VDOT Data Project Manager PMP 2 ROLES

Job#: 2003977

Job Description:

Data Project Manager
Location: Richmond, VA (majority remote)
All interested and qualified candidates can please contact Schuyler Moose at [email protected] 
Responsibilities:

• Serve as a hands-on technical project manager with development staff and business groups while managing the design development and implementation of the cloud-based data management platform.

• Coordinate and communicate with ITD management and staff to coordinate work tasks and resourcing.
• Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand project requirements and support data management needs.
• Ensure data is collected stored and processed securely and in compliance with all applicable regulations.
• Manage and maintain the cloud infrastructure and software systems.
• Ensure the platform is reliable scalable and secure.
• Analyze data and provide insights to support decision-making by project management teams.
• Provide training and support for end-users to ensure the platform is used effectively.
• Demonstrable capability and experience in planning implementing and maintenance of local master data systems and processes across business units and functions.
• Understanding of data and leveraging it to deliver business value. Data analysis skills and the ability to discuss requirements with data teams
• Experience in data governance concepts and data governance implementations.
• Ability to use agile approach and methodology to drive master data governance processes.
• Adhere to VDOT and VITA project management practices and governance requirements coordinate with VDOT and VITA Project Management Offices.
• Maintain project budget plans tasks schedules risks and status and disseminates information to team members and customers as defined in the communications plan.
• Ensure documentation of requirements and uses cases facilitate design workshops for assigned project.
• Ensure definition of test objectives designed test plans and test cases for assigned project.
• Provide the management of project milestones and deliverables for on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Define measure and clearly communicate progress with metrics.
• Support system and application training efforts.

• The candidate must have a minimum of 8 years’ experience managing large projects and a bachelors degree.
• Experience managing cloud-based solutions for data management and analytics.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and software systems including Azure and Google Cloud.
• Experience with data processing and storage tools e.g. Spark Azure Data Factory Azure Data Lake Storage Azure Event Hub Azure SQL Synapse.
• Excellent analytical problem-solving and communication skills.
• Knowledge of transportation data and project management with transportation data is a plus.
• Experience in IT Infrastructure delivery networking physical plant vendor management site provisioning is preferred.
• Experience managing large multi-stream projects.
• PMP or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards for IT Project Managers for Category 4 Projects. See: http://www.vita.virginia.gov/oversight/projects/default.aspx?id=589
• Microsoft Office products Word Excel Access Outlook Visio PowerPoint Project Server

• Technical Business Analyst understanding of data integration and data project
• Experience in the roll-out and adoption of governance tools such as Alation Collibra Informatica or Microsoft Purview.
• Comfortable in writing queries SQL Python R Scala as needed and experience with various data technologies such as Erwin Azure Synapse or SQL Server Snowflake Databricks
• Experienced in working through a data strategy that is migrating from on prem to a cloud driven approach

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