IT Project Manager

• Provide project management support
  • Be accountable for creating and communicating project artifacts
  • Regularly communicate scope/schedule status to stakeholders and negotiate changes to either
  • Manage project dependencies and sequencing of activities
  • Define project initiative and outcomes to ensure completion
• Provide IT application support
  • Install/configure websites, applications, and databases
  • Provide 2nd level support - Troubleshoot website, application, and database issues; consult with other resources and perform research to determine source of issues; resolve issues
  • Manage remote access to systems
  • Be responsible for the overall planning, execution, and success of complex software solutions to meet customer needs
  • Provide technical direction on software applications in order to manage day-to-day operations
  • Manage vendor purchase requests, subscriptions, contracts, and payment
  • Manage vendor professional services
  • Implement and manage chatbots
• Provide data storage optimization, database analysis, and Azure modernization support
  • Conduct comprehensive assessments of current data storage environments across participating divisions, including evaluation of storage capacity, performance, access patterns, bottlenecks, retention practices, and data sensitivity classifications
  • Perform database analysis of legacy systems, application databases, and other structured data environments to identify dependencies, inefficiencies, scalability concerns, and modernization opportunities
  • Lead structured requirements gathering sessions with business and technical stakeholders to capture current-state challenges, data usage needs, reporting requirements, and long-term operational objectives
  • Translate requirements and assessment findings into detailed technical documentation and recommendations, including modernization paths such as consolidation, re architecting, or migration to Azure-based solutions
  • Provide expert guidance on Azure data services (Azure SQL, storage accounts, Data Lake, and related capabilities) and propose future-state architectures that align with enterprise standards, governance requirements, and security policies
  • Support the planning and design of cloud migration strategies, proof-of-concept initiatives, and phased implementation roadmaps
  • Deliver current state assessment reports, detailed requirements documentation, proposed future state designs, and a migration or consolidation strategy with clearly defined risks, timelines, and resource considerations
  • Provide consultation to support decision-making and ensure alignment with enterprise standards
• Perform testing on websites, applications, and databases
• Coordinate activities with Admin divisions, MNIT, and other consultant IT resources
• Review software packages and hardware and advise selection committee of security implications and risk mitigation requirements
• Provide knowledge transfer to State staff
• Perform other related duties as assigned

(Qualifications begin on next page)

• Experience in IT project management roles
• Experience in IT application support roles
• Experience supporting applications in Microsoft Azure and/or administering environments in Microsoft Azure
• Experience in data storage optimization
• Experience in database analysis
• Experience in Azure modernization support
  
  Azure administrator certification
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting Microsoft SQL databases
• Experience with Share File
• Experience with Tableau
• Experience with Drupal
• Experience with Acquia
• Experience with On Contact