Senior Project Manager (Hybrid)
St. Paul, MN
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Job Title: Senior Project Manager (Hybrid)
Location: St. Paul, MN
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description:
The Client is seeking one full-time Senior Project Manager to manage technical projects primarily within the Infrastructure, Network, and Security teams.
Projects include:
At a high level, the resource will provide project leadership for various projects within the Client
Project / Program Planning & Management:
Team Leadership:
Stakeholder Management:
Risk & Issue Management:
Budget & Resource Management:
Process Improvement:
Minimum Qualifications:
Desired Qualifications/Certifications:
Skills:
Location: St. Paul, MN
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description:
The Client is seeking one full-time Senior Project Manager to manage technical projects primarily within the Infrastructure, Network, and Security teams.
Projects include:
- Keep the Lights On (patching, certifications, lifecycle management, etc.)
- Infrastructure Special Projects (Terraform Infrastructure as Code Project)
At a high level, the resource will provide project leadership for various projects within the Client
Project / Program Planning & Management:
- Develop comprehensive project plans using Waterfall & Agile methodologies.
- Define scope, goals, deliverables, and timelines.
- Coordinate internal resources and third parties / vendors for execution of projects within baselines.
- Utilize departmental tools for project management, tracking, and reporting.
Team Leadership:
- Lead project teams and manage / coach junior project managers as appropriate to ensure service delivery.
- Support a collaborative and productive work and PMO team environment.
- Facilitate communication and coordination for projects / programs across cross-functional teams.
- Accountable to lead change management and conflict resolution efforts within assigned projects.
- Ensure teams have clear roles, responsibilities, and deliverables.
Stakeholder Management:
- Build strong stakeholder relationships to become a trusted advisor to project sponsors.
- Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and executive management in a timely manner to set expectations and escalate as appropriate.
- Ensure alignment of project objectives with business goals through stakeholder management activities.
Risk & Issue Management:
- Proactively identify, assess, and manage project / program risks and issues through mitigation planning.
- Monitor and report project / program progress and performance throughout delivery lifecycle.
Budget & Resource Management:
- Develop and manage project budgets, per governance requirements.
- Allocate resources effectively to ensure project success through demand management and capacity planning for projects / programs assigned.
- Monitor expenditures and ensure adherence to budget constraints.
- Transformation & Organizational Change Management:
- Lead transformation and change management scope within projects and programs as appropriate, to ensure solution adoption and process adherence.
Process Improvement:
- Support the evaluation and refinement of project management methodologies and processes.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives within the PMO
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging practices.
Minimum Qualifications:
- High school diploma or GED AND nine (9) years of experience managing multiple IT and business projects
- Note: Highest completed degree in the following majors: Computer Science, Business Management, or Project Management will count towards the minimum nine (9) years of required work experience.
- Associates degree counts as two years of experience
- Bachelor's degree or higher counts as four years of experience
- Note: Highest completed degree in the following majors: Computer Science, Business Management, or Project Management will count towards the minimum nine (9) years of required work experience.
- two (2) or more years in a lead role that required collaboration across multiple divisions with stakeholders from varying organizational levels.
- PMP or PgMP Certification
- CSM or SAFe Certification
- 2 years’ experience with MS Project
- 1 years’ experience with Azure Dev Ops
- 1 years’ experience with Jira
- 1 years’ experience with GitHub
Desired Qualifications/Certifications:
- CompTIA Security+
- Cisco (CCNP)
- Palo Alto Networks (PCNSE) or CISSP
- Azure Fundamentals – AZ-900
Skills:
- Experience with PPM tools
- Cybersecurity: CISSP, CISM
- Networking: CCNA, CCNP
- Infrastructure: ITIL, Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS)
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