Project Manager - Infrastructure

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Job description

Title: Project Manager - Infrastructure

Location: Folsom, N, 08037

Position: 6 months

Summary

Candidates with deep experience in managing Infrastructure projects. Router/switch/datacenter upgrades, network projects, VDI, DNS, firewalls, load balancers, etc. The ideal candidate would have both the IT infrastructure experience, as well as experience with facilities renovations. If the candidate has DR experience as well, that would obviously be great too.

Roles & Responsibilities

The Project Manager has primary responsibility for managing the Planning and Execution efforts for a set of assigned projects.

Responsible for managing the complete life cycle of highly complex internal projects, including approval, planning, execution, and closeout to ensure planned results are achieved on time and budget

Develop comprehensive schedule and drives progress to plan, proactively managing changes

Work with vendors and team to establish and achieve project goals

Ensure that requirements are properly articulated, prioritized and detailed on roadmaps and backlogs

Identify projects issues, gaps, conflicts, and propose solutions

Track critical project deliverables with core team and facilitates solutions when issues arise

Work as the liaison between clients, business leads, functional leads, SME's (subject matter experts), application analysts, developers and other technical team members to assist and document solutions to complex business problems

Address problems through risk management and contingency planning and presents solutions and/or options to executive management. Ensures effective implementation of solutions/changes

Facilitate and leads large project meetings to drive delivery.

May act as a Subject Matter Expert in a given area of the organization and provides guidance as needed

Oversee the development of documentation writing and gathering in accordance with policy and SOX auditing compliance

Act as a single point of contact for project status. Maintains communication with stakeholders.

Recommend new solutions and projects in alignment with strategic plans and business requirements

Demonstrate consistent exercise of independent judgment

Ability to communicate complicated technical concepts to non-technical Clients

Write and present effective communications to business sponsors and end-users

Demonstrate critical thinking, problem solving ability and initiative

Dedicated to continuous process improvement through feedback loops, coaching, retrospectives, and individual improvement

Minimum Qualifications

A four-year Bachelors' degree in Business, Computer Sciences or related field. Significant experience may be substituted for the educational requirement.

PMI(Project Management Institute) Certification desired

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with and knowledge of Enterprise Business Systems

Knowledge of Windows-based hardware and software applications required

MSOffice Suite, Visio, MS Project, Gantt Charts or other project management tools

Excellent communication and analytical skills required

Excellent client relations and customer services skills required

SDLC(Software Development Life Cycle) best practices

PMO(Project Management Office) best practices

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