Senior Project Manager - Whitehouse Station NJ or Philly

Senior Project Manager - Cloud Platform

Location: Whitehouse Station, NJ (WHS or Philly) Duration: 6 months CTH

Job description: Senior Project Manager - Cloud Platform. Reporting to the AVP, Cloud Program Manager, this position manages the delivery of projects for the Infrastructure PMO within the ACE North America Information Technology Services (ITS) area. The Senior Project Manager - Cloud Platform is in a dynamic cross-functional execution team in the IT Infrastructure Cloud portfolio to support Program team, for supporting portfolio of projects for Azure Cloud Platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Management in a dynamic cross-functional execution team in the IT Infrastructure Cloud portfolio to support Program team, for supporting portfolio of projects for Azure Cloud Platform.
• Work with Cloud Program and multiple teams to validate ongoing Cloud Platform work efforts, identify and address findings from gap analysis, ensure and escalate related issues and risks with program team for timely mitigations.
• Project tracking aligning with Cloud Program Agile / Jira execution for assigned project(s), such as Jira Epics and User Stories, user story development, logging and assigning dependencies and risks.
• For projects assigned, assist with roadmap planning and timelines, change control process and workflow, and related Sprint planning with Product owner, Program manager and Scrum teams.
• Assist with operationalizing Cloud platform migration completions and relevant artifacts for turnover from Engineering /Infrastructure Builds to Run/Ops teams, per related process alignments with partner teams.
• Manage direct and consistent communications with Program and partner teams on projects assigned in a fast paced execution environment.

Qualifications:

• Minimum five years of direct project management experience in a transformational IT Infrastructure environment with Cloud Engineering, Cloud platform migrations, Application analysis.
• Directly managed projects on IT Infrastructure deployment, Application rationalization & Migration on Azure or AWS Cloud platforms and related implementations, for end to end discovery, planning, development and execution with cross functional teams.
• Solid analytical skills and aptitude for IT Cloud Infrastructure and technologies, requirements & scope management, resolution tracking.
• Interest and Ability to incorporate directions and execute in alignment with program direction and scope in a highly dynamic portfolio.
• Experienced with driving awareness for timely mitigation of issues or risks that could impact scope, budget, and/or timeline.
• Exposure to multiple project management methodologies and tools including Agile, Jira and MSFT Tools.
• Solid organizational skills and ability to work on multiple deliverables simultaneously.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university or equivalent work experience.
• Experience managing projects in one or more of the following areas:
• Data Center Consolidations with migration to Cloud Platforms (preferably Azure)
• Cloud Computing
• DR/High Availability, Server OS Upgrades, Virtual Servers, Virtual Desktops
• Experience managing infrastructure projects assessment and planning
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to work effectively with program structure and partner teams