IT Infrastructure Project Manager- Plymouth, MN or Hartford, CT - Full-time / Part-time

This Senior IT Infrastructure Project Manager will lead large, complex infrastructure-focused projects to achieve key business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a matrixed team of system design engineers, system build engineers and infrastructure technologists to successfully deliver significant infrastructure change in a large-scale enterprise environment


• Translate highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences


• Predict emerging customer needs and develops innovative solutions to meet them


• Interact with and report regularly to executive project sponsors and senior technology leadership


• Concurrently manage the infrastructure build-out on multiple corporate change initiatives


• Provide leadership in steering projects toward defined standard infrastructure solutions, platforms and best practices


• Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and/or approaches when appropriate


• Ensure the infrastructure adheres to the requirements for availability, stability, and efficiency


• Develop and maintain infrastructure and resource cost estimates


• Define and manage project schedules, resources, and delivery commitments


• Complete assigned projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines


• Manage project risks and issues


• Delegate, integrate activities, and resolve conflicts


• Strong project management and planning skills including experience in successfully managing major projects with use of and adherence to structured methodologies
  

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.


• A minimum of 6 or more years experience across multiple enterprise-level infrastructure disciplines such as server, network, security, and data center infrastructure, for application, middleware, database and/ or  web environments.


• A minimum of 5 years experience as an IT Project Manager in a large enterprise environment.


• A minimum of 3 or more years experience working with and/or presenting to senior or executive-level management.

Assets:

• Healthcare insurance background preferred


• Database and Server experience preferred


• Previous experience with mainframe technologies preferred


• Budget tracking and complex cost benefit analysis including creation of preliminary and final project cost estimates.

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