Senior IT Project Manager (Contractor)

Responsibilities

• Lead clients' infrastructure & cloud migration engagements, including cloud migration strategy, application cloud suitability/readiness assessment, migration planning, sourcing options, business case and execution coordination
• Manage a portfolio of large, long-term, and complex projects that may span multiple lines of business
• Develop individual project plans complete with budgetary information and resource planning
• Works with functional Managers for project timeline and resource management
• Customer relationship management; Interfaces directly with customer's IT and executive management; Change and risk management
• Status reporting on project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership
• Host a project meeting for each project under your direction
• Refined project budget as needed to ensure timeliness and fiscal responsibility
• Cooordinat with vendors and suppliers as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer- or business-related discipline required
• 5+ years of experience in project management
• 2+ Years of Program and Project Planning including experience with Cloud Transformation Projects and Programs
• Good experience and understanding of project controls, processes, governance and management
• Understanding and knowledge across wider Cloud adoption and technology enablement (Microsoft, AWS, Public Cloud etc..)
• Knowledge of transition management, user adoption and customer success is of interest for certain engagements
• Professional in approach with maturity and excellent customer facing skills
• Able to complete projects on time and within the stated budget
• Excellent communication, organization, time-management and leadership skills
• Expertise with project management, collaboration, and time management tools
• PMP or PRINCE2 Certification
• Knowledge on SAP or Unix, Linux, VMware, Citrix, Azure technologies will be added advantage
• Experience into O365 is must