Overview:We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead and deliver complex technology projects that align both IT tactical and strategic requirements. Leads cross-functional technical teams and manages vendor relationships to ensure successful execution. Applies advanced project management methodologies to manage risk, track performance, and ensure delivery quality.
The position is best suited to a project manager experienced with both application development & infrastructure projects who can operate effectively in ambiguous environments, establish governance, challenge incomplete requirements, and guide projects from initial request, assessment and strategy through design, procurement, deployment, migration, commissioning, and operational handover.
This role is responsible for translating business and technical requirements into executable infrastructure strategies, coordinating cross-functional engineering and operational teams, and maintaining control of scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, and stakeholder expectations. The successful candidate will combine strong technical knowledge of data center, network, security, compute, storage, virtualization, and disaster-recovery environments with senior-level program leadership.
Must be able to Demonstrate:- Achievement of program milestones within approved scope, schedule, and budget.
- Quality and completeness of infrastructure requirements and delivery plans.
- Timely identification and mitigation of program risks and dependencies.
- Accuracy and transparency of executive reporting.
- Successful completion of either infrastructure or application production cutovers.
- Reduction of unplanned scope changes and unresolved design gaps.
- Stakeholder confidence and effectiveness of cross-functional coordination.
- Vendor performance and contractual compliance.
- Operational readiness and successful transition to support teams.
- Delivery of measurable improvements in infrastructure resilience, scalability, capacity, security, cost, or service performance.
Required Skill Sets:- Active PMP & ITIL, certified with 7+ years of relevant project management experience, managing technical & cross-functional business projects and teams in a variety of computing environments (i.e. SaaS, cloud, etc.)
- 5+ years of experience converting high level business needs/requirements into system requirements
- Advanced knowledge of project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, SAFe, SDLC, ITIL) and their application in enterprise IT environments.
- Significant experience in delivering complex IT projects involving infrastructure, application & product development, cybersecurity, or regulatory compliance
- Proven ability to develop and execute project roadmaps, schedules, and resource plans aligned with technical and business goals
- Experience with meeting compliance with regulatory requirements, security policies, and governance standards. (FedRamp, NIST, SOC, Etc,)
- Experience with active-active data center architectures and large-scale application migrations. Lead infrastructure assessments to evaluate current-state architecture, operational maturity, service resilience, capacity, technical debt, and business-continuity risks.
- Experience leading data center consolidation, migration, modernization, or major infrastructure deployment initiatives.
- Coordinate the development and review of high-level data center infrastructure architecture and design requirements.
- Familiarity with IT service management, business continuity, disaster recovery, ERP, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
- Proven ability to lead technical teams, manage vendor relationships, and ensure alignment with business and technical requirements. Experience coordinating architects, engineers, facilities teams, operations personnel, application owners, vendors, and executive stakeholders.
- Advanced skills in project analytics, reporting, and performance tracking using tools such as Jira, Power BI, and ServiceNow
- Expert knowledge of IT systems, architecture, and compliance frameworks, with the ability to communicate risks and strategies to leadership
- Experience with managing stakeholder engagement and change initiatives across technical and business domains
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Project Management, or related field, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
- Clearly communicate complex technical issues to executive, business, operational, and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Experience working with colocation providers, engineering consultants, general contractors, cloud providers, and managed-service organizations.
- Establish and maintain program governance, reporting, escalation, decision-making, and change-control processes.
- Track schedule, budget, scope, quality, resource capacity, benefits realization, and operational-readiness indicators. Maintain integrated RAID logs covering risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and decisions.
- Prepare executive-level reports, decision papers, program dashboards, and recommendations.
- Escalate unresolved risks, scope conflicts, budget pressures, resource constraints, and delivery concerns in a timely manner.
- Facilitate steering committees, design reviews, readiness reviews, risk workshops, and executive decision meetings.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams without relying solely on direct reporting authority.
- Mentor project managers, technical leads, analysts, and other program team members
- Establish Operational Rigor: Define and drive program management best practices, including objectives and key results OKRs and execution roadmaps, to ensure engineering delivery aligns with long-term product strategy.
- Experience designing and implementing IAM integrations, provisioning workflows, and access controls.
Preferred Qualifications:- Master's degree in information technology, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent combination of training, education, and experience
- Professional Certifications (e.g., CAPM, CSM, PMI- ACP, PgMP, SAFe Practitioner, or Cloud (AWS/Azure) certifications).
- Experience with full lifecycle implementation and upgrades for financial systems like ERP, billing, and general ledger platforms
- Strong knowledge of data center architecture, enterprise network infrastructure, cybersecurity, compute, storage, virtualization, and disaster-recovery concepts.
- Evaluate program alternatives and clearly communicate cost, schedule, risk, operational, and technical tradeoffs to leadership.
- Maintain accountability for overall program performance while coordinating multiple projects, vendors, and technical disciplines.
- Ensure that compute, storage, virtualization, network, cybersecurity, facilities, cloud, and application requirements are incorporated into the overall solution.
- Facilitate technical alignment among data center architects, facilities engineers, network and security teams, platform teams, application owners, operations, and external consultants.
- Support active-active, primary-secondary, disaster-recovery, high-performance computing, and critical-production infrastructure strategies.
- Review design assumptions for availability, scalability, maintainability, redundancy, recoverability, capacity, and operational readiness.
- Identify infrastructure dependencies and integration requirements across network, security, compute, storage, application, and facility environments.
- Support the development of migration architectures, sequencing plans, coexistence strategies, rollback plans, and cutover requirements.
- Develop and govern migration frameworks for critical applications, infrastructure platforms, and data center services.
- Coordinate application discovery, dependency mapping, migration-wave planning, readiness reviews, cutover execution, rollback planning, and post-migration validation.
- Ensure infrastructure, network, security, operations, facilities, and application teams are aligned before migration or production activation.
- Establish formal entry and exit criteria for design, build, testing, commissioning, migration, and operational handover phases.
- Provide program-level oversight for enterprise data center network and security architecture.
- Coordinate LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, software-defined networking, routing, firewall, remote-access, and unified-communications workstreams.
- Ensure cybersecurity, governance, risk, and compliance requirements are incorporated into program planning and design decisions.
- Guide technical teams in evaluating infrastructure standards, technology lifecycles, automation opportunities, and future-state roadmaps.
Tools & Platforms:Jira/Azure DevOps, Confluence/SharePoint, Visio/Lucid, SQL tools, Postman; basics of Control-M; cloud endpoints on Azure or AWS.
CertificationsPMP, ITIL, Certified ScrumMaster, PMI-ACP, CISM or technical certifications in AWS, Azure, or DevOps
Skills:IT Infrastructure Management,SDLC,PMP,ITIL Certified,Cloud,SaaS,JIRA,ServiceNow,Project Management
