Project Manager II

Advanced Project Leadership

Candidates MUST be WI residents or willing to relocate to WI at their own expense prior to starting. This position can work 100% remotely (within the state of WI).

Job Description:

Under general supervision, this position provides advanced project leadership for complex projects which have a significant departmental impact, that cross organization and/or agency lines, and involve interaction with other systems analysts, application programmers, customers, and management. The assignments made by the Area Supervisor involve gathering requirements from various DOT business areas and involve a large number of complex variables including multi-media and multi-platform requirements and the integration/revision of major systems.

This position is responsible for the planning, development and implementation of complex, enterprise IT systems on web, mainframe, and cloud platforms and provides leadership and direction to project teams and coordinates efforts between IT and functional teams. This position performs duties such as establishing charters, plans, schedules, and priorities. It is also responsible for reviewing business case documentation, managing requirements, and developing web design solutions that ensure consistency with departmental and statewide architectures, methodologies, standards, and policies.

Responsibilities:

• Review business case documentation, manage requirements, and develop web design solutions that ensures consistency with departmental and statewide architectures, methodologies, standards, and policies.
• Review the project team’s development specifications to ensure they are properly and consistently applied to the Bureau’s project development methodologies and tools, and conform to departmental and statewide development methodologies, standards, and policies.
• Identify and develop customer and technical support documentation for projects according to organization standards and best practices.
• Review project outputs for quality, consistency, and conformance to organization standards.
• Adhere to the bureau’s project management and application development methodologies for the creation of project management documents including project charters and plans, work breakdown structures, risk and communication plans and status reports.
• Provide communications between development teams, technical support, subject matter experts, stakeholders, management, and other agencies.
• Coordinate communication and project direction for the development team customers, technical support, management, and other agencies.
• Identify and document the significant software architecture aspects of the system including requirements, design, implementation, and deployment elements following standard practices.
• Ensure that the development and maintenance of data and information technology planning and that security (data and application) meets the legal requirements of federal, state and local law.