Project Manager

Aquinas Consulting is currently looking to fill a Project Manager/Coordinator job in Wethersfield, CT. This CONTRACT hire job is available with one of our key clients in the public sector. In this role, you will help coordinate project execution, facilitate technical discussions, and support delivery activities across multiple workstreams while ensuring projects remain on schedule. To be successful in this position, you should have experience managing technology projects involving system modernization, legacy applications, or cloud migration initiatives. Preference will be given to professionals with strong JIRA experience and previous work supporting government agencies or large public sector organizations.

Project Manager/Coordinator Job Responsibilities:

• Support the day-to-day execution of one or more mainframe modernization projects by coordinating tasks, tracking milestones, monitoring risks, and maintaining project documentation.
• Facilitate technical discussions with internal teams, vendors, and stakeholders to document decisions, dependencies, action items, and project deliverables related to legacy system modernization.
• Manage and maintain JIRA epics, stories, and tasks, ensuring alignment with project plans, vendor milestones, priorities, and execution schedules.
• Review project schedules in Microsoft Project, monitor dependencies and critical milestones, maintain rolling execution plans, and identify potential schedule risks.
• Support change management activities, testing readiness, and large-scale system testing by coordinating stakeholder communications, tracking readiness activities, and assisting with issue resolution.
• Track project risks, issues, and cross-functional dependencies while escalating concerns and recommending solutions to keep projects on schedule.
• Coordinate vendor meetings, working sessions, and project status updates while ensuring action items are completed and documentation remains current.
• Collaborate with technical, business, and project teams to support cloud migration activities, infrastructure changes, and enterprise application modernization initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Seven plus years of project management or project coordination experience supporting system modernization, application migration, or technology transformation projects.
• Strong proficiency with JIRA, including backlog management, work tracking, reporting, and workflow coordination.
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project delivery methodologies, along with a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience supporting cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, or enterprise technology initiatives is preferred.
• Previous experience working with government agencies or public sector organizations is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication, organization, documentation, and meeting facilitation skills.

If you are interested in this Project Manager/Coordinator job in Wethersfield, CT, please apply now to be connected with a member of our team.

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Aquinas Consulting is a woman and minority owned company headquartered in Milford, CT that provides Engineering, Information Technology (IT), and Manufacturing staffing solutions throughout the US. We take pride in 20 years of service to our clients, our hiring managers, our consultants, and our local community.  Aquinas is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and committed to considering all qualified applications without regard to race, genetic information, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. www.aquinasconsulting.com