State client exp mustWork Location: Austin, Texas Hybrid
Contract Duration: Long Term
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as Deputy Project Manager for the Legacy Systems Replacement Project.
- Partner with the Project Manager and PMO leadership on complex project management activities.
- Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams and workstreams throughout the full project lifecycle.
- Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions with business and technical stakeholders.
- Document, analyze, consolidate, and manage enterprise IT requirements.
- Coordinate system integrations and data migration activities.
- Lead comprehensive User Acceptance Testing (UAT) cycles.
- Establish UAT entry and exit criteria and manage business-unit validation schedules.
- Track defects and coordinate resolution activities.
- Develop and maintain project reports, dashboards, and executive-level communications.
- Support contractor deliverables, change requests, invoicing, and budget tracking.
- Assist with Maintenance & Operations (M&O) activities.
- Perform business process analysis, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), and process mapping.
- Manage project risks, issues, scope, estimates, corrective actions, and project controls.
- Coordinate end-user training strategies, including Train-the-Trainer (TTT) approaches.
- Facilitate communication, negotiation, and decision-making among business, technical, vendor, and executive stakeholders.
- Support Agile or Hybrid project delivery methodologies where applicable.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience managing large, complex IT modernization projects through all development phases, from inception through Maintenance & Operations.
- 10+ years leading and coordinating cross-functional project activities, including executive communication, negotiation, and facilitation.
- 8+ years reviewing and analyzing complex business systems and stakeholder needs, including BPR and process mapping.
- 5+ years utilizing the Texas Project Delivery Framework.
- 5+ years documenting detailed requirements for enterprise IT solutions and consolidating requirements across geographically dispersed business areas.
- 5+ years leading comprehensive UAT cycles for large-scale enterprise IT implementations.
- 5+ years designing and coordinating enterprise-wide end-user training strategies, including Train-the-Trainer (TTT) methodology.
- 3+ years working with the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) and Data Center Services (DCS), including implementation of cloud-based solutions.
- 5+ years of direct experience managing Salesforce implementation or migration projects, particularly in government or highly regulated licensing environments.
- 4+ years coordinating UAT for Salesforce or major cloud SaaS implementations.
- Experience managing Salesforce sandbox testing environments and validating user-story acceptance criteria.
- 4+ years managing organizational change readiness and end-user training for Salesforce or modern cloud-based CRM platforms.
- 4+ years working directly with a Texas State Agency as a Project Manager.
- Active PMP certification.
- 3+ years managing Agile or Hybrid (Waterfall/Agile) project delivery teams, especially for cloud SaaS implementations.
Ideal Candidate ProfileThe ideal candidate is a senior IT Project Manager / Deputy Project Manager with extensive experience delivering large-scale modernization programs in government or highly regulated environments.Strong candidates should have a combination of:
- Texas State Government project experience
- Texas Project Delivery Framework expertise
- Large-scale IT modernization experience
- Cloud/SaaS implementation experience
- Salesforce implementation or migration experience
- Strong UAT leadership
- Business process reengineering and requirements management
- Enterprise training and change management
- Vendor and contract management
- Executive-level communication
- Agile/Hybrid delivery experience
- PMP certification
Thanks & RegardsMohammad Faisal
