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Role: Technical Project Manager
Location: Remote
Duration: 12+ Months
Primary Focus: Project Management within the Microsoft Ecosystem
The core requirement is for a project manager who has a proven track record of leading initiatives where Microsoft technologies are the central component. The emphasis on "3-5 Microsoft and AI projects" with significant budgets ($2-5MM) and team sizes (10-15 members) indicates a need for experience in complex, enterprise-level environments.
Key Areas of "Microsoft Experience":
- Understanding Microsoft's Business and Licensing Models: This is a critical and explicitly stated need. The ideal candidate will have experience with the complexities of Microsoft's various licensing agreements (e.g., Enterprise Agreements, MPSA, CSP). This knowledge is vital for project planning, budgeting, and ensuring compliance. They should be able to "hold conversations" and understand the implications of different licensing choices on a project's scope and financials.
- Managing Microsoft Product Enhancements and Lifecycles: The hiring manager's stress on "enhancements" and "cycle structures" points to a need for a PM who has managed projects that involve customizing, upgrading, or integrating Microsoft products. This could include:
- Azure: Experience with projects involving Azure infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS), data services (Azure SQL, Azure Synapse Analytics), or AI/ML services (Azure Machine Learning). While the AI team is strong, the PM needs to understand the Azure platform where these services run.
- Microsoft 365/Office 365: Projects related to the deployment or enhancement of SharePoint Online, Teams, or other M365 applications.
- Dynamics 365: Experience managing CRM or ERP projects using Microsoft's business applications.
- Familiarity with Microsoft's Development and Project Management Tools: The mention of Azure DevOps (ADO) is significant. A strong candidate will have hands-on experience using ADO for sprint planning, backlog management, and tracking work items, even in a hybrid Agile environment. This complements the primary project management tool, ServiceNow.
- Strong background in organizational change management (OCM) can guide teams through change adoption.
- Infra and Application Management: Should understand enterprise collaboration tools, cloud platforms, infrastructure (networks, servers, storage), and enterprise app ecosystems not to the level of an engineer, but enough to ask the right questions.
Description:
The Technical Project Manager manages complex projects and Agile value streams, which are highly visible and critical to the business. The Technical Project Manager communicates with team members and stakeholders effectively and understands how to motivate and lead teams, projects, and people in a resource-intensive, highly demanding and rapidly changing business environment. This role requires maintaining day-to-day tasks, the product delivery, and the project s overall success. The Technical Project Manager is also responsible for change management activities at all levels of the organization.
What you will do:
Plan, build, and run technology-based solutions consistent with CDW s SDLC implementation methodology
Manage and deliver programs and projects within stated targets.
Responsible for the delivery of effective change management by consistent application of the change management process and the correct integration of tools, platforms, applications and resources.
Management of IT Application and Infrastructure change requests, approvals and the scheduled releases into the production environment.
Deliver customer facing and internal change management activities to ensure ongoing stakeholder and user engagement.
Coach and guide team members how to optimize their efficiency within the project team best with Waterfall and SAFe Agile framework
Helping the team achieve a high level of performance and quality, holding teams accountable for their work.
Defining the deliverable's schedule and scope while balancing this with timely and regular value deliveries, and organizing and leading team scrum, planning meetings.
Supporting the product owner in managing communications with stakeholders, managing business stakeholder's expectations for deliverables.
Ensure project artifacts such as user stories, definition of done, acceptance criteria, and test cases are properly documented.
Identify and address impediments and blockers, recognize and manage risks, dependencies, escalating when necessary.
Utilize tools such as ServiceNow to track team progress, productivity, velocity, and individual performance.
Measure and report on team performance and progress, as well as identify opportunities for improvement.
Manage and Drive initiatives within the Enterprise Application and Infrastructure Team focused on:
Enterprise Support Services: Delivering optimal first impressions using technology and services that enhance productivity for today s hybrid, always-connected coworker.
Enterprise Collaboration Services: Delivering best in class collaboration tools using developed standards to support and enrich coworker productivity and accessibility.
Enterprise Application Services: Delivering innovative enterprise solutions that enhances coworker s productivity
Platform Engineering Services: Leveraging public cloud and relentless automation to improve developer agility, systems availability, security, and innovation.
Enterprise Infrastructure: Delivering cost-effective, scalable, and reliable backbone infrastructure to enable productivity and innovation.
Enterprise M&A: Working with newly acquired companies to make sure all coworkers are enabled to work, thrive, and grow within CDW, and their business, solutions, and customer focus are made part of CDW, fulfilling the go-to-market strategy.
What we expect of you:
Required Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or related field
Proficient in all Microsoft Office applications.
Understanding of how organizations go through a change and the change process.
Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies and tools.
Demonstrated through problem solving skills with an understanding of process excellence.
Proven track record of managing costs, schedules, and scope.
The ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a matrix organization.
Excellent written and verbal and communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate across the company and departments at all levels.
The ability to support the needs of the project team and internal stakeholders, while holding team members accountable for completion within Waterfall and SAFe Agile project methodologies.
Successful history in decomposing business objectives into a series of associated projects and manage deliverables through project teams.
Master's Degree, a plus
Industry Certifications (PMP, CBAP, Six Sigma), a plus.
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Arjun Singh Shekhawat
Technical Recruiter| Empower Professionals
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