Applications project manager job description

LaBella Associates was established in 1978 and is a certified Great Place To Work. We are headquartered in Rochester, NY with offices across New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and Madrid, Spain. LaBella is a multi-disciplined architectural and engineering firm dedicated to client satisfaction through teamwork, respect, and trust. We provide services that take a project from start to finish-from an initial study to determine a project's feasibility to construction administration and start up, and everything in between.

We are currently hiring 3 Application Architects in our Program Management Services division at our CT, ME, and NY offices.

The Program Management Services Division at LaBella provides comprehensive management services for complex projects and multi-year capital programs. Project teams are established to provide a customized mix of business consulting, project management, financial control and monitoring, administrative, and technical support services.

The Application Architect understands existing application architectures including associated product vendors, application requirements, configurable settings, application interfaces, associated data flows, compatibility and interoperability risks. This role understands current architectures and develops potential new and/or augmented architecture focusing on areas such as privileged user access, identities and access, data classification, etc.

Supports cyber assurance audits and assessments and delivers and ensures security of new functionality. Ensures only secure, trusted code is implemented, that gold images are managed, that PKI and key management strategies are properly designed and implemented, and that recovery mechanisms are architected and properly implemented. Develops workflows and user roles for role-based security and determines required user access to networks and devices.

Develops application concepts and works on the capabilities needed for all phases of the development life cycle; translates technology and environmental conditions (e.g., law and regulation) into application architecture and security designs and processes. Ensures that the stakeholder security requirements necessary to protect the organization's mission and business processes are adequately addressed in all aspects of application architecture.
Responsibilities
Design modeling and building use cases (e.g., unified modeling language). Apply best-practice methods, standards, and approaches for describing, analyzing, and documenting our Client's application architecture. Optimize application architecture to meet performance requirements. Execute application integration processes and build application architectures and frameworks. Apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation). Define and prioritize essential application capabilities or business functions required for partial or full system restoration after a catastrophic failure event. Define appropriate levels of application availability based on critical system functions and ensure that system requirements identify appropriate disaster recovery and continuity of operations requirements to include any appropriate fail-over/alternate site requirements, backup requirements, and material supportability requirements for system recover/restoration. Develop/integrate cybersecurity designs for applications with multilevel security requirements. Ensure that acquired or developed application(s) and architecture(s) are consistent with organization's cybersecurity architecture guidelines. Perform security reviews, identify gaps in application architecture, support risk management. Support activities requiring costs, design concepts/ changes to the application architecture. Provide input on application security requirements to be included in statements of work and other appropriate procurement documents. Provide input to the Risk Management Framework process activities and related documentation (e.g., system life-cycle support plans, concept of operations, operational procedures, and maintenance training materials). Define and document how the implementation of a new application or new interfaces between applications impacts the security posture of the current environment. Analyze application architectures, allocate security services, and select security mechanisms. Develop an application security context, a preliminary applications security Concept of Operations (CONOPS), and define baseline applications security requirements in accordance with applicable cybersecurity requirements. Evaluate applications architectures to determine adequacy of security design and architecture proposed or provided in response to requirements contained in acquisition documents. Analyze user needs and requirements to plan application architecture. Develop application architecture and/or components required to meet user needs. Document and update as necessary all application definition and architecture activities. Determine the protection needs (i.e., security controls) for the application architecture and document appropriately.
Qualifications
BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field 5 years in Operational Technology Security 10 years of OT/IT/Enterprise architecture and program implementation experience Knowledge of installation, integration, and optimization of applications and components. Database systems. Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles and organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation). Knowledge of network access, identity, and access management (e.g., public key infrastructure, Oauth, OpenID, SAML, SPML). Knowledge of application management principles, models, methods (e.g., end-to-end systems performance monitoring), and tools. Knowledge of confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements. Knowledge of multi-level security systems and cross domain solutions. Knowledge of application protection planning (e.g. information technology (IT) supply chain security/risk management policies, anti-tampering techniques, and requirements). Possess knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, Dynamic Host Configuration, Domain Name System (DNS), and directory services. Knowledge of our client's information classification program and procedures for information compromise. Familiarity with laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy. Knowledge of key concepts in security management (e.g., Release Management, Patch Management). Knowledge of security system design tools, methods, and techniques. Knowledge of software engineering. Knowledge of application design processes, to include understanding of security objectives, operational objectives, and trade-offs. SharePoint knowledge Teams knowledge Auditing/controls experience Develop Self & Others Empower to grow Collaborate and Share Be a role model Focus to achieve results Be agile

The offer of employment for this position will be conditioned upon a satisfactory criminal background check.


Company Perks


Health/Dental Insurance 401k Plan Short & Long Term Disability Profit Sharing Paid Time Off Verizon Wireless Discount Gym Reimbursement Tuition Reimbursement Referral Bonus Program Wellness Program Team Building Events Community Service Events
LaBella Associates does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiting professionals or agencies, nor do we accept resumes from any source that does not reference a specific, open position. LaBella Associates will not be responsible for any fees arising from the use of resume submitted by recruiting professionals or agencies that do not have a current placement fee agreement with LaBella Associates. All initial communication with recruiting professionals or agencies must go through human resources.

Plans and runs complex projects through complete life cycle.

Works directly with business teams (including high-level stakeholders) of an organization to facilitate an agreement on project objectives, scope, and requirements.

Assemble and work with a core team to drive decisions making, issue resolution, and overall oversight of the project

Facilitates decisions on proposed approach to address a business or an IT problem

Plans and schedules project deliverables, goals, and milestones

Develops a project plan including resources, time, and cost estimates.

Participates in/leads the development of the Request for Proposals/Request for Information (RFP/ROI) process.

Conduct feasibility, risk, regulatory compliance, and ROI analyses for proposed projects.

Oversees the design, development, and implementation phases of the project (where applicable), coordinating with the business, vendors, and relevant areas of expertise in IT

Makes decisions regarding day-to-day activities such as assigning and reviewing project tasks, resource management within the scope of the project, and approving deliverables for review with major stakeholders

Establishes measurement criteria to assess project effectiveness/success. Develops and monitors key performance indicators and benchmarks and performs benefits realization analysis

Monitors, communicates, and reports project status against project plan, requirements, budget, and quality measures to project stakeholders and executive sponsors

Maintains ongoing communication with customer/stakeholder/sponsor during the project to ensure that they are up to date on project progress

Participates in Change Control activities

Creates strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.

Facilitates creation of project documentation.

Conducts project closing activities (e.g., creates closeout plan and report, arranges for post implementation review, defines transition to operational stage process)

Requirements

Qualifications

Have a background managing business-facing IT application rollout projects (3+ years)

Proven management, communication, and analysis skills

Demonstrated Proficiency in MS Project, MS Office, and other project management tools

Bachelor's Degree or higher from an accredited college or university in business, Engineering, Technology, or related field

5+ years of experience in managing medium/large-scale business and IT projects introducing new applications and ways of working in an organization, for example, but not limited to SAP, ServiceNow, Case Management Systems, enterprise collaboration software (Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, etc.)

Strong organizational, presentation, and customer service skills

Familiarity with a variety of software development methodologies such as agile, waterfall, etc., and a strong understanding of the suitability of these methodologies for certain development environments and types of applications

PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification or equivalent preferred