Key Responsibilities   

Program Orchestration & Workflow:

• Workstream Coordination: Directs the daily activities of Business Analysts, Data Analysts, and Technical Analysts to ensure all project streams remain on schedule and within scope.
• Resource Allocation: Manages team assignments and task distribution to optimize productivity across multi-disciplinary technical and business workstreams.

Traditional Milestone & Deliverable Management:

• Project Scheduling: Develops and maintains detailed project schedules, tracking progress against critical path milestones and key deliverables.
• Stage-Gate Governance: Manages the transition between project phases (Initiation, Planning, Execution, and Closure), ensuring all requirements are met before proceeding to the next gate.
• Formal Reporting: Produces comprehensive status reports, including RAID logs (Risks, Actions, Issues, and Dependencies), for presentation to executive leadership.

Government & PMO Compliance:

• Regulatory Alignment: Ensures all project activities, reporting, and documentation meet the specific compliance and transparency standards required for government-facing projects.
• PMI Standard Execution: Operates as a subject matter expert on PMI best practices, enforcing standardized project management methodologies across the program.
• Requirements Traceability: Oversees the requirements repository (e.g., Jira/Confluence), maintaining a rigorous Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) that is audit-ready and linked to the program roadmap.

Stakeholder Management

• Strategic Liaison: Acts as the primary point of contact between technical teams and high-level business stakeholders, facilitating formal requirements & review meetings.
• Roadblock Escalation: Proactively identifies project bottlenecks and escalates critical risks to the API Technical Lead or senior program leadership.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Senior Consulting Leadership: 10+ years of experience leading high-stakes consulting programs and managing large-scale IT or data services projects.
• Professional Certification: Must be PMO or PMI (PMP) certified.
• Government Sector Expertise: Proven experience or deep functional knowledge of navigating government agencies or highly regulated public sector environments.
• Structured Project Management: Demonstrated ability to manage formal project lifecycles, Gantt charts, and complex dependency mapping.
• Team Leadership: Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams in a high-pressure, deliverable-based environment.
• PMO/PMI certified
• 10+ years managing consulting programs
• Government experience / knowledge
• Nice to have - finance transformation, billing, AR, collections knowledge

• Finance Transformation Knowledge: Experience in large-scale finance modernization initiatives, specifically regarding Billing, Accounts Receivable (AR), and Collections.
• Financial Services Background: Prior experience at the intersection of government regulation and financial data integrity.

About HDJ & Associates, Inc.

HDJ + Associates is consistently named one of the top recruiting firms in the Pittsburgh area. We are a professional employment and search solutions company focused on recruiting the best possible talent available in today’s demanding market place. Our clients often tell us that finding the right candidates to join their company is one of the most difficult tasks on their already overburdened task list. Likewise, our candidates often tell us that finding the right position in today’s crowded market place is frustrating and overwhelming. Let HDJ + Associates take the pressure out of the recruiting process for both candidates and employers. We will hit the employment bullseye each time streamlining the recruiting process to success.

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