IT Project Manager at a Major Japanese Bank

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Job Title: IT Project Manager
Job Experience Level: Senior (10+ Years)
Work Location Expectations: Hybrid Charlotte, North Carolina
Term: 12 Months

Description:

Summary: Oversees the delivery of Technology driven projects by managing scope, timelines, and stakeholder engagement while ensuring solutions align with functional requirements and organizational goals. Responsibilities: Lead cross-functional teams to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables. Translate functional requirements into actionable plans and coordinate with IT, operations, or other departments. Develop and manage project schedules, budgets, and resources. Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and executives. Ensure technical requirements are met through collaboration with subject matter experts and business analysts. Oversee testing, training, and change management activities related to project rollout. Skills: Proven experience managing functional or technical projects. Strong understanding of processes, workflows, and functional system requirements. Proficiency in project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Service Now/SPM, and Jira. Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills. PMP or similar project management certification is preferred.

The individual will need to hit the ground running, will inherit a project called "Workload Mobility"- Providing an individual application and its defined direct dependencies (other applications and any shared technology services like databases, websphere, and etc) collectively called a Recovery Group to conduct planned migration from one data center to another data center (currently NJC / WFC). The Recovery Groups goes thru planned migration validation process and get certified over a weekend - Saturday. This will allow Certified Workload Mobility applications as a Recovery Group collection to use Alternate Data Center actively.

Comments:

This is a high visibility project, requiring nights and weekend work to complete the data center migration effort. The individual must be highly technical, have a take charge/get it done attitude. Knowledge of Service Now/SPM is desired.