Immediate opportunity for a s seasoned Project Manager who brings proven success delivering a variety of IT Infrastructure and Cybersecurity projects within large scale, enterprise environments. Ideally seeking a professional experienced in leading full lifecycle projects from planning through hyper care, with ability to work in close partnership with IT, business leaders, executive sponsors and external vendors.
Core competencies required to be successful in this role includes:
Critical thinking, results-orientation, strong business acumen, facilitation, Influencing, Problem solving, Budget and risk management, Excellent communicator, Highly collaborative nature, strong process orientation, Coach, and Executive presence.
Experience guidelines:
- Experience in managing complex technical projects
- Leader in defining and development of project requirements, specifications, and detailed designs
- Understanding of fundamentals of IT Architecture & Systems to deliver solutions is a must
- Extensive experience in providing design documents and translating into component-level designs to accelerate development
- Proven ability to size a development effort
- Experience in integrating multiple systems (logic and data) across the enterprise is required
- Functional knowledge and experience in implementing large and complex solutions either related to software, data or Infrastructure projects is required
- Project Management (PMI) or Agile Certification
- Ability to create and follow work and data flow charts
- Strong understanding of the Project Life Cycle and various delivery methodologies including Waterfall, hybrid and Agile
- Bachelors Degree
- 7+ years leading cybersecurity and IT infrastructure projects complex environments
- Experience managing projects sized @ $500K -$1M, or up to 5 small projects at a time, with teams less/25 people or less
- Create work break down structures to support project delivery and track plan
- Experience managing multiple medium to complex projects across multiple functions including planning, analysis, design, development, implementation, and satisfaction of project requirements
- Proven experience successfully managing business and technical resources under an integrated project plan to ensure the alignment of resources
- Ability to take ownership for managing all aspects of project management from discovery through delivery implementation
- Experience presenting, escalating, and providing solutions to senior leadership
- Experience managing a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
- Ability to quickly assess projects at the onset for areas of risk, identify gaps and recommend areas for improvement
- Experience in change management related aspects of project execution and ability to incorporate change considerations in planning / execution of projectsScrum Master
Daily Deliverables
- Develop communications, training strategies and execute against them
- Create and maintain project budgets
- Identify, analyze, track, and manage to closure project risks and issues
- Manage and organize project teams to support project needs
- Manage projects to successfully meet business requirements and outcomes
- Manage project progress and create effective status reports in line with PMO standards
- Ensures that solutions and services deliver at or above expected business value
- Engage and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders
- Execute required change management activities including training and communication
- In collaboration with key stakeholders, forecast financial and resource needs to meet established objectives for delivery
- Plan and run test plans
This is a hybrid opportunity with 3 days onsite to facilitate collaboration, with 2 days per week remote.
Initial Contract commencing ASAP, offering competitive rate, and full benefits suite including Health, Dental, Vision and 401k.