IT Project Manager

About the role

Our client is seeking a dedicated IT Project Manager to join their dynamic team. As an IT Project Manager, you will be an integral part of the Disaster Recovery and Cloud Resilience department supporting cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership, excellent communication skills, and a proactive approach to problem-solving, which will align successfully within the organization.

What's the Job?

• Manage and coordinate disaster recovery testing for multiple cloud-hosted applications, ensuring testing activities are planned, scheduled, executed, and documented in accordance with program requirements.
• Partner with application owners, cloud engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, business continuity, and business stakeholders to establish testing scope, objectives, recovery scenarios, and success criteria.
• Develop and maintain integrated testing schedules, project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and remediation tracking across a large application portfolio.
• Facilitate test planning meetings, readiness reviews, test execution bridges, post-test reviews, and governance forums.
• Coordinate recovery validation activities and ensure achievement of established RTO, RPO, and resiliency objectives.

What's Needed?

• Proven experience in IT Project Management, Technical Program Management, Disaster Recovery, or related fields.
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies, disaster recovery principles, and operational resilience frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, stakeholders, and project dependencies within complex environments.
• Experience developing and maintaining project plans, risk management artifacts, and executive communications.
• Proficiency with project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, ServiceNow, and SharePoint.

Location: Charlotte, NC – hybrid
Duration: 12+ months with highly possible extension / conversion