IT Project Manager Senior , Perm in Albuquerque or Santa Fe, NM

IT Project Manager Senior #, Perm, Full-Time, in Albuquerque or Santa Fe, NM

# of Positions: 1

Opening Date: 10-15-2026
- Close Date: --

Target Pay Range/Rate: $42.225 - $52.781 per hour or $87,828 - $109,784 annual salary

The Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) is recruiting for a full-time, classified, IT Project Manager Senior position # for the Judicial Information Division in Albuquerque or Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Acting under general direction, plan and oversee all aspects of assigned information technology (IT) projects. Bring your expertise managing IT projects to the dedicated employees of the New Mexico Judiciary! Help solve business problems by leading project stakeholders to IT solutions that help deliver Justice for New Mexicans. Working as part of the dynamic IT Project Management team, the senior IT project manager will oversee all phases of the project lifecycle, ensuring successful outcomes that provide business value to the Judiciary and New Mexican citizens.

Finalist(s) may be subject to criminal background checks.

• The IT Project Manager Senior is responsible for organizing, identifying and documenting tasks to be completed using project management tools.
• Establishes time lines, processes, procedures, and short and long-term goals to be achieved for a specific project.
• Researches, identifies, tests and implements appropriate hardware, software, services, materials and information required for projects.
• Presents and implements project time lines, proposals, protocols and standards for approval.
• Researches and provides input on costs for hardware, software, and services costs; prepares relevant documentation, which could include providing input for contracts.
• May research, provide input on, or monitor recurring and non-recurring costs.
  
  Promotes projects with Information Technology staff, judicial entities, legislature, vendors and other entities involved with projects.
• Researches, develops, communicates and maintains technical guidelines for computer hardware, software, and services.
• May provide input on the development of contracts, Memorandums of Understanding, Memorandums of Agreement, and Requests for Proposals.
• Develops and presents upon project’s strategic plans and assesses project’s risk management issues.
• Complies with established security measures.
• Develops, implements and presents training programs related to projects, new business processes, or new software functionality.
• May attend conferences tied to projects and presents project data and position papers to various groups.
• Provide professional customer service and assistance to internal and external users.
• Assure appropriate access to information and restrict access to sensitive information.
• Assesses, develops, trains, and oversees the ongoing maintenance of newly acquired and established software programs.
• Manage vendor relationships and serve as a lead point of contact for the vendor and the judiciary.
• Manages court relationships by performing research of court business processes, understanding each court’s business process workflows, and developing requirements.
• Provides documentation of business requirements and court business process workflows for IT staff.
• Serves on committees as subject matter experts for advisory committees.
• Understands the user acceptance testing framework and develops an end-to-end process including test scripts, instructions, training testers, issue management, regression testing, and final acceptance.
• Utilizes and comprehends technical manuals, and is able to translate into a user friendly format for end users.
• Mentors and trains co-workers on overall project management practices.
• Other duties as assigned.

The successful applicant should demonstrate knowledge of project evaluation, reporting and tracking methods; adult teaching techniques; technical understanding of application design, program development, system servers and platforms, database administration, network configuration, management and diagram development, telecommunications, systems management, client administration, application analysis and development and applications life cycles; vendors, equipment type, contract development security compliance; data reporting standards; research methodologies; funding guidelines;

IT trends, techniques;
Requests for Proposal (RFP); document development; and IT development standards.

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