IT Project Manager; Senior​/Specialist

Note

This position will remain open until filled. It is at the hiring manager's discretion to make a hiring decision at any time and close the recruitment. The first round of applications will be reviewed on January 26, 2026. It is in your best interest to apply as soon as possible.

Our physical office is in Olympia, WA. We offer flexible work schedules and locations. This is a hybrid position where most of the work allows teleworking. However, you must reside in the state of Washington and travel to in-person activities, meetings, and events as needed for business purposes.

The Office of Financial Management (OFM) serves as the backbone of Washington state government. Our mission is to make our state a better place by connecting people, budgets, policies, data, and systems for state agencies and the Legislature. Our team includes budget advisors, researchers, and other experts, all dedicated public servants working toward an equitable future for every Washingtonian. If you want to play a key role in enhancing how state government serves its citizens, you’ve found the right place.

Join us in making a meaningful difference for every Washingtonian!

This position plays a critical role in advancing the Office of Financial Management’s (OFM) implementation of One Washington, the statewide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that modernizes and integrates core enterprise applications used by state agencies, higher education, the Legislature, and the Governor’s Office. As an IT Senior Project Manager, you will lead and coordinate multiple complex projects and sub-projects that support the replacement of legacy systems with One Washington.

These projects include system conversions, integrations, reporting enhancements, and application modifications driven by evolving workflows and enterprise requirements. You will manage interconnected impacts across enterprise applications, develop detailed project schedules and work plans, and ensure the successful execution of technology solutions that enable transformed business processes. Success in this role requires skillful stakeholder engagement, negotiation across diverse priorities and resources, and the ability to build strong partnerships while guiding large-scale change that contributes directly to the successful delivery of the state’s new ERP environment.

• Lead, plan, and control multiple projects and sub-projects for the implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application for OFM.
• Identify and manage impacts to Legacy applications as the ERP is rolled out in phases by creating several subprojects and working with diverse business lines, technologies, and teams.
• Responsible for managing change, risk, and quality management processes throughout the lifecycle of the projects to include identifying and escalating risks to Leadership or the One Wa team when appropriate.
• Provide project management services such as status, leading meetings, driving projects/tasks to completion, and accepting responsibility for the project teams’ performance.
• Provide leadership, consultation, and oversight to the project team members and stakeholders through the duration of the project.
• Develop all the required project documentation, including but not limited to plans to manage the project integration, scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communications, risk, procurement, change, and stakeholders.
• Conduct project closeout activities such as lessons learned, post-implementation report, transition plans, documentation clean‑up, resource release, etc.
• Responsible for identifying appropriate resources (contractors, staff, and technology) needed and working with resource managers to assemble project teams.
• Assign project team members’ responsibilities and tasks, set project performance expectations, and create accountability within the team to the project and each other.
• Develop properly resourced schedules to ensure timely completion of projects.
• Collaborate with OFM PMO Team to create, review, implement, and update project templates, tools, processes, and standards.
• Provide consultation on best…