Senior Project Manager IT Infrastructure
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 of the fact that many of them have been promoted to more senior roles: management, senior management, and senior executive leadership positions.
We are actively seeking qualified candidates for the following position for our client, who is a global leader:
Senior Project Manager IT Infrastructure
Location: Remote(EST/ CST)
Type: Contract
Role Summary:
Senior Project Manager will be responsible for delivering multiple strategic efforts of the organization, especially focused on IT infrastructure, especially Cyber Security and Cloud.
Technical knowledge/skills
- Advanced knowledge of IT standards, policies and procedures
- Advanced knowledge of project management frameworks
- Advanced knowledge of Tools for Managing and Reporting team progress
- Proficient working with technology platforms
Key responsibilities include:
- 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.
- This position will be supporting IT infrastructure projects, especially Cyber Security, Cloud and Networking from initiation and scope, through requirements gathering, planning, implementation, and close out, focusing on process, documentation, and communication.
- Partnering with other delivery groups to align ongoing efforts in areas such as network design & security, procurement, 3rd 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 with IT and business stakeholders.
- Helping the team in identifying development opportunities and challenging the team to actively work on improving their performance.
- Managing budgets, forecasts and vendor teams.
- Ensuring alignment of project objectives with the overall IT strategy and roadmap.
- Ensures project or framework specific governance is implemented.
LEVEL BASED COMPETENCIES
Level Based Competencies are to be designated based on job level and content.
- Strong Decision Making, Collaboration, conflict management, facilitation and delegation skills
- Excellent experience in dealing with C-level executives
- Can coach other project managers and business team members in applying right methodology
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities with competing deadlines
- 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 traditional and agile frameworks that are best suited to the needs of the project to deliver value.
- Must have strong experience in managing large, complex projects
- Training and certifications in traditional project management and/or agile methodologies is preferred
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