Sr. IT Project Manager

Job Title

Sr. IT Project Manager

Franklin Lakes, NJ

12+ Months (12 month contract)

Weekly 40.00 Hours [Mon - Fri]

The candidate will be leading one or several work streams of the Data Center Consolidation Program. The candidate will be on site Monday through Friday, working with project teams and stakeholders. The role may require less than 10% domestic travel.

Must have excellent command of the English language (oral and written). This person may need to present to Executive level leadership.

Looking for someone who can lead; not someone who waits to be led.

• Develop a Data Center consolidation plan, timeline, and dependencies for one or all data centers, along with all associated documentation in a common repository (meeting minutes, decisions, sign offs, etc).
• Facilitate workshops for gathering requirements and putting together the plan and resources.
• Manage and control project delivery teams and vendors to meet project deadlines, escalating issues for appropriate timely resolution, and adhering to Project Management Office (“PMO”) methodologies.
• Provide continuous risk management enabling proactive decisions and actions to mitigate project scope and schedule overages.
• Facilitate communications and presentations and keep work progress up to date across key stakeholders to meet timely attainment of project milestones.

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 10+ years of Project/Program Management experience.
• Very Strong SDLC/Waterfall knowledge and WBS Skillset of SDLC.
• Windows Server environments (cloud, virtual, and physical).
• Network basics LAN/WAN and components (i.e., switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers).
• Security basics including antivirus, security and event monitoring, intrusion prevention.
• Disaster recovery (DR) services or business continuity.
• Data center, application, server migrations.
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills with significant direct interface with vendors and senior executives.
• Communication – demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills.
• Experience in Microsoft Project (project planning and tracking), Power Point (status reports and presentations), RAID logs.

• PMP/ PgMP Certification.
• Experience in a medical/regulated environment.
• Service Now (status reporting).