Review Vacancy
AgencyInformation Technology Services, Office of
TitleProject Coordinator (Ref #13784)
Occupational CategoryAdministrative or General Management
Bargaining UnitPS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)
Salary RangeFrom $98160 to $120219 Annually
Minimum Qualifications Fifteen years of professional work-related experience in Information Technology that includes service/product delivery and support. At least five years of this experience must have been at a supervisory level, or include at least three years of managerial experience.
The following degrees, in Computer Science or related field, may substitute for the general experience as indicated:
• Bachelor’s degree and fifteen years of experience
• Master’s degree and ten years of experience
• PhD and seven years of experience
Preferred qualifications:
• Project Management
• Product developer and/or manager supporting Middleware,
Identity or Database platforms
• Release and Deployment Management
Duties Description This candidate will be responsible for coordinating with the Chief Operations Office (COO) and the Chief Technology Office (CTO) to establish written procedures and practices encompassing all phases of a transition to production process to assure a smooth transition of projects to production. The candidate will drive meetings to ensure procedures and essential steps are established and outlined from the pre-production stage (including Scalable Processor Architecture (SPARC) checklist) to the delivery of the final product/service to the stakeholder. The SPARC checklist is to be filled in by project teams and identifies any gaps in production readiness. This training on use of this checklist list of gaps/risks is important as it will be used to determine whether or not technologies or applications are ready to move to production. Upon completion of the procedures, key steps and training, the incumbent will proceed into the physical action of a transition to production on a “live” project utilizing the established procedures and key steps to ensure what has been developed is working efficiently in the ITS environment. The incumbent will then appropriately address any corrective actions that may have been identified during this process. Specific duties include:
• Drives regular meetings to review project readiness using the SPARC checklist to specify release objectives, roles, responsibilities; tasks, activities and deliverables, communication and training plans; and release schedule;
• Review the change request with stakeholders to ensure full understanding of the nature/magnitude of the change and which components and services need to be changed in order to implement it;
• Assists with Project Assessment to Identify Long Lead Time items. This involves those components of a system or piece of equipment for which the time to design fabricate are the longest and for which an early commitment of funds may be desirable or necessary in order to meet the earliest possible date of system completion;
• Decide how to release those changes into production e.g. it may be appropriate to treat the change request as a simple single-release project, with its own project plan and allocated resources or it may be beneficial to combine the changes from one or more change requests to form a more complex release package especially if the change requests make different changes to the same production components and services. Making changes in this manner can often help reduce downtime and improve the use of resources available to the release manager;
• Assists with Project Assessment to Identify Long Lead Time items. This involves those components of a system or piece of equipment for which the time to design fabricate are the longest and for which an early commitment of funds may be desirable or necessary in order to meet the earliest possible date of system completion;
• Responsible for maintaining the SPARC checklist for projects;
• Works with Operations teams to identify technical leads to review project production requirements, participate in project execution as necessary to assume production support, and identifies any operational requirements or budgetary needs for successful production activities;
• Assures that COO Resources are assigned for Project executables, as needed;
• Plan and coordinate the resources to deploy a major Release within the predicted cost, time and quality estimates;
• Assure completion of COO tasks per project plan;
• Leads the reviews of 30/60/90 day list with Operations teams;
• Identifies and describe the type of training/skills needed along with resources needs for production operations;
• Recommends Go-NoGo position to COO regarding production readiness and any risks associated with project;
• Plan, schedule and control the movement of releases to test and live environments. The primary goal of the incumbent is to ensure that the integrity of the live environment is protected and that the correct components are released;
• Coordinate the execution of test cases as specified in the release test plan e.g. for most releases, key functionality tests include proving the effectiveness of back-out and recovery procedures;
• Ensure that planned deployed Releases and the resulting services meet customer expectations, and to verify that IT operations is able to support the new service.
Additional Comments The position will require fingerprinting and background check.
Some positions may require additional credentials or a background check to verify your identity.
Email Address HR.recruitment@its.ny.gov
Address
Street Empire State Plaza, Swan Street Building, Core 4 P.O. Box 2062
Notes on ApplyingTo apply, please submit a resume and cover letter indicating that you are applying for Info Project Assistant Ref. #13784. Please clearly indicate how you meet the minimum qualifications for this position. Your Social Security number may be required to confirm your eligibility.