Job Title (Date): Application Development Project Manager (June 2025)
Department:
Information Technology
Employee Type:
Full-time
Reports to: Assistant Director – Application Development
FLSA Status:
Exempt
Travel Required:
None
Supervisory Responsibility:
None
Salary Range: $84,398 - $126,598
Posting Period:
June 25, 2025 – July 9, 2025
*Typically, initial wage is set between the minimum and the midpoint of the salary range depending on the employee’s qualifications and experience.
Summary of Responsibilities:
The Application Development Project Manager is responsible for leading the planning, execution, and delivery of software development projects. The Project Manager effectively manages timelines, budgets, scope, and project resources while fostering collaboration across SERS and ensuring that deliverables are aligned with the strategic goals of IT.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with IT Leadership, stakeholders, product owners, application architects, and IT infrastructure team to define, plan, and manage end-to-end application development initiatives, ensuring alignment with technology roadmap goals, established time frame, and budget.
- Apply industry standard project management methodology, standards & best practices to drive project results including change management, ownership of documentation, communication plans and process training.
- Collaborate with the IT Technical Project Manager of Infrastructure to drive consistency in project management discipline across the department.
- Manage Development Technology Roadmap Project’s backlog by proactively engaging Product Owner, business partners and jointly identifying business justification, priority, estimates, and schedule. Actively engage development managers to identify optimum delivery model for all technology roadmap projects.
- Define, track and report project scope, objectives, deliverables, and success metrics in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Develop comprehensive project plans, timelines, and resource allocation strategies by collaborating with the IT development leadership
- Facilitate effective communication across cross-functional teams, including Business Analyst, Developers, QA, and business stakeholders. Regularly meets with product owners, and development leadership to determine progress and address questions and challenges.
- Identify potential risks, dependencies, and obstacles, implementing proactive mitigation strategies.
- Participate in software quality assurance activities to identify bugs, usability issues, and ensure that the pension application meets release quality, reliability, and user satisfaction, as needed.
- Manage project budgets, partners with finance team on tracking expenses and variance reporting.
- Research and apply Generative AI (GenAI) techniques to greatly improve outcome and quality of the enterprise-wide projects.
- Ensure adherence to the development best practices, security protocols, and quality standards.
- Drive continuous improvement by implementing root cause analysis, lessons learned and optimizing project delivery processes.
- Provides reports to IT leadership regarding ongoing projects.
- Effectively communicate project issues and resolve problems/conflicts at all levels of the organization both internally and externally.
- Ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and security of all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI) data by strictly adhering to federal and state laws, regulations, polices, and best practices for data protection and access control.
- Other responsibilities as assigned.
Educations and Skills/Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or G.E.D.;
- Project Management Professional designation, preferred, with
- Proven experience managing application development projects using Agile, Scrum, or other relevant methodologies.
- 7+ years of Development Project Manager experience with gradually increasing responsibilities and a demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, artifacts, and tools.
- Strong leadership skills with a focus on fostering collaboration, accountability, and trust.
- Ability to build and maintain ongoing, collaborative, working relationships with coworkers to achieve the goals
- Demonstrated strong attention to detail skills
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Equivalent combination of education, skills, and experience
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Competencies:
Focus on Service - Employee demonstrates dedication to delivering service that meets or exceeds the needs and satisfaction of our members, retirees, employers, and fellow employees. Actions and decisions put the needs of the customer first. Establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and seeks feedback to use for improvement. Accountability - Takes personal responsibility for one’s work in both successes and failures. Shows commitment and dedication in one’s work. Follows through on all projects, goals, commitments made to others, and all other aspects of one’s work.
Consistently shows attention to quality, accuracy, and completeness of work activities. Uses failures as opportunity to learn and grow. Attends work and arrives as scheduled. Collaboration - Interacts with others in ways that demonstrate teamwork and cooperation. Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others at all levels of the organization to achieve goals and support ONE SERS. Acknowledges others’ contributions and considers their ideas without judgment. Focuses energy on working together to find solutions. Respect and Inclusivity - Able to work with many people with different backgrounds. Shows respect for individual differences, thoughts, and opinions of other team members and is supportive of new ideas and different perspectives shared by others. Seeks to understand through open communication and active listening. Adaptability - Able to adjust to new or changing assignments, processes, people, and environments and easily consider new approaches. Strives to find efficient and innovative ways to overcome challenges and improve current processes and work products. Takes action on opportunities to improve. Embraces change and feedback in order to be more effective, efficient, and best serve our members, retirees, employers, and fellow employees. Shows dedication to positive thinking and forward momentum when facing challenges.
Note: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, and lift up to 10 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. SERS is an equal employment opportunity employer.
Disclaimer: This job posting is not meant to be all-inclusive and the position itself is subject to change. SERS is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We recruit, hire, train, and promote without discrimination due to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, military leave or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. SERS is committed to ensuring all applicants can successfully submit an application for consideration.
If you have a disability, and you wish to discuss potential accommodations to complete your application for employment, please call (614) 340-2255.
SERS does not accept unsolicited recruiter and agency resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with SERS.
84398.00 To 126598.00 (USD) Annually
