PM/BA
Apex Systems · Englewood, CO · 2 wk ago
Project Management$30–$45/hrContract
Location: Englewood, Colorado (Hybrid)
About the Role
This position is for a Project Manager with strong business analyst capabilities. The role will focus on project management (approximately 70%) and business analysis (approximately 30%), with a significant need for reporting and dashboarding supported by AI and Jira. You will join a support organization responsible for critical infrastructure and lab operations, managing a large-scale environment that includes thousands of pieces of networking, server, storage, and head-end equipment.
What’s exciting about this role:
- Work in a high-impact, hands-on environment supporting a lab and infrastructure ecosystem at a massive scale.
- Engage with a variety of projects, including construction, lab evolution, and engineering process improvements.
- Gain visibility with direct exposure from junior engineers up to leadership, including owning leadership-level reporting.
- Utilize modern tooling with the opportunity to shape how the team uses AI, Jira dashboards, and automation for reporting.
- Benefit from supportive onboarding, with opportunities for future growth and internal mobility.
Responsibilities
- Lead project management for up to three concurrent projects, owning deadlines, accountability, agendas, and cross-team coordination.
- Create and manage project timelines, schedules, deliverables, and Gantt charts; communicate status and manage changes and risks.
- Produce and validate monthly and quarterly leadership reports, using AI where helpful with careful human validation of outputs.
- Build and maintain Jira dashboards for real-time visibility and translate planning artifacts into Jira for project and ticket tracking.
- Work directly with engineers and communicate at technical levels.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
- 2+ years of project management experience.
- Jira proficiency, including the ability to write JQL and build dashboards.
- Ability to create and manage timelines, schedules, deliverables, and Gantt charts.
- Comfort producing and validating leadership-level reporting (monthly/quarterly).
- Interpersonal communication skills across all levels, comfort voicing opinions, and keeping teams aligned and accountable.
- Ability to work effectively with engineers and communicate at technical levels.
Preferred Qualifications
- Comfort using AI for report generation and content creation.
- Experience with Visio or Lucidchart for process mapping.
- Microsoft Project experience.
- Familiarity with a data lake or Tableau reporting ecosystem.
- Infrastructure background (servers, networking, data centers) or construction experience.
- Telecom experience.
- Enterprise-scale project experience.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
- 401K program with company match after 12 months of tenure.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan.
- SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions.
- Corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
- On-demand training program, access to certification prep, and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars after 6+ months of tenure.
- Certification discounts and perks to associations such as CompTIA and IIBA.
- Dedicated customer service team and a certified Career Coach.
Pay
$30.00/hr - $45.00/hr