Project Manager

Soft Tech Consulting is seeking a highly motivated Project Manager to support USDA Farm Service Agency Cotton Management Systems modernization and related initiatives. The role leads Agile IT software development projects, coordinates technical teams and stakeholders, manages schedules, risks, costs, and performance, and ensures compliance with client standards and SDLC requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage multiple complex IT projects and interrelated work streams using Agile project management methodologies and PMI best practices
• Develop, maintain, and monitor integrated program and project management plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, assumptions, and resource assignments
• Provide overall project governance, oversight, and reporting to Government stakeholders, including status reporting, risk assessments, corrective action recommendations, and executive briefings
• Maintain project schedules in Microsoft Project and ensure weekly updates reflecting work progress, milestones, resource utilization, and budget status
• Manage project financial performance, including cost and schedule management, Earned Value Management (EVM), invoice support, and reporting requirements
• Coordinate contractor personnel, technical leads, architects, developers, testers, and stakeholders to ensure successful project execution
• Facilitate requirements definition, requirements analysis, impact assessments, design reviews, sprint planning, backlog management, and release planning activities
• Identify, track, mitigate, and communicate project risks, issues, dependencies, and schedule impacts
• Ensure compliance with clients security, accessibility, quality assurance, and change management requirements
• Support development, modernization, enhancement, production support, disaster recovery, application authorization, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Coordinate communication among Government leadership, technical teams, business stakeholders, external partners, and subcontractors as applicable
• Ensure timely delivery of project deliverables, documentation, reports, presentations, and work products
• Defined software architecture and produced technical documentation for other developers to follow
• Designed database structures required to implement software requirements
• Developed J2EE web applications utilizing Java and technologies
• Coded JSP’s, controller classes, business services, data access objects, and comprehensive unit tests
• Conducted code reviews with other team members to ensure code was of high-quality, properly documented, and appropriate re-use of common (shared) code

Requirements:

• UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED
• PUBLIC TRUST ELIGIBILITY
• OFF-SITE/REMOTE (MUST LIVE NEAR KANSAS CITY, MO AND OR WASHINGTON, DC AREA)
• PART TIME POSITION (20 HOURS/WEEK)
• • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, Project Management, or related field
• • 7+ years of experience leading large-scale IT software development or application modernization projects
• • Demonstrated experience managing Agile software development projects and cross-functional technical teams
• • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification required
• • Strong knowledge of PMI PMBOK practices, Agile methodologies, Scrum, project lifecycle management, and Earned Value Management (EVM)
• • Experience developing and maintaining detailed project schedules using Microsoft Project
• • Knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC), system implementation, quality assurance, testing, deployment, and production support processes
• • Understanding of cloud-based environments such as AWS and enterprise application development environments
• • Experience preparing executive presentations, status reports, risk assessments, project plans, and governance documentation
• • Strong communication, stakeholder management, leadership, problem-solving, and organizational skills
• • Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a dynamic, mission-critical environment
• • Experience supporting Federal Government, or other public-sector IT programs preferred
• AWS, Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, SQL Server, Agile Scrum, software modernization programs, Federal compliance frameworks, risk management, and executive stakeholder engagement