remotely when required
• Regular and reliable attendance is required
• Experience supporting Department of Transportation / Highway Safety / Traffic Safety / Financial systems.

Preferences:

• Experience with all aspects of project management.
• Experience with Agile development utilizing SCRUM.
• Experience working with Developers and end users is a plus.
• Project Management certification desired, but not required.
• Perform or assist with testing as needed.
• Experience with Web Services and Windows Services.
• Experience using Microsoft SQL Server
• Experience with CICS.
• Experience handling multiple projects.
• NDOT utilizes Agile development methodology.
• NDOT web applications are built in MVC pattern with MSF C#.NET, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and XML which interact with the Department's Information Systems.
• NDOT has a number of legacy systems built using COBOL, CICS and DB2 Z/OS.