TEKsystems is a leading provider of business and technology services, and they are seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to join their Sustainability Management Action & Response Team (SMART). The role involves managing large-scale end-of-life IT projects, engaging cross-functional teams, and driving sustainability initiatives within a dynamic financial services environment.
Responsibilities:
- Manage large scale end of life projects. (ie. End of Life for an applications. What extended support is needed? Remediate teams) Own the Project Management and clear any road blocks)
- Conduct application architecture assessments and help define solutions for complex problems
- Design/customize and execute migration workflows
- Maintain focus on project risks and interdependencies across the life cycle, making contingency plans to proactively address concerns that pose risk to budget, schedule, and scope
- Engage cross-functional stakeholders across multiple business units and application areas for problem solving, short-and long-term technology solutions, and risk mitigation activities
- Drive results and resolve issues including the ability to assess and course correct, as necessary
- Display strong organizational skills with diligence evidenced through sound analytical skills
- Display strong initiative, addressing issues without prompting
- Assist in preparing presentations and presents to leadership and stakeholders
- Ability to work across organizations and through obstacles
Requirements:
- 10+ years' experience in managing multiple medium-to-large scale IT Infrastructure and/or Application projects / programs collaborating with cross functional teams in the financial services industry
- Persuasive communication and interpersonal skills; good consensus builder
- Outstanding collaborative skills and ability to interface across organizational levels and cultures
- Ability to develop and leverage relationships
- Strong drive for results; able to meet tight deadlines in a fluid, challenging environment
- Capable of executing short-term (tactical) and long term (strategic) plans
- Excellent customer focus, with experience effectively managing matrix relationships
- Skill at resolving conflict and negotiating effectively and tactfully
- Proven history of time-management, leadership, and people skills
- Ability to multi-task and comfortable working with ambiguity at times
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certifications is a plus