Senior Project Manager Cloud, Cybersecurity, Disaster Recovery (Remote)

Dexter Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of Staffing and Recruiting Services. For over two decades, we have put countless professionals to work at exciting opportunities. We are proud that many have advanced into management, senior management, and executive leadership roles.

We are actively seeking a qualified candidate for the following position with our client, an industry leader:

Senior Project Manager Cloud, Cybersecurity, Disaster Recovery

Location: Remote

Type: Long Term Contract

Key responsibilities include:

• This position will be leading Cloud, Cybersecurity and DR/Business Continuity projects from initiation and scope, through requirements gathering, planning, implementation, and close out, focusing on process, documentation, and communication.
• Using hands-on and a proactive approach to ensure that value is delivered - with full responsibility for all aspects of a project including managing milestones, identifying and tracking issues and risks, and driving the team to meet project goals.
• Partnering with other delivery groups to align ongoing efforts in areas such as network design & security, procurement, 3^rd party review, etc.
• Partner with business on establishing operations support center.
• Contributing to the team by participating in solution definition and removing roadblocks
• Surfacing challenges that require cross team coordination or leadership intervention prior to them impacting scope, cost or the timeline.
• Establishing a good cadence for communicating outside the team including conducting effective meetings for the given audience by managing the agenda, running the meeting and communicating/tracking follow-ups.
• Establishing strong relationships across IT teams.
• Helping the team in identifying development opportunities and challenging the team to actively work on improving their performance.
• Managing budgets, forecasts and vendor teams.
• Ensures project or framework specific governance is implemented.

LEVEL BASED COMPETENCIES

Level Based Competencies are to be designated based on job level and content.

• Proven extensive Cloud, Cybersecurity and DR/Business Continuity experience
• Strong Decision Making, Collaboration, conflict management, facilitation and delegation skills
• Excellent experience in dealing with C-level executives
• Ability to drive deliverables through completion and hold team members accountable for their work
• Ability to identify potential risks and provide proactive mitigations

Job / General knowledge/skills

• Positive can-do attitude, solutions-oriented and willingness to extend beyond day-to-day project manager responsibilities
• Strong ability in Problem Solving, Forward Thinking, Influencing Stakeholders
• Strong Adaptability and Sense of ownership
• Strong ability to Build Relationships and Credibility with Management
• Strong Ability to Influence and Drive Cross Functional Decisions and Initiatives

Leadership/Supervision

• Minimal to no Supervision and Oversight required
• Strong ability to provide feedback and apply feedback received to improve performance.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field or relevant experience
• 10+ years of managing initiatives in IT infrastructure area
• Must have experience in applying waterfall framework
• Must have strong experience in managing large, complex projects
• Training and certifications in traditional project management and/or agile methodologies is preferred