Senior IT Project Manager - Legacy Modernization

We are seeking an experienced, analytical, and proactive Senior IT Project Manager to oversee a large-scale government agency legacy system modernization initiative. This role requires independent project oversight, strong technical understanding, vendor accountability, risk mitigation, and executive-level reporting.\n \n \nSenior IT Project Manager Responsibilities\n \n \n \n

• Oversee complex enterprise modernization projects, including legacy system replacement, application integration, and data migration. \n

• Independently assess project health, identify risks, analyze trends, and recommend corrective actions. \n

• Manage vendor performance against Statements of Work (SOWs), contractual deliverables, milestones, SLAs, and KPIs. \n

• Lead vendor discussions, challenge project updates, resolve escalations, and enforce accountability. \n

• Maintain project plans, risk and issue registers, dependency trackers, change control documentation, and governance reporting. \n

• Evaluate requirements traceability, deliverable acceptance criteria, and implementation readiness. \n

• Coordinate with technical teams, system integrators, business stakeholders, and executive leadership. \n

• Prepare accurate, insightful status reports and strategic recommendations for executive steering committees. \n

• Proven experience leading complex IT modernization or legacy system transformation projects. \n

• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, risk assessment, and independent decision-making skills. \n

• Strong vendor oversight experience, including SOW compliance, deliverable validation, and performance management. \n

• Ability to understand technical architectures, system integrations, data migration, and project dependencies. \n

• Experience with PMO governance, project planning, stakeholder management, and executive reporting. \n

• Demonstrated ability to proactively drive project outcomes with minimal supervision. \n

• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder engagement skills. \n, * Experience overseeing Salesforce implementations or enterprise CRM modernization. \n

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD processes. \n

• Experience with public-sector or government technology modernization initiatives. \n

• Proficiency with MS Project, SharePoint, Excel, and project performance dashboards. \n