Role Overview
Coordinates the daily workflow of the project team, driving the requirements process through a structured project lifecycle and ensuring seamless communication between internal and external stakeholders. This role requires a senior leader with 10+ years of experience managing complex consulting programs, specifically within government environments. The coordinator ensures all deliverables align with PMO/PMI standards and strategic program milestones.
Key Responsibilities
- Workstream Coordination: Directs the daily activities of Business Analysts, Data Analysts, and Technical Analysts to ensure all project streams remain on schedule and within scope.
- Resource Allocation: Manages team assignments and task distribution to optimize productivity across multi-disciplinary technical and business workstreams.
- Project Scheduling: Develops and maintains detailed project schedules, tracking progress against critical path milestones and key deliverables.
- Stage-Gate Governance: Manages the transition between project phases (Initiation, Planning, Execution, and Closure), ensuring all requirements are met before proceeding to the next gate.
- Formal Reporting: Produces comprehensive status reports, including RAID logs (Risks, Actions, Issues, and Dependencies), for presentation to executive leadership.
- Regulatory Alignment: Ensures all project activities, reporting, and documentation meet the specific compliance and transparency standards required for government-facing projects.
- PMI Standard Execution: Operates as a subject matter expert on PMI best practices, enforcing standardized project management methodologies across the program.
- Requirements Traceability: Oversees the requirements repository (e.g., Jira/Confluence), maintaining a rigorous Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) that is audit-ready and linked to the program roadmap.
- Strategic Liaison: Acts as the primary point of contact between technical teams and high-level business stakeholders, facilitating formal requirements review meetings.
- Roadblock Escalation: Proactively identifies project bottlenecks and escalates critical risks to the API Technical Lead or senior program leadership.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- Senior Consulting Leadership: 10+ years of experience leading high-stakes consulting programs and managing large-scale IT or data services projects.
- Professional Certification: Must be PMO or PMI (PMP) certified.
- Government Sector Expertise: Proven experience or deep functional knowledge of navigating government agencies or highly regulated public sector environments.
- Structured Project Management: Demonstrated ability to manage formal project lifecycles, Gantt charts, and complex dependency mapping.
- Team Leadership: Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams in a high-pressure, deliverable-based environment.
- PMO/PMI certified
- 10+ years managing consulting programs
- Government experience / knowledge
- Nice to have - finance transformation, billing, AR, collections knowledge
Preferred Qualifications
- Finance Transformation Knowledge: Experience in large-scale finance modernization initiatives, specifically regarding Billing, Accounts Receivable (AR), and Collections.
- Financial Services Background: Prior experience at the intersection of government regulation and financial data integrity.
Location: Remote (relocation assistance is offered)
About Techstra Solutions
Techstra Solutions is a certified woman-owned (WBENC) management consulting firm specializing in strategy, technology, and implementation services for large organizations undergoing digital and talent transformation. Our experienced team partners with clients to co-create innovative solutions in applications, data, AI, and automation that accelerate measurable, sustainable change. From advisory consulting through technical execution, we are dedicated to driving world-class business solutions that fit your strategic requirements and deliver results. For more information: www.techstrasolutions.com
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- 10+ years leading high-stakes consulting programs and managing large-scale IT or data services projects
- PMO or PMI (PMP) certification
- Proven experience navigating government agencies and highly regulated public sector environments
- Demonstrated ability managing formal project lifecycles, Gantt charts, and complex dependency mapping
- Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams (Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Technical Analysts)
- Experience using Jira and Confluence and maintaining an audit-ready Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
- Finance transformation, billing, AR, and collections knowledge
- Financial services background interfacing with government regulation and financial data integrity
What We Do
Techstra Solutions is a certified woman-owned consulting firm that provides strategy, technology and implementation support to large organizations undergoing digital and talent transformation. The rapid pace of technology innovation required to remain competitive, juxtaposed with the slow rate of change in many organizations, causes most to struggle. To be successful companies must drive new ways of working including the use of technology/analytics and new skillsets (hard/soft) deep into their culture so that they are able to rapidly and continuously react to change. They must also apply new approaches that empower their employees, ensuring its sustainability. At Techstra Solutions we focus on four key areas, otherwise known as the 4 A’s: Automation (Robotic Process Automation (RPA)/Intelligent Automation), Analytics (Reporting/Analytics/AI/ML), Application Modernization (Cloud, Mobility, etc), and Agile-based solutions (DevOps).
