Job Description
INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT MANAGER - REMOTE
Seeking an experienced Infrastructure Project Manager to help supplement major tech projects for a global professional services firm. The Infrastructure Project Manager will lead strategic projects around Okta/Single Sign On. This role entails working with the PMO managing projects from inception through completion and will work in collaboration with the IT leadership and internal stakeholders. Excellent communication skills are required.
Responsibilities
- Promote pragmatic infrastructure maturity by championing value-based, risk-managed investments and guided, disciplined execution
- Ensure overall successful project delivery (on-time, on-budget, high quality, meeting business outcomes).
- Interfaces with stakeholders from different parts of the organizations to develop scope, technical requirements and execution plans.
- Lead projects with overall responsibility for successful initiation, planning, design, execution... monitoring, controlling, status reporting and closure.
- Drives activities to achieve measurable outcomes by managing schedule, resource, scope, deliverables, budget, risk, issue, dependency, vendor relationship and communications.
- Collaborates with project and program leads to create any required business cases, project charters, communication plans, delivery timelines, detailed schedules and resources required.
- Provides timely updates to program manager, functional leads, IT PMO, and key stakeholders by producing regular status reports and steering governance updates.
- Assists with the enhancement of documentation related to process, SOPs, schedule templates, reports, communication plans, etc.
- No direct reports in this role but you will manage third party project delivery resources/team and cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years in IT project management.
- PMP, PPM, PRINCE2, or equivalent certification required. Agile and Scrum certifications are preferred.
- Comfortable collaborating and presenting to Executive Management.
- Has implemented Okta in a global environment.
- Ability to provide project collaboration and leadership across multiple functional areas.
- Experience using project portfolio management tools such as SmartSheet (preferred), Microsoft Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and Project.
- Project management experience with the technologies below is preferred.
- IT Security, SSO, IAM, Okta, Lastpass
- Microsoft O365, Teams, SharePoint, Azure AD, Avepoint Governance
- Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite, Microsoft MDM, Enterprise Security tools - Intune, Azure Identity and Rights Management, Enterprise Mobility Suite
- Project management skills: create and execute project plans, proactively manage risks/issues, maintain compliance with project management processes, an eye for detail, independently maintain project documentation, drive follow-up on open actions etc.
- Ability to synthesize and simplify complex problems and systems
- Able to manage challenges, think creatively, and pivot quickly
- Self-starter with the ability to multi-task and juggle competing demands.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills: Identifies opportunities or problems and acts quickly and decisively to respond to the situation. Ability to drive productive conversations and team meetings. Active listening skills.
- Excellent People skills: a combination of skills including an ability to ask penetrating questions, detect unstated assumptions and resolve conflict, be able to work with cross-functional teams.
- Strong team player, able to foster teamwork, collaboration and a positive working environment to the project team.
- Analytical skills: ability to perceive and analyze problems, develop alternatives and recommend sound decisions.
- Solve Problems: Assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
- Ability to adapt quickly to new and changing business and technical environments.
- High degree of professionalism and integrity.
- Has a clear understanding of service culture and a conviction in technology's role in the business
- Ability to properly and efficiently articulate sophisticated technology principles to various groups of stakeholders
- Excellent interpersonal skills that generate respect and trust from stakeholders
- Flexible leader with ability to be comfortable with ambiguity
