Project Manager- Senior

Job Description:

seeks a Delivery & Implementation Manager to serve as the daily operational driver of the implementation ensuring forward momentum, clarity, and coordination across internal teams and our implementation vendor.

undertaking a fastmoving, large-scale modernization effort. We are seeking a Delivery & Implementation Manager to serve as the daily operational driver of the implementation ensuring forward momentum, clarity, and coordination across internal teams and our implementation vendor.

This is not an administrative tracking role; it is a hands-on delivery leadership role responsible for anticipating issues, removing blockers, creating structure in ambiguity, and maintaining progress across all workstreams.

As the DMV transitions toward a product-oriented operating model over the next 18 months, this role will help build the foundation of effective delivery routines, cross-team integration, and vendor accountability that will enable long-term success. The Delivery & Implementation Manager works closely with the Program Manager, Business Analyst, SMEs, IT, business units, and vendor partners.

This position serves as the operational heartbeat of modernization ensuring day-to-day execution, alignment, and problem-solving across the entire implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Drives the day-to-day execution of modernization work by ensuring all internal teams and vendors have what they need to maintain continuous forward progress toward milestones
• Translates high-level program goals into coordinated, sequenced, and actionable delivery activities across workstreams including Development, Testing, Data, OCM/Training, IT, and business units
• Serves as a key integrator across workstreams by identifying cross team dependencies, coordinating required actions, and ensuring consistent alignment across internal and vendor teams
• Maintains and communicates dependency maps or logs to support cross-team alignment.
• Partners closely with the Business Analyst to ensure incoming work is clear, actionable, and ready for delivery; partners with the Program Manager to ensure execution aligns with program strategy and priorities
• Collaborates with Product Owners and Business Analysts to refine scope, clarify requirements, and ensure delivery readiness.
• Leads and facilitates Agile or iterative delivery routines, ensuring ceremonies remain outcome oriented and that work is broken down into clear, manageable steps rather than vague tasks
• Maintains real-time visibility into delivery plans, risks, dependencies, and status; proactively identifies and resolves issues before they become blockers to progress
• Investigates issues end-to-end to determine root causes and drives resolution across teams, escalating only when necessary and always with recommended solutions
• Brings clarity to ambiguous areas by defining problems, coordinating decisions, and establishing the structure needed for continued forward movement
• Leads readiness and implementation activities including go-live planning, communications, training coordination, environment preparation, UAT coordination, go live execution, and stabilization.
• Coordinates daily with the implementation vendor to ensure alignment on deliverables, timelines, risks, and dependencies; works with the Vendor Manager to surface issues, monitor vendor commitments, and support accountability mechanisms
• Contributes to the delivery processes and routines that support DMV s transition to a future product operating model.
• Maintains updates in Azure DevOps (ADO) or related delivery tools to ensure clear visibility across workstreams.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience serving as a Delivery Lead, Implementation Manager, or Project/Program Manager supporting complex initiatives, system implementations, or modernization efforts
• Proven ability to drive outcomes across internal teams and vendors, maintaining daily forward momentum and ensuring workstreams stay aligned and on track
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to proactively identify issues, investigate root causes, and resolve blockers across teams before they escalate
• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations by simplifying complex work, defining needed decisions, and creating structured, actionable steps for delivery
• Demonstrated communication and influence skills, including the ability to coordinate across technical and business teams, vendor partners, SMEs, and leadership without direct authority
• Experience working in Agile, iterative, or hybrid delivery environments, including facilitating ceremonies and maintaining real-time plans, risks, and dependencies
• Ability to manage cross team dependencies, drive alignment across vendors and internal teams, and ensure all workstreams maintain progress toward shared outcomes
• Experience preparing for and supporting implementation and go live activities such as readiness planning, UAT coordination, communications, cutover, and stabilization efforts

Desired Attributes

• Proactively identifies problems early and takes full ownership for driving solutions across teams, without waiting for direction
• Thrives in complex, high ambiguity environments and brings structure, clarity, and order where processes are still forming
• Comfortable operating in evolving, squishy, non-fully defined environments while helping the organization mature toward more disciplined delivery practices
• Demonstrates a strong sense of accountability and maintains relentless focus on forward movement and delivery outcomes
• Builds strong working relationships across internal teams and vendors, driving alignment and coordination without relying on authority
• Creates clarity from complexity by simplifying work, defining needed decisions, and coordinating cross stream actions to maintain consistent progress
• Energized by helping establish the foundational delivery routines and operating model that will support DMV s future product-based structure
• Maintains a high ownership mindset with strong initiative, stepping in wherever needed to remove blockers, solve issues, and move work forward

Soft Skills

• Strong communication skills with the ability to create clarity, explain complexities, and coordinate effectively across business teams, technical teams, vendors, SMEs, and leadership without relying on authority
• Skilled in facilitating discussions, delivery ceremonies, and cross-team decision-making to ensure alignment, shared understanding, and continued progress across workstreams
• Highly proactive mindset with the ability to anticipate issues, take ownership, and address risks or blockers before they impact delivery momentum
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to investigate root causes, navigate ambiguity, and bring structure to evolving or unclear situations
• Ability to influence, build alignment, and drive collaboration across diverse internal teams and vendors in a forming, rapidly changing environment
• Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where priorities, needs, and expectations often evolve as modernization work progresses

Education

• Bachelor s degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience
• Relevant fields may include business, public administration, information systems, computer science, engineering, communications, or other related disciplines
• Certifications in Agile, Scrum, project delivery, or change management are helpful but not required