Full Job Description
Job DescriptionOur direct financial services client has an opening for a Technical Project Manager in Montreal, Canada.
Description:
This position is for a Technical Project Manager role, and the ideal candidate will have had hands-on, large scale (5,000+ sq. ft.) datacenter build-out, infrastructure deployment and migration experience.
The consultant will be performing project support for a specific datacenter build program that involves build and migration activity in multiple locations.
The Technical Project Manager for this role:
• Is a project stakeholder, and partners with engineering and operations teams across technology disciplines for success
• Is a team player with a high level of commitment and enthusiasm
• Shapes strategy
• Has excellent project scheduling and estimation skills
• Creates the project plan
• Gathers and documents requirements
• Matrix-manages core project team
• Executes plan where applicable
• Schedules work and negotiates work windows where applicable
• Monitors scheduled work where applicable
• Escalates technical and procedural issues where applicable
• Defines/revises operational processes where applicable
• Defines/revises policies where applicable
• Delivers management reports and presentations
• Creates and/or updates technical documentation where applicable
• Is responsible for budgeting/cost analysis/funding requests
• Is responsible for resource planning where applicable
• Is responsible for data analysis where applicable
• Is responsible for cross-disciplinary coordination
• Leads project roadshows and technology forums where applicable
• Helps manage Business Unit communication where applicable
• Maintains precise, accurate and timely meeting documentation to fulfill audit and regulatory requirements
Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS (Required):
• College graduate with extensive experience (at least 10 years) managing complex/large IT projects
• Large-scale datacenter (5,000+ sq. ft.) build-out experience
• Windows and Linux infrastructure deployment experience
• SAN and NAS infrastructure deployment experience
• Network infrastructure deployment experience
• Proficiency in standard business productivity tools (MS Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint)
• Proficiency in standard project management tools (MS Project, Visio, Excel)
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Well versed in the project lifecycle and Project Management methodologies
• Ability to work in a geographically dispersed team, self-starter
• Display strong leadership skills, with a proven track record of leading projects at times of change
• Able to demonstrate bringing teams together toward a common goal who are not directly reporting to the project manager
• Able to demonstrate the ability to work in a high pressure environment while juggling multiple tasks
• Demonstrate good time management, ability to prioritize tasks and to meet deadlines across multiple projects
• Possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to communicate at all levels and influence others
• Thorough knowledge of PMI approach and application in industry
• Education Level: Bachelor's Degree.
NO THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES PERMITTED.
PLEASE RESPOND ONLY IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY ELIGIBLE TO WORK IN CANADA.