Company Description

Krasan Consulting Services is a Chicago boutique management consulting and technology solutions integrator. As a certified BEP WBE with the State of Illinois and a certified WBE, MBE, and DBE recognized by the City of Chicago, Krasan provides complex technology solutions and services for clients in the Public and Commercial sectors. With decades of experience, Krasan specializes in end-to-end technology solutions, integration, and implementation services and is proud to enable the success of our customers.

Job Title: Senior Project Manager - Senior [Delivery Lead]

Work Location: Remote

Client/Agency: Department of Economic and Commerce

Project Name: DCEO Work Bid System

Position Overview:

The Senior IT Project Manager will provide overall project leadership, coordination, governance, and stakeholder management for an enterprise technology initiative involving the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), the Illinois Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO), and external vendor teams. The role will support the structured evaluation of Microsoft Power Platform and .NET solution approaches, coordinate cross-platform prototype development and testing, manage project timelines and dependencies, facilitate decision-making, and ensure project activities remain aligned with approved schedules, governance expectations, and agency objectives. The ideal candidate will have strong enterprise IT project management experience, excellent stakeholder and executive communication skills, and sufficient technical understanding of Microsoft Power Platform, .NET, application development, testing, and solution evaluation to effectively coordinate business, technical, and vendor teams. Primary Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

• Lead overall project coordination, planning, governance, and stakeholder management across DCEO, DoIT EPMO, agency leadership, business stakeholders, technical teams, and vendor partners.
• Facilitate Microsoft Power Platform and .NET platform evaluation sessions, technical discussions, stakeholder workshops, and decision-making processes to support informed solution recommendations.
• Manage project timelines for Microsoft Power Platform and .NET evaluations, ensuring appropriate coordination of milestones, dependencies, resource assignments, prototype activities, testing, decisions, and phase gates.
• Coordinate cross-platform prototype development and testing activities across business, technical, development, QA, architecture, and vendor teams.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive Integrated Project Plan that includes project milestones, dependencies, resource assignments, deliverables, decision points, and phase gates.
• Update the Integrated Project Plan weekly and ensure alignment with Gantt timelines established in the Compliance Workflow workbook.
• Monitor project progress against approved schedules and proactively identify schedule risks, dependencies, delays, or resource constraints that may affect project delivery.
• Prepare and present weekly Executive Status Reports and dashboards summarizing project progress, milestone status, key accomplishments, risks, issues, decisions required, dependencies, and budget burn.
• Tailor executive reporting for the CIO, Director’s Office, agency sponsors, EPMO leadership, and other designated stakeholders.
• Maintain a live Risk & Issue Log covering technical, operational, and stakeholder risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle.
• Document mitigation actions, assigned owners, escalation requirements, target resolution timelines, and current status for identified risks and issues.
• Proactively facilitate risk and issue resolution and ensure items requiring executive or governance-level decisions are escalated appropriately.
• Develop and maintain a Stakeholder Communication Matrix defining who requires project information, what information is required, when communication should occur, and the appropriate communication method.
• Coordinate stakeholder communication through appropriate channels, including email, meetings, dashboards, status reports, and project governance forums.
• Define and maintain clear escalation paths, stakeholder responsibilities, and decision authority levels.
• Facilitate project governance meetings, technical evaluation sessions, status reviews, risk and issue discussions, decision meetings, and cross-functional coordination sessions.
• Ensure key decisions, action items, dependencies, risks, issues, and approvals are documented and tracked through completion.
• Coordinate project resources across DCEO, DoIT EPMO, technical teams, business teams, vendors, and other project stakeholders to support completion of planned activities and deliverables.
• Monitor budget burn and provide timely visibility into project financial status as part of weekly executive reporting.
• Coordinate project phase closure and transition activities for MVP, workflows, reporting, and rollout phases.
• Prepare formal Phase Closure & Transition Reports documenting completed deliverables, outstanding items, lessons learned, readiness checklists, transition requirements, and support handoff plans.
• Ensure phase closure activities include appropriate readiness validation, stakeholder acceptance, documentation completion, and transition to operational or support teams.

Qualifications & Technical Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Business Administration, Project Management, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible IT project management experience supporting enterprise technology, application development, modernization, platform evaluation, or implementation initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional projects involving business teams, technical teams, vendors, executive stakeholders, and multiple organizational groups.
• Experience leading or coordinating technology evaluation, platform assessment, prototype, proof-of-concept, or solution selection initiatives.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform technologies, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Dataverse, Power BI, platform environments, and enterprise workflow solutions.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft .NET technologies and enterprise application development concepts, including .NET/.NET Core, C#, ASP.NET, Web APIs, and application integrations.
• General understanding of application architecture, system integrations, data flows, security considerations, testing, deployment, and enterprise solution delivery.
• Experience coordinating prototype development and testing activities, including functional validation, integration testing, system testing, user acceptance testing, defect tracking, and readiness assessment.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle methodologies and experience supporting Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project delivery approaches.
• Experience developing and maintaining project plans, Gantt schedules, milestone tracking, dependency management, resource assignments, risks and issue logs, executive dashboards, and status reports.
• Experience working with project management and delivery tools such as Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, Smartsheet, or comparable platforms.
• Demonstrated experience with stakeholder management, executive communication, governance reporting, escalation management, and cross-functional coordination.
• Strong ability to facilitate meetings, technical discussions, decision sessions, status reviews, risk reviews, and stakeholder workshops.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, organizational, analytical, facilitation, problem-solving, and presentation skills.
• Ability to translate technical and project information into clear executive-level status reporting and decision-oriented communications.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, or comparable project management or Agile certification is preferred.
• Microsoft Power Platform certification or related Microsoft technical certification is preferred.
• Experience working in a government, public-sector, EPMO, or similarly governed enterprise environment is preferred.

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