Project Manager
CAI

Project Manager
Req number:
R1972
Employment type:
Full time
Worksite flexibility:
Onsite
Job Summary
As a Project Manager you will be responsible for the management of one or multiple moderately complex projects concurrently; plans and performs analysis of company functions, processes, and activities
Job Description

We are looking for a Mainframe Project Manager to lead a new project centered on evaluating existing applications hosted on the mainframe. This position will be full-time and onsite inSan Bernardino, CA.

What you'll do

• The Innovation & Technology Department, is launching a new project to evaluate existing applications hosted on the mainframe. The goal is to modernize these applications to mitigate known risk and improve business operations by taking advantage of new and fully supported technology and industry standards.
  
• The current applications are owned by multiple departments throughout the County. They differ in size, function & complexity and integrate with State or other third-party systems. The County currently uses and supports Microsoft technologies.
  
• The Project Manager's role is to initiate, plan, execute, control and close projects according to the established Project Management Methodology. This will ensure project meets or exceeds timeline, budget, and quality expectations, including requesting resources and coordinating the efforts of departmental staff and third-party contractors or consultants to deliver projects according to plan.
  
• The Project Manager will work with County Directors and/or Department Heads and stakeholders to define the project's objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle.
  
• The successful candidate will be one who utilizes leadership skills, sound judgment, and discretion to positively influence project teams and overall project success. Responsibilities are described below and may be dependent on the specific assignment.
  
• The Project Manager will be responsible for leading an enterprise multi-disciplinary team, assigning individual responsibilities, enforcing accountability, developing and maintaining a schedule and timeline to ensure timely completion of the project.
  
• Maintain industry standard project management documentation, agile methodology and metrics to ensure project meets service delivery expectations.
  
• Work directly with internal and external project stakeholders & SME's to document workflow and process to deliver successful implementation while managing project scope.
  
• The Project Manager will also work to define the resource roles, objectives and provide oversight throughout the project's life cycle.
  

What you'll need

Required:

• 5-8+ years proven project management experience including scope and requirements definition, problem solving and process improvements, leading modernization efforts from mainframe to new tech platforms.
  
• Proficiency with MS Project, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
  
• 5+ years' experience utilizing Software Development methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid as well as managed services support structure and best practices.
  
• Ability to recognize personal skills, abilities, limitations and strengths, taking appropriate action to pursue developmental activities to strengthen skills and experience.
  
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to adapt to frequent change.
  
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  
• Strong communication, organizational, analytical, problem-solving and interpersonal skills that promote teamwork and collaboration.
  
• Ability to advocate a creative atmosphere, facilitates productive meetings, and envisions a final product and user adoption early in the design and/or development process.
  
• Ability to develop cooperative relationships to achieve results through a win-win relationship.
  
• Ability to establish alliances with other departments and organizations by recognizing dependencies.
  
• Ability to identify project risks by defining risk strategies and developing the risk management plan.
  
• Communication: Ability to relate and communicate positively, effectively, and professionally with project stakeholders at all levels.
  
• Ability to establish an effective communication plan through various communication channels and project correspondence (project plan, presentations, project status, reports as required).
  
• Change Management: Manage changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques to keep the project plan accurate, updated, and reflective of authorized changes as defined in the change management plan; facilitate customer acceptance. Ability to make course corrections when necessary using structured and well-defined change management protocols and change control procedures.
  
• Methodology: Champions best practices and methodologies to establish a solid foundation on how to execute the project. Ability to apply development methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid as well as managed services best practices to ensure compliance and security across operations. This includes endpoint security, network security, cloud security and policy management.
  
• Contract Management: Formalize and facilitate closing final acceptance for the project from the sponsor/customer by ensuring that the delivered product(s) and services comply with the agreed deliverables lists, scope, and any organizational procedures from all parties involved.
  
• Risk Management: Proactively assess, identify and communicate project risks and come up with a mitigation plan of action.
  

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field.
  
• PMP or Scrum equivalent certification.
  
• Previous functional/technical government program experience either as an internal consultant or with a consulting/software organization
  
• Previous project management, and public sector program administration and/or implementation experience in a government setting.
  
• Previous experience working in a government setting managing multiple projects comprising of an enterprise effort related to retiring legacy applications with a focus on modernization using Microsoft technologies.
  

Physical Demands

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state, and local standards
  
• Sedentary work that involves sitting or remaining stationary most of the time with occasional need to move around the office to attend meetings, etc.
  
• Ability to conduct repetitive tasks on a computer, utilizing a mouse, keyboard, and monitor.
  

Reasonable Accommodation Statement

If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employment selection process, please direct your inquiries to application.accommodations@cai.io or (888) 824 - 8111.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement

It is the policy of CAI not to discriminate against any employee or applicant due to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or being a protected veteran. It is also the policy of CAI to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or being a protected veteran, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment. Employees and applicants of CAI will not be subject to harassment due to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or being a protected veteran. Additionally, retaliation, including intimidation, threats, or coercion, because an employee or applicant has objected to discrimination, engaged or may engage in filing a complaint, assisted in a review, investigation, or hearing or have otherwise sought to obtain their legal rights under any Federal, State, or local EEO law is prohibited.

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