Project Manager - Infrastructure

Project Manager - Infrastructure
Rate: $70.00 - $77.00 hourly
Experience: Senior

Contractor's Role:

Lead high-impact technology initiatives and drive results! We're seeking an experienced professional to oversee the successful delivery of large-scale infrastructure programs and projects. You'll keep complex initiatives moving forward while ensuring alignment with established standards, best practices, and business objectives.

Qualifications:
• Experience leading infrastructure technology projects and leading teams to execute highly complex initiatives of significant scope, scale and risk to successfully deliver project objectives and benefits.
• Program/project management expertise including working knowledge and application of Waterfall, Hybrid and/or Agile methodologies.
• Skillful in adopting corporate project management standards (which incorporate PMI standards), IT controls, risk and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated ability leading multiple concurrent projects.
• Results oriented and bias for action and execution.
• Sound problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Adept at navigating a matrixed environment, influence, inform, and collaborate with all levels of the organization.
• Strong communication skills to effectively share information, collaborate and drive results ensuring appropriate level of engagement from all members of the project team.
• Ability to easily process information from various sources and simplify the complex.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Self-starter with an ability to operate in a fast-paced environment and manage ambiguity.
• Thrive in a team environment and work well with others.
• General familiarity with infrastructure technology (Servers / Storage / Network / Database / Middleware).
• Familiarity working with PPM Tools such as Clarity and other tools including Service Now, Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.
• Solid working knowledge of MS Office Suite including MS Project, SharePoint, and Teams, etc.
• PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) or Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification

Nice to Haves:
• Experience in a large financial services firm or highly regulated industry a plus
• Experience leading application development initiatives
• Network project experience preferred

Tasks and Responsibilities:
• Lead project team to successfully deliver project objective and benefits providing required oversight to ensure control of scope, schedule, resources and cost.
• Provide structured project management leadership by establishing governance, ensuring clear roles and responsibilities for all project team members, defining phases, and identifying deliverables/milestones.
• Develop project plans, provide executional leadership, and track progress on project goals.
• Identify and manage areas of risk and dependencies including contingency planning and developing project health restoration plans.
• Ensure adherence to client project standards, IT controls, risk and regulatory requirements.
• Provide timely communications on project status and health including scope, schedule, resource, and/or budget as well as articulate key risks/issues and associated impacts.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and motivate project team.
• Partner with stakeholders to plan for and manage project resources.
• Facilitate discussions and working sessions across the various teams involved in the project.
• Establish and execute against project communication plans.
• Escalate in a timely manner to the appropriate party(ies) to address decisions needed, the removal of road blocks and other obstacles or constraints.