- Plan, coordinate, and track the project activities for initiatives of supported customer groups in compliance with IT enterprise and the Program Management Office (PMO) standards.
- Manage small, medium, and large projects related to exiting the mainframe.
- Assist in planning and organizing resources from across all Technology areas along with the Business to achieve Project objectives.
- Establish procedures and processes for project activities.
- Create monitor and maintain projects in project management software including managing project plan tasking, assignments, and testing coordination.
- Assist with guiding the team through all phases of the project life cycle.
- Coordinate the activities of the project team with other departments, business partners, and vendors.
- Ensure adherence to enterprise standards and review project deliverables.
- Responsibilities include budget compliance, maintaining risk/issues list and priorities, and conducting regular status/support meetings with stakeholders.
- 10+ years of prior experience in leading IT projects
- Knowledge of project management methods – agile, waterfall, hybrid
- Ideally direct end to end support of a major mainframe migration to a cloud environment is preferred, but cloud specific migration support is a preferred at least
- Excellent oral and written communications, interpersonal, negotiation, project planning, judgment, leadership, decision-making, analysis, and problem-solving skills
- Detail oriented, self-starter, motivated professional.
- Collaborative/influential interpersonal skills; ability to lead without authority
- Expert-level skills in facilitating meetings, managing client relationships, and keeping teams, managers, and customers apprised of status, changes, resolutions, and successes
- Microsoft Office skills (including Microsoft Project and Excel)
- Project management software skills; preferred – MS Project, CA Clarity, Smartsheets, or other PPM
- Technical familiarity with cloud migrations.
- Technical familiarity with mainframe strongly preferred.
- Experience analyzing, designing, and implementing technology solutions
- Reporting and Analytics – Level of expertise with advanced Excel functions (Lookups, charting/graphing, or PowerBI and analytics)
Senior Information Technology Project Manager - Jacksonville, United States - Brooksource
Description
Senior Project Manager
8 Month Contract (Strong possibility for extension)
Location: Jacksonville, FL (Requires 2 days a week onsite, hybrid remote options)
Brooksource is currently looking for a Senior Project Manager to support our Fortune 500 client: a leading rail-based freight transportation and logistics company in North America. This individual will be the Project Manager and main driver of an enterprise-wide exit of the mainframe IT initiative. This individual will sit within the PMO and be attached to proper IT governance practices. If you are a Senior Project Manager that has had proven success working on high-visibility, digital transformation related projects, apply today
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