IT Project Manager

Job#: 3038705

Job Description:

Position Summary

The IT Project Manager is responsible for planning, executing, and delivering complex technology projects, with a focus on mainframe-based applications and enterprise systems. This role leads cross-functional technical teams and ensures projects are completed on time, within scope, and aligned with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive collaboration across business and IT teams to ensure successful solution delivery
• Drive planning to ensure a realistic plan is built to achieve the desired endstate.
• Constantly monitor team progress against the plan and engage timely to remove blockers, address and communicate issues, and recommend corrective actions and workarounds based on team engagement.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of IT projects, including planning, execution, monitoring, and closure
• Manage cross-functional technical teams, including developers, analysts, infrastructure resources, and vendors
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, budgets, and resource allocations
• Coordinate and communicate project activities, progress, and risks to stakeholders and leadership
• Ensure adherence to SDLC methodologies, project management standards, and governance frameworks
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, issues, and dependencies
• Facilitate requirements gathering and translate business needs into technical deliverables
• Oversee project documentation, reporting, and metrics tracking
• Support continuous improvement of project management processes and tools

Required Qualifications

• Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Proven experience leading technical project teams in an IT environment
• 5+ years of experience managing IT projects, including multiple concurrent initiatives
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches)
• Experience delivering projects across the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Demonstrated ability to manage scope, schedule, cost, and quality outcomes
• Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, Jira, or similar)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing mainframe application projects (e.g., COBOL, CICS, DB2 environments)
• Familiarity with legacy system modernization or mainframe integration initiatives
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise or regulated environments
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or similar certification
• Experience coordinating with offshore or distributed teams

Key Competencies

• Leadership and team facilitation
• Strategic thinking and problem solving
• Risk management and decision-making
• Organizational and multitasking skills
• Effective verbal and written communication

Work Environment / Expectations

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• May require collaboration across geographically distributed teams
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project needs

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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Employee Type:

Contract

Remote:

Yes

Location:

Ridgeland, MS, US

Job Type:

Date Posted:

June 17, 2026

Pay Range:

$70 - $80 per hour

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