Project Manager - Infrastructure

Senior Project Manager

Our Financial Services Client is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join their team. The Senior Project Manager will support the Infrastructure book of work, including enterprise level initiatives and priorities. This senior PM role will be responsible for developing, implementing, and executing the delivery plans for Infrastructure initiatives and work streams.

Location:

Irving, TX, Charlotte, NC, Minneapolis, MN or Jersey City, NJ

Length: 1 year +

Hybrid - 3 days/week onsite

This is a highly experienced program management/execution professional with a deep understanding of enterprise technologies and its application in financial services vertical, with the ability to effectively communicate technical delivery to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Required/Desired

Experience:

• Strong experience in business transformation, simplification, and modernization with a get stuff done attitude and drive cultural change.
• Experience managing in a complex, matrixed environment and comfortable leading and executing through influence.
• A can-do attitude and an agent to drive velocity and change.
• Agile & iterative delivery and tools expertise for complex, enterprise-wide initiatives (i.e., Jira and Confluence).
• Deep expertise in strategic problem-solving and project management.
• Translating technical delivery into actionable communication for senior stakeholders.
• Infrastructure experience with Data Center build out, Neighborhoods, cloud migration, app modernization/transformation and executive communications.
• Subject matter knowledgeable in two or more technical areas – Change Integration/Change Delivery, Dev Ops, Infrastructure-As-Code, x86/ARM/GPU, Container/K8, Virtual Machines, Networking, DMZ, Databases, Storage, Messaging Middleware, API Gateways, Batch/ETL, Data Lake House, AI/ML, Mainframe, Public Cloud.
• Experience strategically engaging with all levels of professionals and managers across multiple lines of businesses and serve as an experienced advisor to leadership.
• Highly effective and proven consultative leader with strong business and data-driven acumen, to drive continuous improvement in a data-driven way.

Functional

Skills:

• Connect the dots across work streams and always be on the lookout for opportunities to improve process, remove friction and transform the business.
• Planning and change management across project scope, timeline, and resources (specific to work stream and factory).
• Drive execution/workplan management of work stream/factory objectives.
• Maintain work stream milestones and dependencies.
• Manage and control the work stream critical path.
• Develop communication plan aligned with the program communications team.
• Host regular meetings with partners to understand milestones, tasks, risks, and issues.
• Document and drive action items or issues/risk mitigation as they arise.
• Execute impact analysis for key milestones/outcomes At-Risk or Off-Track and Develop and monitor Go to Green plans.
• Align with PMO and manage all compliance requirements for the work stream.