IT Senior Project Manager

As an IT Senior Project Manager, you will:  

• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle for complex technology projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope and budget, and meet business objectives.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including stakeholders, subject matter experts, IT analysts and developers, and vendors to ensure the success of a project.
   

Join our team
The City of Bellevue’s IT is comprised of 65 talented individuals partnering with 13 City departments that range from Police to Parks to the water utility. We are a full-service IT department responsible for the computers, applications, network, servers, telecommunications, and services critical to high-quality City operations and services. Learn more about us at Information Technology | City of Bellevue (bellevuewa.gov). Over the past 5 years, Bellevue has consistently ranked in the top 5 by the Center for Digital Government for similarly sized cities Bellevue Technology Awards | City of Bellevue (bellevuewa.gov).

Bellevue is a dynamic, international, and multicultural, future-focused Smart City serving 152,000 residents. Our Council vision is: “Bellevue welcomes the world, our diversity is our strength.” We value all employees and their contributions. The City invests in its employees and encourages and rewards employee growth and development by building on our commonalities and our differences. Bellevue is a high-tech hub, noted for its diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. We work collectively to make it a place where you want to work, live, and play.

Please note: This is a Washington State job, and candidates must reside within a reasonable distance of City Hall and be onsite in Bellevue at least one day per week. 

• Apply advanced project management concepts to plan, manage, and execute technology projects, from initiation to delivery, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Define project goals, scope, and deliverables, and create detailed project plans, timelines, and budgets.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand project requirements and ensure that project deliverables meet or exceed expectations.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration among cross-functional teams, including developers, quality assurance, business analysts, and stakeholders.
• Monitor project progress and report project status to stakeholders, including identifying and mitigating risks, and resolving project issues.
• Manage project resources, including assigning tasks, tracking progress, and ensuring that project deadlines are met.
• Ensure that project documentation is complete, accurate, and up to date including project plans, status reports, and project deliverables.
• Continuously improve project management processes and methodologies and promote best practices across the organization.
• Manage procurement activities including requests for proposals, vendor selection, contract negotiations, and vendor management.
• Ensure effective communications to end users and change management best practices.
• Set up and use effective project governance oversight to resolve issues, conflicts, and priorities that can block project success.

Knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies

• Proven experience as an IT Project Manager, with a track record of successfully delivering complex technology projects on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Strong project management skills, including experience with project planning, risk management, and project delivery.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and executives.
• Competence in project management tools and methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and Scrum.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks, and adapt to changing project requirements.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and mitigate project risks and issues.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and methodologies
• Effective negotiator and communicator.

Experience, education, and other requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience
• 4 or more years of experience as an IT Project Manager with increasing levels of complexity or projects
• Project Management certification preferred (e.g. PMP, ScrumMaster) 

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work involves walking, talking, hearing, using hands to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reaching with hands and arms.
• Vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet.