Senior Project Manager – Infrastructure

JobTitle: Senior Project Manager – Infrastructure

Client Industry: Information Technology

Loation: New York, NY

Job Status: Full-time (40 hours per week on-site) schedule on a Contract

Position Summary:

Our client is looking for a Senior Project Manager that will manage information technology projects. This role will focus on technology solution delivery projects. Examples include network infrastructure implementations/upgrades, enterprise systems build-out/integration, Data Center Services, Information Security solutions. The Project Manager will serve as an influential leader by demonstrating PM professionalism, passion, providing communication/motivation and creating teamwork and collaboration. The Project Manager will also work closely with the technical managers in different functional areas to document, communicate and manage the resolution of project-related technical issues.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of technology project management and project lifecycles by effectively initiating, planning, executing and controlling multiple high profile, high priority projects at the same time.
• Preparation/coordination for project phase gates. For example, business cases to support our client requests for funding
• Create and maintain project schedules. Identify and monitor overall project timeline, project milestones, tasks, budget, resources, task dependencies, and critical paths.
• Collaborate with different IT departments to ensure proper resource alignment and successful project delivery.
• Manage issues and risk prevention/mitigation by anticipating and identifying risks and issues that may impact timeline, deliverables and service quality. Develop, communicate and implement mitigation plan and corrective action(s).
• Conduct regular team status meetings and stakeholder meetings. Communicate with different levels of the IT staff and leadership teams by providing program/project status and executive reports.

Minimum Skills, Knowledge and Ability Requirements:

• 7+ years experience in overall project management and/or program management
• 5+ years of project management experience, with Infrastructure experience preferred
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications
• Proficient with Project Management tools (ex. Workfront/@task)
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Ability to adopt project management best practices and help improve the processes.
• Ability to build relationships with and influence other functional areas.
• Ability to step into projects already in progress.
• Ability to define and manage business and technical requirements.
• Excellent organization and time management skills. Operates independently with minimal guidance by management; adapts well to change.
• Problem-solving skills with the ability to perform root cause analysis.
• Extensive experience in meeting planning, facilitation and documentation. Ability to communicate with and present to senior management/executives.
• Ability to have a big-picture orientation, as well as to see the details.
• Experience with PM tools such as @Task or Workfront a plus.
• Project management experience in Cloud migration.
• Consulting experience.
• Agile certification.

*** Ability to work onsite 5 days per week. The candidate will often have to spend time at our Brooklyn location.