Senior IT Project Manager Application Rationalization & Salesforce Transition

Company Description 
Lumen Solutions Group Inc. is a technology consulting Services company based in Florida. We provide a wide array of experienced business and IT professionals supporting clients from solution design to implementation and support. We specialize in professional IT consulting services, IT Staffing, Business/IT Strategy, Business Process Blueprints, Enterprise Architecture, and Enterprise Transformation. 
 

Job Role: Senior IT Project Manager – Application Rationalization & Salesforce Transition
Job Location: Washington, DC (Remote - Quarterly travel required for PI Planning (Washington, D.C. or Wilmington, DE)
Job Type: Contract
 
JOB SUMMARY
 
Position Summary
Our client is seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager to lead a complex, multi-year application rationalization and modernization program involving three existing Salesforce applications: SPARTN, Watch List, and DAG.
The selected candidate will lead the initiatives from current-state assessment and requirements gathering through platform evaluation, solution selection, implementation, data migration, testing, deployment, and transition to operations. This role requires strong project leadership, Salesforce knowledge, financial management, cross-functional coordination, and executive-level communication skills.
 
Key Responsibilities
Program & Project Leadership

• Lead application rationalization initiatives for SPARTN, Watch List, and DAG from requirements definition through platform selection, implementation, migration, deployment, and operational transition.
• Manage multiple related projects, applications, and workstreams concurrently within a multi-year program.
• Develop and maintain an integrated roadmap covering requirements, solution evaluation, procurement, implementation, data migration, integrations, testing, security, training, deployment, and operational transition.
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, milestones, risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, resources, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Develop mitigation and recovery plans for scope, schedule, budget, resource, vendor, and technical risks.
• Proactively identify issues, challenge assumptions, drive decisions, and ensure action items are completed.

 
Application Rationalization & Salesforce Transition

• Assess existing Salesforce applications and document functionality, integrations, data, workflows, reporting, security, user groups, and operational dependencies.
• Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions with business, operational, technical, and safety stakeholders.
• Identify capabilities to retain, improve, replace, consolidate, or retire.
• Partner with Architecture and Digital Technology teams to evaluate internal platforms and commercial replacement solutions.
• Coordinate solution and vendor evaluations based on functional fit, technical compatibility, cybersecurity, integrations, scalability, supportability, implementation complexity, cost, and long-term value.
• Ensure future-state solutions address data migration, data quality, retention, integrations, security, testing, reporting, user adoption, cutover, and legacy-system retirement.
• Maintain traceability from current-state functionality and approved requirements through design, development, testing, and implementation.

 
Cross-Functional Technology Coordination

• Lead and coordinate Salesforce architects, enterprise architects, developers, cybersecurity teams, business analysts, data/integration specialists, quality-control teams, technical leads, and third-party vendors.
• Translate business and operational needs into defined technical workstreams and measurable deliverables.
• Manage dependencies and communication across the Digital Technology organization.
• Establish clear accountability for decisions, action items, deliverables, approvals, risks, and handoffs.
• Ensure technical teams and vendors remain aligned with approved scope, priorities, timelines, budgets, and architectural standards.
• Communicate technical issues and solution options effectively to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

 
Project Governance & Documentation

• Develop and maintain project documentation and governance artifacts required by formal system-development and project-delivery methodologies.
• Prepare projects for formal reviews, approvals, and quality gates.
• Ensure PMO processes, documentation standards, and reporting requirements are followed.
• Maintain detailed project plans, status reports, risk and issue logs, decision logs, action-item trackers, dependency logs, financial reports, and executive dashboards.
• Escalate material risks, financial variances, resource constraints, technical concerns, and leadership decisions as appropriate.

 
Financial Management

• Develop and maintain detailed project financial forecasts covering internal/external labor, vendors, software licensing, infrastructure, platform acquisition, implementation costs, and other project expenses.
• Manage monthly and quarterly actuals, commitments, invoices, accruals, forecast updates, and budget variances.
• Maintain monthly financial forecast accuracy within approximately ±5%.
• Calculate and explain actual-to-forecast and forecast-to-budget variances.
• Ensure project financial information is accurate, current, documented, and aligned with delivery plans.
• Provide financial reporting to Safety & Security leadership, Digital Technology executives, Finance, Enterprise PMO, and the Value Management Office.

 
Stakeholder Communication & Reporting

• Provide weekly and monthly project status reports, dashboards, executive summaries, financial updates, risk reports, and decision requests.
• Communicate effectively with technical teams, operational users, vendors, PMO leadership, Finance, the Value Management Office, and senior executives.
• Facilitate requirements workshops, technical discussions, vendor sessions, governance reviews, and executive briefings.
• Present complex technical, financial, and delivery information clearly and in a decision-oriented manner.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships through transparency, responsiveness, preparation, and consistent follow-through.

 
Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• PMP certification.
• 10+ years of progressive IT project management experience.
• Proven experience leading complex enterprise application development, modernization, migration, replacement, or rationalization initiatives.
• Direct experience managing Salesforce projects with a strong understanding of the Salesforce application environment.
• Sufficient functional and technical Salesforce knowledge to effectively direct architects, developers, integration teams, data-migration teams, cybersecurity professionals, and vendors.
• Experience managing the complete application-rationalization lifecycle, including:
  • Current-state assessment
  • Requirements gathering
  • Platform evaluation
  • Solution selection
  • Data migration
  • Integrations
  • Testing
  • Deployment
  • User adoption
  • Legacy-system retirement

• Experience managing multiple applications, projects, or workstreams simultaneously.
• Experience working within formal system-development and project-governance methodologies involving documentation, approvals, executive reporting, and quality gates.
• Strong project financial-management experience, including forecasting, actuals, accruals, variance analysis, vendor costs, and budget reporting.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams spanning Architecture, Cybersecurity, Development, Quality Control, business operations, vendors, and executive leadership.

 
Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading a Salesforce-to-non-Salesforce platform transition.
• Experience evaluating internal platforms and commercial software products as replacement solutions.
• Experience managing large, multi-application, multi-year modernization or rationalization programs.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce data models, integrations, workflows, reporting, security, environments, and migration considerations.
• Experience developing RFIs, RFPs, vendor-evaluation criteria, scoring models, business cases, or total-cost-of-ownership analyses.

 
Lumen Solutions Group Inc is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any legally protected status.