Top skills: 10 or more years’ experience as an IT project manager in a broad range of infrastructure related projects, including network, servers, and database solution deployments
Experience in managing application migrations to cloud (azure)
MS Project, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Jira, & Kanban, with minimum of 5 years of experience required.
Desired Quals:
· Experience as a Scrum master a plus.
· Six Sigma, Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management certificate or Certified Associate in Project Management preferred.
· Financial Services experience preferred.
· ITIL certification is a plus.
· Experience managing large scale migrations and/or complex technology implementations is desired.
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FULL DESCRIPTION FROM CLIENT BELOW-
Starting in May 2024, we started a large-scale project to extricate the applications from the one environment by end of 2026 and move them to another location (SG, Public Cloud, other…). This project is worldwide. The number of applications to migrate is small (47), but the complexity is very high because of trading applications, colos, and the number of market connectivity that will need to be replicated/moved.
Required Expertise:
· 10 or more years’ experience as an IT project manager in a broad range of infrastructure related projects, including network, servers, and database solution deployments.
· Ability to coordinate and oversee infrastructure and development teams’ execution.
· Background in technology, Linux, Microsoft Server, networking, market data and middleware, with the ability to coordinate with subject matters amongst these teams.
· Experience in managing application migrations to public cloud (especially to Azure), and the changes needed to leverage cloud services.
· Self-starter, proactive and works well with diverse groups.
· Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills and can communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences, as appropriate.
· Comfortable facilitating and presenting to groups.
· MS Project, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Jira, & Kanban, with minimum of 5 years of experience required.
· Possesses professional knowledge of product / function and applies knowledge to project activities to enhance delivery.
· Deeply understands all project management disciplines and their key activities, processes, and artifacts.
· Understands the relationship of their project(s) to the overall program.
· Leadership – Ability to work with team members to set and achieve development goals and provide constructive feedback throughout the project lifecycle.
· Knowledge of formal project management methodologies (e.g., PMI, Prince 2, etc.) and/or the Technology SDLC/PDLC Process, Agile, project planning tools (e.g., MS Project) and
project change strategies.
· General Project Management – Experience creating appropriate project documentation and effectively negotiates tradeoffs between scope, schedule, and budget; balances needs of
multiple stakeholders. Gains buy-in from groups who may be resistant to change.
· Schedule Management – Understanding of how to create, manage and understand impacts to project scope, constraints, and schedule. Manages projects according to work plan. Performs
critical path analysis.
· Cost Management – Experience developing and routinely reassessing project budgets to account for variances and ensure accuracy. Compares budget to actuals with forecasted costs,
identifies risk to project financials and their mitigation.
· Communication Management – Experience creating performance and status reports for relevant stakeholders.
· Risk & Issue Management – Understands how to develop and manage project risk and issue management plans; analyzes risks by probability and severity to assess their impact on project
delivery; implements solutions to mitigate risk threats.
· Resource Management – Understands how to develop project organization chart and governance structures. Defines roles and responsibilities of team members and builds cohesive teams.
· Quality Management – Experience defining processes and standards around governance, communication, and quality. Develops deliverable acceptance plans and criteria.
· Change Request Management – Ability to identify and develop strategy for changes in scope, schedule, and cost. Develops strategic rationale for change including costs, benefits,tradeoffs, etc.
· Implementation and Transition Management – Ability to create transition plans, identify lessons learned and applies the lessons learned to future projects.
· Integration Management – Understands how to identify and manage project and program interdependencies.
Desired Qualifications:
· Experience as a Scrum master a plus.
· Six Sigma, Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management certificate or Certified Associate in Project Management preferred.
· Financial Services experience preferred.
· ITIL certification is a plus.
· Experience managing large scale migrations and/or complex technology implementations is desired.
We are seeking a seasoned Technical Senior Project Manager to join our client's team in New York City. This hybrid position requires a dynamic professional with extensive experience in infrastructure-related projects, including server, network, and database solution deployments.
