As a Senior IT Infrastructure Project Manager for one of our leading clients, you will be responsible for leading large complex projects, or multiple medium size projects, that span multiple systems and business areas by planning delivery, organizing teams, managing scope, budget, and schedule, tracking progress, and reporting status. You will be involved with maturing project management methodology, policies, processes, tools and templates to contribute to the successful delivery of the IT projects. You will be accountable for the delivery process in support of progress against commitments. Other duties include facilitating all activities related to standing up and running a project from inception to closure (this includes, building a project charter, communicating resource requirements and ensuring proper governance among other activities); identifying, monitoring and managing project/program risks and issues in a timely and unbiased manner (follow governance standards for escalating to right levels at the right time); providing transparent reporting and metrics on project health (scope, schedule and budget), and support all communications related to project delivery process. You will also lead, mentor, and support project team in your role as an Agile PM (i.e., Scrum Master/Release Train Engineer); shield team from external distractions, run interference, etc.; collaborate with other functions (governance and change enablement) to ensure consistency, compliance and user adoptions; drive projects from both a tactical and strategic perspective, and work with other PMs to manage interdependencies; develop and manage project budgets - track, collate and analyze planned vs actual values for time and cost; take corrective/preventive actions as warranted; and, capture, publish and refresh project records (as appropriate), such as key decisions and action items, meeting minutes, risks and issues.
This role requires team leadership, business acumen, strong relationship management skills within IT and the Business and the ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization. Working knowledge of IT infrastructure, systems integration and vendor management experience is essential. Excellent communication and presentation skills are a must. Proficiency utilizing productivity/collaboration tools (such as Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint) needed.
Desired Skills:
Agile, Waterfall, Project Manager, Infrastructure, PMP, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio
**Position requires 50% onsite work; local candidates preferred**