IT Project Engineer jobs in Olympia, WA

Description

• Foster an environment of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strive to hire, cultivate and retain a competitive workforce that reflects the communities we serve.
• Offer telework and remote work opportunities, when possible, by offering work tools that promote creative collaboration, drive efficiency, and best suit the important work we do whether you live five minutes from our work building or work elsewhere in the state.
• Encourage a healthy life/work balance by offering flexible/alternative work schedules, wellness activities, mobile arrangements and telework opportunities.
• Offer an Infants at Work Program to promote parent and infant bonding, parental well-being and healthy infant development. Depending on your job duties, work location and supervisor approval, eligible employees who are new mothers, fathers or legal guardians can bring their infant (six weeks to six months) when they return to work.

Duties

What you’ll do:

• Lead, plan, and control multiple projects and sub-projects for the implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application for OFM.
• Provide leadership, consultation and oversight to the project team members and stakeholders through the duration of the project.
• Be responsible for all aspects of the project over the entire project life.
• Manage change, risk, and quality management processes throughout the lifecycle of the projects.
• Coach and mentor waterfall, hybrid, and agile teams to ensure projects deliver the desired outcomes and benefits.
• Perform application contract management, working with contract specialists during RFQQ, RFP, and Procurement processes.
• Develop all the required project documentation including but not limited to plans to manage the project integration, scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communications, risk, procurement, change and stakeholders.
• Conduct project closeout activities such as lessons learned, post-implementation report, transition plans, documentation clean-up, resource release, etc.
• Manage matrixed resources provided by multiple divisions and agencies.
• Communicate key project information (i.e. issues, risks, changes, accomplishments) to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with OFM PMO Team to create, review, implement, and update project templates, tools, processes, and standards.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, public administration, business management, project management, or related field (additional related professional experience may substitute for the educational requirement on a year-for-year basis).
• Four years’ of experience successfully managing information technology projects.

• Three years' experience in and demonstrated understanding of the project domain, sufficient to review activities and tasks with domain experts and verify estimated levels of effort.
• Skill at managing interpersonal relations to build rapport inside and outside the immediate project team and can motivate through leadership.
  

• Project Management Professional Certification or formal Project Management coursework such as UW PM certification or similar training (minimum of 72 hours of project management education or training).
• Scrum Master Certification and 5 years’ experience working in an Agile environment.
• PROSCI or similar certification in Organizational Change Management.

Supplemental Information

To be considered for this position, please include the following along with your application:

• Letter of interest: describing your specific qualifications.
• Resume: that details your applicable experience and education.
• References: at least three professional references with current telephone numbers.