The Project Manager will lead complex virtualization, infrastructure, and cloud transformation projects within a professional services environment. The ideal candidate brings robust Agile project leadership, deep experience with VMware‑based solutions or other enterprise virtualization platforms, experience using JIRA and GitHub in Agile project management, and the ability to adapt to a proprietary services delivery model while driving measurable customer outcomes.
Responsibilities:
• Oversee end‑to‑end delivery of projects—ensuring they meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.
• Develop and maintain project artifacts, including charters, scope documents, WBS, estimates, resource plans, budgets, schedules, risks, and issue logs across multiple workstreams.
• Direct and monitor daily project activities, identify resource needs, perform quality reviews, and escalate issues, as necessary.
• Apply Agile practices while adapting to the client’s proprietary services delivery methodology.
• Define and manage overall project risks and take corrective action in a proactive manner to mitigate risks and prevent issues
• Direct and monitor work efforts on a daily basis, identify resource needs, perform quality review, and escalate functional, quality, and timeline issues appropriately.
• Provide clear and timely communication regarding the status of the project – schedule, budget, progress to date, risks, etc. - to relevant stakeholders.
• Engage with sales and account teams to identify/drive account growth opportunities and drive product adoption.
• Drive continuous improvement of project processes – methodology, templates, best practices, etc., based on lessons learned from projects.
Required Skills:
• Minimum of 5+ years’ technical program/project management experience delivering IT-enterprise solutions within a professional services organization.
• Solid experience working independently in a fast-paced environment on complex engagements across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Must be comfortable interfacing with customers and stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong history of leading IT infrastructure projects (networking virtualization, etc.), strong preference for VMware technologies (e.g., VCF, vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Aria Suite).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proven Agile project delivery experience for enterprise-level customer engagements.
• Expert-level proficiency in project management tools like Clarity, Jira, GitHub, or MS Project.
• PMP required, Agile certifications (e.g., PMI-ACP, CSM, SAFe) strongly preferred. Experience managing Agile projects with JIRA and GitHub strongly preferred.
• Ability to obtain a VMware VSP 9 certification within 30 days of hire.
• Ability to work remotely with occasional travel if needed.
• Education: BA/BS in Business, IT, or a related field.
• Active US Government security clearance is preferred.
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