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Job Title: Senior Project Manager /Technical Analyst
Location: Jackson, MS
Duration: 36+ Months
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Location: Jackson, MS
Duration: 36+ Months
Job Description:
- The *** *** is currently seeking a candidate to work within the Department of *** IT Project Management Office (PMO) to provide project management and technical analyst services in support of a joint agency project with the ***.
- The position will also assist with *** agency modernization initiatives in compliance with federal and state regulations.
- The prospect should be a proven resource that can be effective in multiple technical and business specialties while focusing on project requirements (Product, schedule, budget, etc.).
- This resource would provide intra-agency project leadership to organize and track multiple project phases, with multiple vendors, business stakeholders, and technical teams while achieving defined implementation goals.
- The applicant will also operate as a technical analyst providing guidance to vendor teams and clarifying *** requirements and needs to vendors.
- The prospect will coordinate state team briefings, status reports, and strategic planning sessions to achieve agency initiatives.
- The resource must be proficient with Microsoft Office tools such as Project, Word, Excel, SharePoint, Teams, and PowerPoint.
- The candidate should have experience writing software design documentation and human services business processes. This position requires excellent business communications skills (written and verbal).
- The selected candidate will work across *** program areas and interface with *** and *** Project Managers, enterprise architects, business analysts, software development teams and business area subject matter experts.
Required Experience:
- The candidate must have a minimum of five (5) years experience leading medium and large-scale health and human service projects.
- The candidate must have a minimum of three (3) years experience as a management resource on joint state agency projects.
- The candidate must have a minimum of three (3) years' experience operating as a management resource on a multi-vendor, multi-module, multi-phase integration project(s).
- The candidate must have a minimum of three (3) years' experience acting as a technical analyst directly interfacing between state and vendor staff.
- The candidate must have a minimum of one (1) year of experience writing and participating in scoring *** procurement proposals.
- The candidate must have a minimum of one (1) years experience of developing or directly reporting from a Microsoft Project schedule.
- The candidate must have a minimum of one (1) year experience of technical analyst experience writing requirements, developing design documentation, and directly engaging vendors to interpret requirements.
- The candidate must have a minimum of one (1) year experience directly acting as a technical analyst for the state bringing vendor decisions to the state and bringing state decisions to the vendor.
- The candidate must have experience integrating an identity index such as a master person index into an existing software infrastructure.
- The candidate must have experience integrating fraud and abuse detection into an existing software infrastructure. The candidate must have experience integrating a client focused human services benefit application and benefit account management web portal into an existing state eligibility infrastructure.
- The candidate must have experience integrating an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) into a multi module infrastructure that includes State and external vendor modules.
- The candidate must have a strong knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle processes.
- The candidate must have experience working within an agile team environment.
Desired Skills:
- The candidate must demonstrate the necessary skills and experience listed above for execution of all assigned engagements.
- Candidate must possess strong verbal and written skills to discuss and document technical topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Candiate must have experience writing reports, designing documents, requirements, test cases, test plans, and test results.
- The candidate must provide a summary of qualifications, years of experience and provide contact information for three references who would be willing to verify qualifications, experience, and performance.
