IT Project Manager

Job Description

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
• Cook up 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