Mid-Level Infrastructure Technical Project Manager
This role requires a special candidate who has a positive attitude integrated with a spectrum of skills – from leading large team meetings, to driving resolution of critical technical problems, to managing and collaborating with a diverse group of stakeholders. The management team of the company embraces change, cares about growing careers, and wants to hear your ideas.
Responsibilities:
The Technical Project Manager will be responsible for the following:
- Oversee in-house projects ensuring requirements are met, design reviews are held, budgets/timelines/priorities are respected, documentation is maintained, and final hand-offs with training are performed.
- Infrastructure (network, system, storage) project management for 8-10 projects is needed
- Attending project scoping meetings to gather technical requirements.
- Articulate project requirements to design engineers
- Understand key design concepts including latency, scalability, efficiency and failover
- Provide direction to resources, monitor development efforts, assemble key project deliverables, report project status, and raise awareness on issues requiring escalation.
- Facilitate communication and problem solving support across cross-functional teams/departments and provide information efficiently to all management levels on outstanding issues, project activities, and progress.
- Manage the overall project budget inclusive of labor expenses, capital costs, and proper forecasting to keep budget variances within tolerance.
- Bachelor's & Master Degree preferred
- Engineering technical background with at least 2-3 years of experience in IT Industry.
- 4-8 years of experience leading large scale service provider projects and cross functional teams
- PMP and/or Six Sigma certification is a substantial plus.
- Experience developing project schedules, managing team resources, creating work breakdown structures, estimating size and effort for new development projects, as well as develop detailed requirements for these projects.
- Must be extremely organized with the ability to articulate thoughts in a clear and concise manner; lead by positive example, possess excellent interpersonal skills to develop healthy trustful relationships with customers, vendors, superiors, peers, and subordinates alike.
- Must have practical experience with managing technology projects and be familiar with software development methodologies.
- Experience with Agile SCRUM Development
- IT Technology certifications a definite advantage (CISCO, Microsoft, CompTIA, VMWare, SAN/NAS, Oracle)
- Proficient with productivity tools: MS Office Project, Visio, Word, Excel, Outlook, and Jira
This opportunity is a Long Term Contract
