Sia Partners is a next-generation management consulting firm. We offer a unique blend of AI and design capabilities, augmenting traditional consulting to deliver superior value to our clients. Counting 3,000 consultants in 19 countries, we expect to achieve $420 million in revenue for the current fiscal year. With a global footprint and expertise in more than 30 sectors and services, we optimize client projects worldwide. Through our Consulting for Good approach, we strive for next-level impact by developing innovative CSR solutions for our clients, making sustainability a lever for profitable transformation.
Job Description
Contract roles are geared toward independent professionals interested in temporary or project-based work.
Sia Title: Project Consultant (Exempt Contractor)
Project Title: Technical Project Manager
Level: Mid-Senior
Project Length: This is a temporary position with an expected duration of 12 months plus (with potential extension)
Project Hours: 40 hours
Location: Hybrid; New York, NY
The expected compensation range for this contract is $184,000 to $194,000 per year. The exact pay rate will vary depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to skills, experience, and location.
Key Responsibilities: One of our premier clients is seeking a Technical Project Manager for a global, large scale and complex application migration project.
- Coordinates activities, resources, and information sharing ensuring the delivery of projects and key milestones. Involve the SMEs as needed.
- Manages and maintains the project work plan, schedule, risk / issues, and documentation utilizing project management tools and techniques.
- Makes certain that clients’ needs are met as projects evolve.
- Monitors, tracks, and reports on project’s progress.
- Proactively manages performance, cost, scope, schedule, quality, and other key project management activities.
- Identifies, manages, and escalates risks, issues and change requests to appropriate decision makers.
- Act as the point of contact and communicate project status and Key Performance Indicators adequately to all participants and stakeholders.
- Successfully manages projects’ numerous resources – including those functionally aligned as part of the project and organizationally aligned resources.
- Responsible for the end-to-end integration of various work streams to deliver the intended project solutions.
- Oversight/Manage/Lead project execution, integration, and implementation.
- Oversees periodic weekend project execution activities – every 6-8 weeks.
- Manage work stream and governance meetings, maintains meeting minutes and action item follow ups.
- 12 Month engagement, with a possibility of an additional extension (up to end of 2026)
Qualifications
- 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 ensures 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.
- 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.
Additional Information
At this time, Sia Partners does not intend to pursue employment with applicants who will require now or in the future visa sponsorship by our company for work authorization in the United States (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa, or any other non-immigrant status).
Project Consultant Benefits
- Statutory Time Off – Sick
- Medical, Dental, Vision: Eligible for Purchase Option
- 401(k) Participation: Eligible after one month of employment with matching and 100% vesting first day of participation
Our Commitment to Diversity
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are part of Sia Partners’ DNA. Thanks to our expertise in several sectors and our international growth, our teams include a variety of experiences and cultures. We’re confident that promoting DEIB creates an environment in which everyone can reach their full potential.
Our global network, DEIB@Sia Partners, brings together our people worldwide to facilitate local and global progress, focused on the following areas:
- Gender equality (global Gender Equality Index score of 91/100 for FY19-20)
- LGBTQ+
- Race & Ethnicity
- Working Parents
- Disabilities
Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.
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Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.
