Sr. Technical Project Manager - ACTIVE PMP REQUIRED

Location: Memphis, Tennessee | Type: Contract | Work Model: Remote – offsite

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage infrastructure projects within the Technology Services portfolio from initiation through closure, owning outcomes rather than just status updates.
• Build and maintain integrated work plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, RAID logs, and PMO governance artifacts; hold owners accountable to committed dates.
• Own the communications plan and reporting cadence including steering materials, executive briefings, escalation paths, and stakeholder updates.
• Provide direction and influence to cross-functional technical teams, vendors, and subject-matter experts without direct reporting authority.
• Apply structured change management to scope, requirements, and expectations, clearly articulating trade-offs to enable executive decision-making.
• Surface risks early, drive issues to resolution, and make the call when decisions are being avoided.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university; no substitution of experience for degree.
• Minimum ten (10) years managing enterprise-wide IT projects in a role as the accountable project manager.
• Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification; certificate number and expiration date required at submission.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional project teams and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Full professional proficiency in spoken and written English, capable of leading executive meetings and producing materials independently.
• Must reside in and work from the continental United States and be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
• Proven leadership presence, credibility, and ownership.
• Strong project management discipline including planning, tracking, and follow-through.
• Experience with change management navigating resistance, scope trade-offs, and scope decisions for sound outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with portfolio governance, telecom and VoIP, endpoint management (Intune), Azure/cloud services, networking, virtualization, and related infrastructure projects.
• Familiarity with waterfall, Agile (Scrum, SAFe), and hybrid methodologies.
• Experience in healthcare or academic research environment is advantageous.
• Ability to understand complex technical subject matter to challenge estimates and assumptions.
• Experience with tooling such as ServiceNow PPM, Azure DevOps, or JIRA is a plus.

Benefits

• Health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, and voluntary plans.
• Participation in a 401(k) plan.