IT Project Manager (Chicago)

Job Title: IT Project Manager

Need to be local to Chicago IL

Experience 9+ Years Required

Must be Visa Independent

Required Education

-Bachelors Degree

Required Certification:

-PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) or Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP)

Required Skills

-Level 3 — minimum of 7+ years' experience

-Experience leading infrastructure technology projects and leading teams to execute highly complex initiatives of significant scope, scale, and risk

-Program/project management expertise including working knowledge and application of Waterfall, Hybrid, and/or Agile methodologies

-Skillful in adopting corporate project management standards (incorporating PMI standards), IT controls, risk, and regulatory requirements

-Demonstrated ability leading multiple concurrent projects

-Results-oriented with a bias for action and execution

-Sound problem-solving and analytical skills

-Adept at navigating a matrixed environment; ability to influence, inform, and collaborate with all levels of the organization

-Strong communication skills to effectively share information, collaborate, and drive results

-Ability to easily process information from various sources and simplify the complex

-Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines

-Self-starter with ability to operate in a fast-paced environment and manage ambiguity

-Thrives in a team environment and works well with others

-General familiarity with infrastructure technology (Servers / Storage / Network / Database / Middleware)

-Familiarity with PPM Tools such as Clarity, and other tools including ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.

-Solid working knowledge of MS Office Suite including MS Project, SharePoint, and Teams

Nice to Haves

-Experience in a large financial services firm or highly regulated industry

-Experience leading application development initiatives

-Network project experience

Job Responsibilities

-Project Leadership & Delivery

-Lead project team to successfully deliver project objectives and benefits, providing required oversight to ensure control of scope, schedule, resources, and cost

-Provide structured project management leadership by establishing governance, ensuring clear roles and responsibilities for all project team members, defining phases, and identifying deliverables/milestones

-Develop project plans, provide executional leadership, and track progress on project goals

-Identify and manage areas of risk and dependencies, including contingency planning and developing project health restoration plans

-Ensure adherence to NT project standards, IT controls, risk, and regulatory requirements

-Provide timely communications on project status and health including scope, schedule, resource, and/or budget, as well as articulate key risks/issues and associated impacts

-Manage stakeholder expectations and motivate project team

-Partner with stakeholders to plan for and manage project resources

-Facilitate discussions and working sessions across the various teams involved in the project

-Establish and execute against project communication plans

-Escalate in a timely manner to the appropriate party(ies) to address decisions needed, the removal of roadblocks and other obstacles or constraints