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Information Technology - Project Manager (IT)

Tellus Solutions

  • Chicago, IL
  • 7 days ago

    Highlights

    Provide structured project management leadership by establishing governance, ensuring clear roles and responsibilities for all project team members, defining phases, and identifying deliverables/milestones. Experience leading infrastructure technology projects and leading teams to execute highly complex initiatives of significant scope, scale, and risk.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationChicago, IL

    Description

    Responsibilities
    • Project Leadership & Delivery
    • Lead project team to successfully deliver project objectives and benefits, providing required oversight to ensure control of scope, schedule, resources, and cost
    • Provide structured project management leadership by establishing governance, ensuring clear roles and responsibilities for all project team members, defining phases, and identifying deliverables/milestones
    • Develop project plans, provide executional leadership, and track progress on project goals
    • Identify and manage areas of risk and dependencies, including contingency planning and developing project health restoration plans
    • Ensure adherence to NT project standards, IT controls, risk, and regulatory requirements
    • Provide timely communications on project status and health including scope, schedule, resource, and/or budget, as well as articulate key risks/issues and associated impacts
    • Manage stakeholder expectations and motivate project team
    • Partner with stakeholders to plan for and manage project resources
    • Facilitate discussions and working sessions across the various teams involved in the project
    • Establish and execute against project communication plans
    • Escalate in a timely manner to the appropriate party(ies) to address decisions needed, the removal of roadblocks and other obstacles or constraints
    Required Skills:
    • Level 3 — minimum of 7+ years' experience
    • Experience leading infrastructure technology projects and leading teams to execute highly complex initiatives of significant scope, scale, and risk
    • Program/project management expertise including working knowledge and application of Waterfall, Hybrid, and/or Agile methodologies
    • Skillful in adopting corporate project management standards (incorporating PMI standards), IT controls, risk, and regulatory requirements
    • Demonstrated ability leading multiple concurrent projects
    • Results-oriented with a bias for action and execution
    • Sound problem-solving and analytical skills
    • Adept at navigating a matrixed environment; ability to influence, inform, and collaborate with all levels of the organization
    • Strong communication skills to effectively share information, collaborate, and drive results
    • Ability to easily process information from various sources and simplify the complex
    • Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
    • Self-starter with ability to operate in a fast-paced environment and manage ambiguity
    • Thrives in a team environment and works well with others
    • General familiarity with infrastructure technology (Servers / Storage / Network / Database / Middleware)
    • Familiarity with PPM Tools such as Clarity, and other tools including ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.
    • Solid working knowledge of MS Office Suite including MS Project, SharePoint, and Teams
    Nice to Haves:
    • Experience in a large financial services firm or highly regulated industry
    • Experience leading application development initiatives
    • Network project experience
    Required Education:
    • Bachelors Degree
    Required Certification:
    • PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) or Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP)

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