IT Project Manager - Senior

Title: IT Project Manager - Senior

Location: Olympia, WA United States

Salary

$97,356.00 - $130,992.00 Annually

Job Type

Exempt

Remote Employment

Flexible/Hybrid

Job Number

2025-05958

Department

Office of Financial Management

Division

Information Technology Services

Job Description:

NOTE: This recruitment is open to internal OFM employees only.

Hybrid: Our physical office is in Olympia, WA. We offer flexible work schedules and locations. This is a hybrid position where most of the work allows teleworking. However, you must travel to in-person activities, meetings, and events according to business needs.

Why work for OFM

The Office of Financial Management (OFM) serves as the backbone of Washington state government. Our mission is to make our state a better place by connecting people, budgets, policies, data, and systems for state agencies and the Legislature. Our team includes budget advisors, researchers, and other experts, all dedicated public servants working towards an equitable future for every Washingtonian. If you want to play a key role in enhancing how state government serves its citizens, you've found the right place. Join us in making a meaningful difference for every Washingtonian!

The job opportunity

We are seeking an experienced senior IT Project Manager to play a key role in preparing OFM to implement One Washington, the new statewide enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. In this position, you will lead projects directly impacting how state agencies, higher education institutions, the Legislature, and the Governor's Office manage interconnected enterprise applications. You will oversee multiple projects and sub-projects that support the transition from legacy systems to the new ERP. Success will require strong technical and project management skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders-each with their own priorities and needs. You will help shape the future of statewide business processes by aligning technology solutions with organizational goals, developing project schedules and work plans, and implementing complex enterprise changes. This is an exciting opportunity to make a lasting impact on Washington State's operations while guiding one of the most significant technology transformations in state government.

What you will work on

• Lead, plan, and control multiple projects and sub-projects for implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application for OFM.?

• Identify and manage impacts to Legacy applications as the ERP is rolled out in phases by creating several sub-projects and working with diverse business lines, technologies, and teams.

• Manage change, risk, and quality management processes throughout the project's lifecycle, including identifying and escalating risks to the OneWa team when appropriate.

• Coach and mentor agile teams to ensure projects deliver the desired outcomes and benefits.

• Provide project management services such as status, projection, and budget/spend reporting, total cost of ownership assessment, leading meetings, driving projects/tasks to completion, tying actions to metrics such as hours, project goals, and organizational strategy, managing governance and gateways, and accepting responsibility for project teams' performance.

• Provide leadership, consultation, and oversight to the project team members and stakeholders throughout the project.

• Develop all the required project documentation, including but not limited to plans to manage the project integration, scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communications, risk, procurement, change, and stakeholders.

• Identify the needed resources (contractors, staff, and technology) and work with resource managers to assemble project teams.

• Assign project team members' responsibilities and tasks, set project performance expectations, and create accountability within the team to the project and each other.

What we need you to bring

Required Qualifications:

Project Management (PMI Standards)

• Expertise in managing full project life cycle: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/controlling, and closeout.

Agile Project Management / Agile Coaching

• Practical experience in Agile delivery frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, etc.).
• Strong skills in applying Agile principles to large, complex projects.

ERP Implementation & IT Systems Integration Experience

• Understanding of business processes impacted by ERP: HR, finance, procurement, etc.
• Familiarity with data conversion, system integration, legacy system decommissioning, and phased rollouts.

Strategic Thinking and Problem Solving

• Ability to manage large-scale, high-impact, multi-agency projects.
• Strong judgment in resolving complex interdependencies and conflicts.

Interpersonal & Leadership Competencies

• Excellent relationship-building skills across executives, technical staff, and end users.
• Experience managing stakeholder expectations, developing communications strategies, and providing organizational change support.
• Ability to lead cross-functional, matrixed teams from multiple agencies and divisions.
• Coaching, mentoring, and fostering collaboration among diverse teams.

Governance and Compliance

• Ability to coordinate with oversight bodies like the WaTech.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, public administration, business management, project management, or related field or discipline.
• Senior-level experience successfully managing a range of medium-to-large information technology projects with increasing complexity.
• Project Management Professional Certification or formal Project Management coursework.

What we offer:

At OFM, we foster a culture of integrity, innovation, inclusion, and belonging. We value learned and lived experiences, believing diversity strengthens us. To support your health and well-being, we offer a variety of benefit programs for our employees. 

Please visit our Recruitment Page for a full list of benefits available to employees. Here's a quick glance at some of the unique benefits that OFM offers:

• An environment of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging 
• Tuition reimbursement 
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
• 12 paid holidays, 14 paid vacation days (minimum), and 12 days of sick leave per year
• State retirement programs