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Position Duties
NOTE – The first review of applications will Friday, December 13, 2024. Please submit your application by 11:59 p.m. (PST) on Thursday, December 12, 2024. if you would like your application to be included in the first review. Candidates who pass the first application review round will be invited to interviews on the week of January 6, 2025.
The City of San Jose is hiring for an Enterprise Resource Planning Modernization Technical Project Manager (Enterprise Supervising Technology Analyst) to lead the project to modernize the City’s ERP System. This is a multi-year project with the first phase being to identify a solution and an ERP implementation partner.
The position will be dedicated to managing the consolidation and replacement of the City’s aging ERP applications with a modern and robust ERP system. The ERP Technical Project Manager will partner with the Finance Department and City stakeholders to bring on a consulting firm to oversee the execution of the project. Thereafter, the ERP Technical Project Manager will partner closely with the consulting firm and the Finance Department’s Functional Project Manager to evaluate the City’s current ERP systems, identify gaps and improvements, define the project scope, objectives, and timelines, and manage the project team to ensure the ERP project is delivered on-time and on-budget.
In this role, you would serve as a technical project manager for the modernization of the City’s ERP systems. Responsibilities include but not limited to the following:
- Leading the technical workstream for the City’s ERP Modernization project.
- Partner with the Finance and IT sponsors and stakeholders to evaluate, select and onboard a consulting firm to oversee the execution of the project.
- Partner with the consulting firm, Finance Department, and IT stakeholders to evaluate the City’s current ERP systems, identify gaps and improvements, and define the ERP Modernization project scope.
- Collaborate with the project’s cross functional and technical teams and leads to communicate and escalate cross functional and technical impacts.
- Provide oversight and coordination of all technical workstream activities, including status reporting, resourcing, requirements, design, build, test, and deployment tasks.
- Develop, maintain, and operate the project management structure for the ERP implementation, including selection, configuration, deployment and operation of project management tools, project management processes and project reporting.
- Define and document project scope, objectives, and success criteria with particular focus on alignment with business objectives.
- Create and maintain project plans, including schedules, timeline, tasks, and budget.
- Break down complex tasks into actionable work items, with accurately estimated required time and effort, appropriate sequencing plus alignment of co-dependent activities.
- Determine resource requirements: identify and schedule appropriate people and assets.
- Manage day to day activities against project plans and identify issues or bottlenecks requiring escalation or resolution.
- Assist in defining and managing project governance roles and parameters.
Salary Information: The actual salary shall be determined by the final candidate’s qualifications and experience. In addition to the starting salary, employees in the Enterprise Supervising Technology Analyst (ESTA) classification shall also receive an approximate five percent (5%) ongoing non-pensionable compensation pay.
- Salary Range (including the 5% NPWI): $141,697.92 – $172,645.20
The ESTA classification is represented by the City Association of Management Personnel
(CAMP).