Senior Technical Project Manager

Job Description:

Position Overview:

The Senior Technical Project Manager will work closely with the Parametric Infrastructure Program Manager, the Company’s Cloud Enablement to support program growth, uphold project management principles in a newly established team and deliver cross-functional infrastructure projects to completion.

Key strengths include:
– stakeholder management with effective communication and ability to develop strong professional relationships,
– risk management understanding the US financial services environment,
– heavy focus on prioritization,
– passion for agile/scrum methodology.
– proven track record of taking on end-to-end ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment.
Project technologies primarily include public cloud, on-premises or hosted IT infrastructure and application support.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Oversee program/project portfolio for multiple business centers, working closely with the Program Manager and stakeholders to align business objectives, strategies, and delivery requirements.

• Develop project plans, specifications, and other related project administration tasks.

• Manage a backlog of work.

• Gather and document technical, functional, and business requirements.

• Track project status for all legacy application projects for Parametric, identifying potential delays and risks and communicating project status on a timely and regular basis.

• Participate and lead complex project planning sessions; comfortable applying both waterfall and Agile methodologies.

• Manage and monitor project issues, risks, budget, and escalations.

• Work with the project teams to improve processes and remove roadblocks.

Qualifications:

• 5+years of experience building and leading agile teams to deliver effective enterprise solutions preferably in financial services organization.

• Experience with leading, managing and participating in cross-functional IT, Infrastructure, Cloud projects.

• Deep understanding of IT infrastructure domains: cloud, networking, storage, virtualization, high availability, and disaster recovery.

• Effective communication and leadership skills that produce effective and collaborative cross-functional teams.

• Highly tuned process analysis and problem-solving skills.

• Experience in small, mid, and large-scale project management, including the management of project teams.

• Ability to deliver under stress in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment.

• In-depth experience with Jira and Confluence; knowledge and workflow management.

Desired

Skills:

• PMP, CSM certifications strongly preferred

• Leadership experience as a Project Manager or roles in similar capacity

• Strong experience managing AWS or Azure projects

• Passion for people, learning and innovation

• Process driven and structured