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Legislative Services Senior IT Project Manager
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Senior It Project Manager
The Office of Legislative Services (LSO) is a non-partisan office that provides internal support to the entire legislative branch. LSO provides support in various ways, including human resource functions, finance, IT services, printing, and more. As an internal support office, we look for individuals who embody a customer service mindset and demonstrate our values of Respect, Innovation, Service, and Excellence (RISE). Our LSO Software Development team is seeking to fill a senior IT project manager position. This non-partisan position will be located in the Senate Building and is exempt from executive branch merit service. The successful candidate will report to the LSO Deputy Director of IT Operations and will play a key role in working with stakeholders across the legislative branch to understand their application needs, establish project plans with definitive timelines and action items, and coordinate with our managing software engineers to ensure adherence to project plans and stakeholder satisfaction. Additionally, this position will manage our project management team, consisting of a project manager, a project coordinator, and a junior QA engineer. This position will monitor the performance of the project management team, provide mentorship, model and enhance internal commitment to customer service, among other duties. The incumbent for this position must reside in Utah and have the ability to report in-person to work. This position has remote work options, but the incumbent will have a set schedule of in-person and remote workdays. Remote work schedules are subject to change based on business needs. During the annual legislative general session, the incumbent will be required to be in-person (January through March). Responsibilities include: developing plans and tracking projects using project management tools, facilitating communication and collaboration and identifying ways to improve the efficiency of the development team, managing the development lifecycle from requirements through delivery, monitoring and reporting on team progress, managing tools to track stories and bugs to complete resolution, scheduling and conducting meetings such as sprint planning, stand-ups, retros, demos, and requirements gathering, documenting decisions and plans as they are made and following up with stakeholders to confirm understanding and track implementation, scheduling and facilitating meetings with stakeholders to present UAT testing documentation, gather feedback, and ensure alignment on testing objectives and outcomes, ensuring up-to-date status in software management tools and record of all relevant information, facilitating meetings which include stakeholders from multiple levels and functions, supervising project management team, duties to include: hiring, determining workload and delegating assignments, training, monitoring and evaluating performance, and initiating corrective or disciplinary actions, building and maintaining strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders across the six legislative staff offices, facilitating communication and collaboration between staff offices, ensuring the needs of each office are understood, considered, and addressed when delivering applications that impact multiple offices. Minimum qualifications include: bachelor's degree in a STEM field or equivalent experience, 5+ years of experience as an IT project manager, prior supervisory or management experience, experience with iterative and incremental development and agile methodologies, demonstrated ability to establish and foster effective working relationships with diverse stakeholder groups, including executive-level leaders and cross-functional teams, able to adapt previous experience and preferred methodologies to legislative offices' needs, knowledge of multiple agile approaches, like Kanban, SAFE, etc., ability to resolve conflict and manage expectations, strong knowledge of software development processes and procedures, comfortable with agile artifacts such as user stories, continuous integration, TDD, etc., ability to create objective metrics and make data-driven decisions, general understanding of web applications, back-end systems, and other technical concepts, must be able to work extended hours during the legislative session, on interim days, and as needed throughout the year, must be non-partisan. Preferred qualifications include: master's degree in a STEM field, PMP or similar certification, prior work experience in a professional government office environment, fluent understanding of the legislative process.
The Office of Legislative Services (LSO) is a non-partisan office that provides internal support to the entire legislative branch. LSO provides support in various ways, including human resource functions, finance, IT services, printing, and more. As an internal support office, we look for individuals who embody a customer service mindset and demonstrate our values of Respect, Innovation, Service, and Excellence (RISE). Our LSO Software Development team is seeking to fill a senior IT project manager position. This non-partisan position will be located in the Senate Building and is exempt from executive branch merit service. The successful candidate will report to the LSO Deputy Director of IT Operations and will play a key role in working with stakeholders across the legislative branch to understand their application needs, establish project plans with definitive timelines and action items, and coordinate with our managing software engineers to ensure adherence to project plans and stakeholder satisfaction. Additionally, this position will manage our project management team, consisting of a project manager, a project coordinator, and a junior QA engineer. This position will monitor the performance of the project management team, provide mentorship, model and enhance internal commitment to customer service, among other duties. The incumbent for this position must reside in Utah and have the ability to report in-person to work. This position has remote work options, but the incumbent will have a set schedule of in-person and remote workdays. Remote work schedules are subject to change based on business needs. During the annual legislative general session, the incumbent will be required to be in-person (January through March). Responsibilities include: developing plans and tracking projects using project management tools, facilitating communication and collaboration and identifying ways to improve the efficiency of the development team, managing the development lifecycle from requirements through delivery, monitoring and reporting on team progress, managing tools to track stories and bugs to complete resolution, scheduling and conducting meetings such as sprint planning, stand-ups, retros, demos, and requirements gathering, documenting decisions and plans as they are made and following up with stakeholders to confirm understanding and track implementation, scheduling and facilitating meetings with stakeholders to present UAT testing documentation, gather feedback, and ensure alignment on testing objectives and outcomes, ensuring up-to-date status in software management tools and record of all relevant information, facilitating meetings which include stakeholders from multiple levels and functions, supervising project management team, duties to include: hiring, determining workload and delegating assignments, training, monitoring and evaluating performance, and initiating corrective or disciplinary actions, building and maintaining strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders across the six legislative staff offices, facilitating communication and collaboration between staff offices, ensuring the needs of each office are understood, considered, and addressed when delivering applications that impact multiple offices. Minimum qualifications include: bachelor's degree in a STEM field or equivalent experience, 5+ years of experience as an IT project manager, prior supervisory or management experience, experience with iterative and incremental development and agile methodologies, demonstrated ability to establish and foster effective working relationships with diverse stakeholder groups, including executive-level leaders and cross-functional teams, able to adapt previous experience and preferred methodologies to legislative offices' needs, knowledge of multiple agile approaches, like Kanban, SAFE, etc., ability to resolve conflict and manage expectations, strong knowledge of software development processes and procedures, comfortable with agile artifacts such as user stories, continuous integration, TDD, etc., ability to create objective metrics and make data-driven decisions, general understanding of web applications, back-end systems, and other technical concepts, must be able to work extended hours during the legislative session, on interim days, and as needed throughout the year, must be non-partisan. Preferred qualifications include: master's degree in a STEM field, PMP or similar certification, prior work experience in a professional government office environment, fluent understanding of the legislative process.