Project Manager (Migration)
LOCATIONS BY PREFERENCE:
1. Most Preferred Pittsburgh, PA, 15222
2. Second Preferred Strongsville, OH, 44136 / Dallas, TX, 75234 / Birmingham, AL, 35233 / Phoenix, AZ, 85016
WORK ARRANGEMENT: 5 days onsite
Pay Rate: $45 to 50/hr. on W2 ONLY
ACCEPTABLE TIME ZONE(S): EST; Flexibility to be discussed
SCHEDULE: M-F 8-5 EST; Possible weekend work- Cutover events happen on weekends and that will likely be two weeks a month starting in February and going to for the next two years.
OT: Likely, based on weekend work. Some time may be flexed rather than OT based on workload volume.
LENGTH OF ASSIGNMENT: 1-2 Years Contract to Hire role.
FUNCTION OF THE GROUP: We just stood up a transformational management office. Taking all the large and small programs that impact every line of business, we are adding standardization and best practices to them. For data center migration, every line of business has applications that they own. We give them repeatable steps, and we manage and report on them to those steps.
ROLE/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Managing applications as they progress through the migration factory to move to the new data centers.
We are looking for a PM skillset We are entering a data center migration. We re taking all the applications at the bank and taking them out of the data centers that they are currently in, lining them up to technology standards that CTO has set and then helping them migrate over to the new data centers that are currently being built out.
Providing the business with repeatable steps, managing and reporting on them through those steps.
There are also custom tasks that must happen depending on the technology that they re dealing with. Essentially takin what is standard across the board for all 800 or so applications and figuring out how do we guide them through the factory and standardize them to the same steps to make things easier and allow other teams to perform their transformation activities.
PM Skill set, Familiarity with technology and the process of building out an application is a bonus, someone who understands that there are teams that are going to want to do things their own way, but they're that s no longer an option. The bank is holding our teams to standards. They are not the people who need to know every standard, though they will get familiar with them throughout the 2-year program.
Responsibility is more on raising blockers, so blockers when things have slowed down the applications migration, and they are the ones who know the process and know the ins and outs of the application. The contractors will be wave managers who will parter with those on the reporting side. There will be some reporting needs, joining meetings and speaking to the health of the wave (meaning are they going to meet the migration cutover date?) ---
MUST HAVE SKILLS (3-6 years of experience):
1. Someone who has managed large-scale IT infrastructure transformation or application migration programs rather than someone whose experience is limited to administrative project coordination.
2. Coordinating cross-functional technology teams.
3. Project governance and executive status reporting.
4. Stakeholder communication and escalation.
5. Risk, issue, and blocker management.
6. Milestone, dependency, and schedule management.
7. Managing multiple projects, workstreams, or application portfolios.
8. Application migration or data center migration.
9. Infrastructure or technology transformation programs.
10. Enterprise IT project management.
11. Prior client or Banking Background Required.
FLEX SKILLS:
1. JIRA,
2. Power BI reporting,
3. Clarizen,
4. Familiarity with technology and the process of building out an application is a bonus.
5. Basic ability to identify, interpret and evaluate system and network requirements.
INTERVIEW PROCESS: 1st round with hiring manager and 2nd round with the team member who will be leading these contractors.
STACK RANKING (ORDER OF PREFERENCE):
1. Skills 2. Former Client / Rate 3. Location