Senior IT Project Manager - Enterprise Technology PMO

Requirements

Description & Requirements Maximus is currently seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead and track the development and implementation of a complex, strategic initiative across multiple development or service teams. This role requires strong project management skills and the technical acumen to understand and coordinate system-level functions. The successful candidate will ensure alignment with strategic goals, manage dependencies, and support execution from planning through delivery. This is a remote position. Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as the point of contact and client interface for project technology related issues.
• Manage project expectations, evaluate project needs, and communicate with stakeholders to ensure that program needs are met with respect to urgency and priority.
• Develop trust, credibility, and strong client relationships; seeks opportunities to add value to internal and external client initiatives.
• Review all project deliverables to ensure quality and accuracy meet project, stakeholder, and contractual standards.
• Execute all project management functions including; work breakdown and cost estimation, scheduling, monitoring and tracking of technical progress against the defined timetables and budgets, and staff assignment and development.
• Lead and direct the successful delivery of application development, systems integration, infrastructure, and product installation/customization services while ensuring that assigned projects adhere to the approved life cycle work patterns, standards, and procedures for solution delivery.
• Define and implement development plans for assigned projects.
• Typically responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area.
• Ensure staff is knowledgeable on the applications and technologies in use on the project and that project team understands and follows processes and procedures.
• Provide detailed direction during various stages of the lifecycle to include requirements analysis, testing, and potentially programming support.
• Identify and assess new functional capabilities supporting engineering change proposals and additional follow on work.
• Identify, track, manage, and communicate risks and issues with stakeholders and upper management.
• Coordinate, prepare, and manage technical presentations and functional demonstrations to internal and external stakeholders.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary point of contact between program leadership and external (government) client representatives to ensure clear communication and alignment across the project lifecycle (initiate, plan, execute, monitor/control, close).
• Strong communication skills, including executive briefings and clear written status reporting.
• Coordinate daily with Chief Engineer and Lead Product Owner to manage the full project lifecycle with a focus on maintaining the requirements register, cross-team dependencies, risk assessments, and reference architectures.
• Build and manage client relationships; align expectations with sponsors and stakeholders in accordance with the contract or program scope; and proactively surface risks, decisions, and tradeoffs to maintain alignment to contract scope, priorities, and outcomes.
• Plan and lead program kickoffs and provide weekly updates and monthly/quarterly program management reviews
• Ensure Chief Engineer and Lead Product Owner are synchronized to drive recurring delivery ceremonies (e.g., dev/test standups, sprint reviews, integrated planning sessions, stakeholder briefings) in order to meet requirements and technical program milestones.
• Facilitate cross-functional coordination among business operations, engineering, security, and senior leadership to ensure requirements, priorities, and approvals are understood, documented, and executed.
• Lead and develop program resources (direct reports and/or matrixed team members) through clear goal setting, prioritization, coaching, performance feedback, and escalation management; drive accountability by influence across engineering, product, operations, and vendors to deliver integrated program outcomes.
• Provide routine status reporting and executive-level briefings; identify and escalate schedule, scope, cost, quality, and resource impacts; and support change control by ensuring change requests are documented at the appropriate levels and driving approvals with appropriate stakeholders.
• Work with Chief Engineer to stay apprised of release and delivery schedules in order to ensure Transition Schedules and/or Contract Deliverables are met.
• Manage action items and the RAID log