Sr Project Manager / Program Manager ( Data center infrastructure migration )

IT Associates is a billion dollar Managed Service Provider specializing in data center infrastructure. The Expert Project Manager will oversee large, complex data center migration projects, ensuring adherence to stakeholder specifications and managing relationships with client sponsors and internal leaders.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with stakeholders to:
• Ensure business requirements are clearly defined, understood and documented
• Define the scope, risks, potential issues and resources of the project
• Ensure benefits can be realized while managing the impact of the organizational change to the business and clients
• Develops phases of the program and interprets them into a measurable project plan(s)
• Communicates both internally and externally regarding delivery of work products and services, planning efforts, personnel relationships with other organization and resources
• Manages the program and projects adhering to PMO project management methodology
• Manages program and project scope in terms of mission, objectives, and requirements
• Manages program and project schedule in terms of dates and milestones
• Ensures effective team identification of program and project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies; acts as an escalation point for the team and implements effective mitigation strategies by taking corrective action to achieve resolution project goals
• Provides leadership and strategic direction to the project team
• Oversees the various work streams of activities in the project, including timeline, quality of work, risks, issue escalations, and collaboration amongst the various stakeholders
• Works with all stakeholders to ensure governance is in place and a continuous improvement/ transformation plan is in place
• Establishes deadlines, assigns tasks and monitors and summarizes progress of projects making up the program
• Develops business insights based on analysis of results and communicates key findings to various members of management to facilitate data-driven decision-making
• Works with management to secure appropriate resources and people to complete assigned projects on time and within budget
• Appropriately escalate barriers, issues and risks to meeting timelines and deliverables
• Manages the development of polished executive-level presentations; delivers information to internal business associates and external clients in a clear and concise fashion
• Manages the program and project status reporting according to prescribed timelines for a given project
• Develops measurement processes/methods for assessing progress towards goals and project outcomes
• Manage costs and budget
• Facilitate cross-training to ensure job rotation and minimize assignment coverage gap
• Provide coaching and performance feedback to all team members

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 10 years of complex IT program and project management experience
• IT outsourcing knowledge
• Experience with running projects in Infrastructure /Data center migration of open systems / distributed and Mainframe systems to on-prem or cloud
• Strong Financial Management Skills
• Efficient team management skills
• Strong Leadership skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment
• Project Management Institute PMP
• ITIL knowledge or certification
• ITSM knowledge or certification
• Project financial / revenue recognition experience