The City of Bellevue is implementing a long-term city-wide program called Business Transformation to implement modern, user-friendly enterprise technologies that will make work more efficient and provide better data insights, ensuring Bellevue's business systems, processes, employees, and technology meet the needs of the community and workforce.
Requirements
- Advanced technical product and project management skills with proven experience leading enterprise software implementation projects.
- Product, Program and/or Project Management certification preferred.
Responsibilities
- Leads the planning, design, development, implementation, lifecycle management and continuous improvement of complex technology solutions and collaborates across the city to design, develop, and implement products that align with city and program priorities, strategic plans and goals.
- Supports strategic product planning, including the development of goals, product roadmaps, work plans and mechanisms for regular assessment of performance toward the goals.
- Provides leadership and detailed guidance to one or more multi-functional teams composed of software developers, business analysts, subject matter experts, project managers and vendors through creation of plans, determination of team priorities and establishment of team processes needed to achieve product objectives.
- Drives complex decision making through teams with differing interests and expertise.
- Fosters collaborative relationships with city leadership, cross-functional teams and subject matter experts to create unified systems and products that support city priorities, strategic plans and goals.
- Manages and leads product initiatives and large, complex projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, meet expected quality standards and achieve desired outcomes while also minimizing organization disruption and preparing users to successfully adopt associated changes.
- Perform a wide variety of professional duties, including research, planning, city-wide coordination, process improvement, project management, organizational change management and vendor management to facilitate development, deployment and lifecycle management of enterprise technology solutions, architecture and ecosystems to meet Business Transformation Program goals efficiently and effectively.
Other
- The role is a limited term with an expected duration of 5 years.
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with prior experience managing cross-functional teams and demonstrated ability to build relationships and work effectively with diverse groups of stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think innovatively, critically and strategically and with a future-focused mindset.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate information to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Proven experience leading organizations through transformational change.
