Sr. IT Project Manager (Mainframe Modernization)

Mindlance is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead complex enterprise initiatives for its Enterprise Project Management Office. The role focuses on governing and coordinating mainframe modernization and stability activities across technical, operational, vendor, and application teams, while managing risks, tracking actions, and preparing executive-level reporting.

Responsibilities:

• 30% – Forum Governance and Execution: Own the planning, facilitation, documentation, and follow-up for the Mainframe Workload and Stability Forum. Establish agendas, capture decisions, maintain action trackers, confirm owners and due dates, and ensure recurring cadence with clear operating discipline
• 25% – Mainframe Stability and Workload Coordination: Coordinate across mainframe systems, DB2, operations, infrastructure, application, performance, and vendor teams to track workload constraints, recurring incidents, capacity issues, performance trends, remediation plans, and operational dependencies
• 20% – Risk, Issue, and Action Management: Maintain a centralized risk and issue log for workload and stability concerns. Drive timely follow-up on open items, escalate blockers, validate closure evidence, and ensure risks are communicated clearly to leadership before they become delivery or production impacts
• 15% – Executive Reporting and Stakeholder Communication: Prepare concise executive summaries, forum readouts, status updates, dashboards, and decision logs that communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and required leadership actions in a clear and outcome-focused manner
• 10% – Process Improvement and Operating Model Maturity: Identify opportunities to strengthen forum discipline, improve intake and prioritization, standardize reporting, clarify accountability, and increase transparency across mainframe stability and workload management activities

Requirements:

• • 8+ years of experience in technical project management, infrastructure project delivery, IT operations governance, systems engineering coordination, or enterprise technology program management
• • Strong experience managing cross-functional technical forums, operational review cadences, action-item tracking, issue/risk management, and executive-level reporting
• • Experience working with mainframe, DB2, enterprise database, infrastructure, production support, incident/problem management, or mission-critical operations environments
• • Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical issues into clear business impacts, decisions needed, and actionable next steps for leadership audiences
• • Strong organizational discipline with proven ability to manage multiple workstreams, dependencies, stakeholders, and deadlines
• • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare concise meeting recaps, status reports, decision logs, and escalation summaries
• • Experience using collaboration and tracking tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, SharePoint, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, or equivalent enterprise tools
• Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
• Education Details: Health Informatics, Information Technology, Information Systems or related discipline
• Experience: 5 years experience leading projects in a cross-functional, technical systems implementation
• In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience
• • Experience supporting mainframe modernization, mainframe workload management, DB2 z/OS, DB2 LUW, capacity planning, performance tuning, or production stability initiatives
• • Experience coordinating with managed service providers, infrastructure vendors, engineering teams, application teams, and operations teams in a highly regulated enterprise environment
• • Understanding of ITIL practices, including incident, problem, change, release, and service management processes
• • Experience building executive dashboards, operational scorecards, RAID logs, action trackers, and recurring governance packages
• • PMP, Scrum Master, ITIL, or related project/program management certification preferred
• • Healthcare payer, federal program, financial services, or other regulated industry experience preferred
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI Pref