It Senior Project Manager

Salary : $104,972.26 - $144,892.66 Annually
Location : Bellevue, WA
Job Type: Regular
Job Number: 23-00679
Department: Information Technology
Division: IT BusStratAlign PMBA
Opening Date: 03/14/2024
Closing Date: 3/24/2024 11:59 PM Pacific
Come Join the City of Bellevue!
Please fill out your application as fully as possible. The City evaluates candidates based on the information provided in the online application only. Do not submit resumes and cover letters. Read the "Hiring Process" section below to learn more.
Job Summary
As an IT Senior Project Manager, you will:

• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle for complex technology projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope and budget, and meet business objectives.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including stakeholders, subject matter experts, IT analysts and developers, and vendors to ensure the success of a project.

Join our teamThe City of Bellevue's IT is comprised of 65 talented individuals partnering with 13 City departments that range from Police to Parks to the water utility. We are a full-service IT department responsible for the computers, applications, network, servers, telecommunications, and services critical to high-quality City operations and services. Learn more about us at Over the past 5 years, Bellevue has consistently ranked in the top 5 by the Center for Digital Government for similarly sized cities
Bellevue is a dynamic, international, and multicultural, future-focused Smart City serving 152,000 residents. Our Council vision is: "Bellevue welcomes the world, our diversity is our strength." We value all employees and their contributions. The City invests in its employees and encourages and rewards employee growth and development by building on our commonalities and our differences. Bellevue is a high-tech hub, noted for its diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. We work collectively to make it a place where you want to work, live, and play.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Apply advanced project management concepts to plan, manage, and execute technology projects, from initiation to delivery, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Define project goals, scope, and deliverables, and create detailed project plans, timelines, and budgets.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand project requirements and ensure that project deliverables meet or exceed expectations.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration among cross-functional teams, including developers, quality assurance, business analysts, and stakeholders.
• Monitor project progress and report project status to stakeholders, including identifying and mitigating risks, and resolving project issues.
• Manage project resources, including assigning tasks, tracking progress, and ensuring that project deadlines are met.
• Ensure that project documentation is complete, accurate, and up to date including project plans, status reports, and project deliverables.
• Continuously improve project management processes and methodologies and promote best practices across the organization.
• Manage procurement activities including requests for proposals, vendor selection, contract negotiations, and vendor management.
• Ensure effective communications to end users and change management best practices.
• Set up and use effective project governance oversight to resolve issues, conflicts, and priorities that can block project success.

Qualifications
Knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies

• Proven experience as an IT Project Manager, with a track record of successfully delivering complex technology projects on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Strong project management skills, including experience with project planning, risk management, and project delivery.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and executives.
• Competence in project management tools and methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and Scrum.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks, and adapt to changing project requirements.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and mitigate project risks and issues.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and methodologies
• Effective negotiator and communicator.

Experience, education, and other requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience
• 4 or more years of experience as an IT Project Manager with increasing levels of complexity or projects
• Project Management certification preferred (e.g. PMP, ScrumMaster)

Supplemental Information
Working Conditions & Physical Requirements
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work involves walking, talking, hearing, using hands to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reaching with hands and arms.
• Vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet.

HIRING PROCESS
The City evaluates candidates based on the information provided in the online application only. Do not submit resumes and cover letters. To evaluate all candidates fairly and equitably, the City will make all applicants anonymous when we are screening the applications. We will redact information from our application such as your name, address, and other demographics. To help us, please complete the online application form as fully as possible.

• Answer the Questions when requested and can be found on the Questions tab of the Job posting.
• We do not accept resumes and cover letters during the anonymous application screening stage.
• Applicants advancing to the next stage may be required to provide a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and references.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

• All candidates will be required to establish employment authorization and identity at the time of hire. The City is not able to sponsor work visas.
• All positions the completion of references checks, including at least one prior supervisor.
• Some positions may require completion of a criminal background check prior to start employment
• Some positions may require obtaining a commercial driver's license (CDL), licensures, or additional certifications.

The City of Bellevue values diversity in its workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, marital status, genetic information, veteran's status, disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local laws.
At the City of Bellevue, you'll be part of a team committed to providing exceptional customer service, upholding the public interest and advancing the community vision. The five essential and enduring principles that guide our individual actions, our interactions, and our decision making in the City of Bellevue organization is: exceptional public service, stewardship, committee to employees, integrity, and innovation. You'll work in an environment that is innovative, collaborative, future focused, and committed to excellence. Bellevue welcomes the world. Our diversity is our strength. We embrace the future while respecting our past. It's what makes the City of Bellevue an exciting place to work, live, and explore.
Have we piqued your interest yet? Come join our team! The City of Bellevue supports workplace diversity. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, genetic information, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected status. Persons needing assistance with the application process may call the Human Resources Office at 425-452-6838 or If you are invited to participate in the selection process and need ADA accommodations, please notify HR before you are scheduled for an interview or testing.
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The City of Bellevue offers employees a comprehensive benefits package providing choice, flexibility, and value!
Please Note: Seasonal, part-time, and variable employees are not eligible for the below benefits except for mandatory participation in the retirement plan assigned to the position, which will be the Municipal Employees Benefit Trust (MEBT 2) retirement plan or the Washington State Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) retirement plan and any other benefits as required by law.
The following summary applies to fully benefited positions:
Medical
Employees are offered a choice of medical coverage through the City's self-insured Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plan or Kaiser Permanente (HMO).
Dental
Employees are offered a choice of two dental carriers with plans that offer regular checkups, x-rays, fillings, and crowns. Orthodontia is available through one of the carriers.
Vision
Employees are offered a choice of vision coverage through an annual exam-only plan or a buy-up plan which includes an annual eye exam and hardware coverage.
Retirement Plans - Employees are offered three retirement plans:

• Washington State Department of Retirement Systems (DRS): Mandatory participation (PERS, LEOFF or PSERS), depending upon eligibility.
• City of Bellevue Municipal Employee's Benefit Trust (MEBT): Optional participation in this 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match contributions that vest on a 3-year schedule.
• Deferred Compensation Program (457 DCP): Optional participation in the supplemental Deferred Compensation Program also administered by DRS that allows tax-deferred savings into a variety of investments options.

Other benefits include:
More detailed information about our employee benefits is available at

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Life/Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Long Term Disability (LTD)
• Survivor Income
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 11 observed holidays per year plus 2 additional personal holidays, vacation (standard accrual of 12 days a year), and sick leave (accumulated at the rate of one day per month)
• An ORCA Card bus pass
• On-site fitness center, and self service food/coffee options
• Career development and training programs
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Paydays - The City of Bellevue pays employees on the 8th and the 23rd of each month (24 pay periods per year).
Please note that the City does not participate in the Social Security Administration (SSA) program, and employees do not earn social security credits. The mandatory DRS retirement pension plan provides the required social security replacement plan. Any social security benefits earned at other places of employment may be reduced because they are subject to the Windfall Elimination Provision or the Government Pension Offset.
NOTE: This is a brief summary of the benefit programs for the City's non-represented employees. Every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy. Benefits for employees represented by a may have different benefits. If any information on this document conflicts with the provisions of a CBA, the CBA prevails. Also, in the event of any incorrect information in this document, applicable laws, policies, rules, CBAs, or official plan documents will prevail.
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Do you have four (4) or more years of technology project management experience?

• Yes
• No

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Please describe the most complex project you have managed.
Required Question