Remote Java Software Engineer Jobs in Lexington, KY

Job Overview:

Requirement/Must Have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience managing large-scale Information Technology projects.
• Experience managing Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid software development projects.
• Experience facilitating business requirements sessions with executive leadership and business users.
• Experience writing Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirements, Use Cases, User Stories, and Process Flow diagrams.
• Experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, and change management.
• Experience coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.
• Experience managing software vendors and contractual deliverables.
• Experience reviewing technical and functional documentation.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Experience using Microsoft Project, Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, ServiceNow, or similar project management and work management tools.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively with business and technical teams.
• Experience working with executive leadership and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, coordinating, organizing, and managing all phases of the project.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, resource assignments, and budgets.
• Manage project scope, schedule, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and change requests.
• Coordinate project activities among business stakeholders, vendors, technical teams, infrastructure, security, and executive leadership.
• Facilitate project meetings, steering committee meetings, status meetings, and executive briefings.
• Monitor vendor performance and ensure contractual deliverables are completed on time and meet quality expectations.
• Track project budget, invoices, procurement activities, and contract deliverables.
• Prepare weekly and monthly project status reports and communicate project health to management.
• Ensure compliance with project management standards and SDLC processes.
• Coordinate release planning, testing activities, production deployments, and post-implementation support.
• Proactively identify and mitigate project risks and resolve issues before they impact the project schedule.

Nice to Have:

• Experience managing Digital Transformation initiatives.
• Experience implementing Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) processes.
• Prior experience supporting Commonwealth of Kentucky or other State Government agencies.
• Prior experience supporting public health or healthcare information systems.
• Experience managing projects involving vendor-developed cloud solutions and Software’s as a Service (SaaS).