Senior IT Project Manager
Location: Las Vegas, NV (Open for remote)
Position: Sr IT Project Manager
Pay Rate: $60-70/hr
Duration: a contract position for 12-18 months beginning in January of 2025.
SUMMARY:
Manage multiple medium to large scale projects, leading cross-functional teams through the design, build, test, and go live stages, ensure all projects are delivered on schedule, within scope, and on budget, all within a dynamic casino gaming and IT environment.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Project Planning & Execution:
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project management plans, ensuring adherence to PM methodology.
- Lead all project phases from initiation to completion, ensuring that timelines, budgets, business milestones, and deliverables are met.
- Delegate tasks to team members based on their skills and responsibilities, ensuring efficient task completion.
- Create all required PM artifacts and documentation.
- Adjust project schedules and targets as business needs or financing change.
Stakeholder & Team Collaboration:
- Serve as the main point of contact between internal teams (operations, compliance, IT) and external vendors, ensuring project alignment across all units.
- Facilitate communication between stakeholders, ensuring that goals, updates, risks, and team actions remain in synergy.
- Lead project meetings, resolve conflicts, and maintain productive working relationships with business owners, sponsors, and project teams.
Risk, Issue, and Compliance Management:
- Identify, assess, and mitigate risks or issues, ensuring compliance with gaming regulations and industry standards.
- Develop and maintain RIDA logs (Risk, Issues, Decisions, Actions).
- Work closely with legal and compliance teams to meet gaming regulations and ensure all project activities are aligned with regulatory requirements.
- Negotiate conflicts and address issues that may impact project progress.
Systems Integration & Quality Assurance:
- Oversee the integration of IT systems with casino operations, ensuring they meet functionality, regulatory, and security requirements.
- Lead testing efforts, ensuring that systems are thoroughly tested and meet quality standards before deployment.
- Coordinate smooth handovers of systems and ensure the readiness of end-users through proper training and support.
Budget & Resource Management:
- Manage project budgets, track costs versus forecasts, and make necessary adjustments to ensure financial objectives are met.
- Develop budget requests for resources and oversee vendor contracts, staffing requirements, and team allocations.
- Continuously monitor resource needs, performing quality reviews, and escalating any issues related to scope, budget, or timeline.
Reporting & Performance Monitoring:
- Continuously monitor project progress, identify potential risks early, and implement recovery plans where needed.
- Prepare and present regular status reports for management and stakeholders, covering project scope, milestones, budget, risk, and critical issues.
- Ensure project deliverables are met and that projects are completed to the satisfaction of stakeholders.
Leadership & Continuous Improvement:
- Lead, and motivate project teams, fostering a collaborative and productive environment.
- Conduct post-project reviews to gather lessons learned and identify areas for improvement in future projects.
- Use past experiences to anticipate potential project challenges and areas for innovation.
JOB SPECIFICATIONS:
Required:
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in project management, including 3 years specifically in the casino gaming sector and 4 years managing IT projects.
- Strong knowledge of casino gaming systems, IT infrastructure, and platforms (including Slot management systems, Cage operations, Table game systems, Payment processing, Loyalty programs, and Online gaming platforms).
- Experience managing large-scale upgrades of casino and gaming products (Slot management, Loyalty, and Progressive systems) across an enterprise.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Excellent leadership, negotiation, and mediation skills.
- Expertise in budget management, risk mitigation, and team leadership.
- Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional planning and organizational abilities.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization.
- Ability to elicit cooperation from upper management, clients, and various departments.
- Adaptability to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines.
- Ability to navigate and work through ambiguity.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency with project management tools (MS Project) and methodologies (Agile, Waterfall).
Preferred:
- Bachelor's degree in an information technology-related discipline or equivalent experience.
- Familiarity with gaming regulatory compliance and laws, particularly Gaming Control Board regulations
CERTIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
- PMP certification or equivalent industry recognized certification preferred.
- Incumbent must be able to obtain and maintain any necessary certifications and/or licenses.
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