Project Manager - 26-16564

Title: Project Manager
Duration: 9-12 Months (No Benefits)
Location: Remote (some onsite in Jefferson City, MO)

Job Summary:
Named Project Manager and day-to-day point of contact for a data warehouse modernization program. Runs governance, schedule, reporting, change control, and deliverable acceptance across an integrated vendor and subcontractor team.

Responsibilities:

1. Build and own the project charter, WBS, integrated schedule, RAID log, and change-control plan across four phases: Mobilize, Design & Pilot, Build & Modernize, and Validate & Transition.
2. Produce weekly status reports (percent complete, items for management attention, action items, decisions, risks, out-of-scope work, change requests) and the monthly status report, which is the payment deliverable and is built from ADO work items, progress comments, and per-ticket time logs.
3. Prepare and walk stakeholders through each Project Deliverable Acceptance review. Track revisions through to approval and invoicing.
4. Run change control: log changes the day they are identified, prepare impact and fixed-cost assessments, and ensure no work starts before a signed modified SOW and an updated PO.
5. Coordinate the subcontract team (architect, mainframe lead, COBOL SME) and internal staff as one team. Manage the pilot go/no-go gate and the migration-wave plan.
6. Track throughput against migration volumes (tables, views, COBOL-to-SSIS conversions, JCL-to-SQL Server Agent jobs, and the ColdFusion-to-.NET rebuild). Escalate variances early.
7. Enforce ADO discipline: every work item, defect, and time entry recorded and traceable.
8. Manage client dependencies: system access (AD/VDI, SQL Server, TN3270), SME availability, test data, and back-end users’ cutover readiness.
9. Run cutover planning, go/no-go, hypercare, and closeout, including the holdback release.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of IT project management, including 5+ years on application or data modernization, migration, or data warehouse projects.
• State or local government IT project experience, including PMO governance, status templates, and acceptance processes.
• Waterfall, scrum, and agile delivery (hybrid phase-gated plans with sprint-based build waves).
• Azure DevOps (or JIRA) for planning, tracking, and reporting.
• Experience managing multi-vendor or subcontractor teams on fixed-price, deliverable-based contracts.
• Formal change control, risk management, and budget/burn tracking.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP (or PMI-ACP / PRINCE2).
• Financial, HR, or payroll ERP projects (CGI Advantage, PeopleSoft, Workday, Oracle) in the public sector.
• Mainframe-to-SQL Server or .NET modernization programs.