Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

Duration is 6 months Remote working (east coast consultants preferred). As a Technical Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing IT infrastructure projects, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality infrastructure & operations platform that meets business requirements and is delivered on time and within budget. You will work closely with infrastructure & development teams, product owners, vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure that all project milestones are met, risks are identified and managed, and project issues are resolved in a timely manner.

Responsibilities:

• Managing the delivery of multiple key technical projects through the complete lifecycle from inception to closure.
• This includes ensuring that projects are formally set up, resources are mobilized.
• Creating and ongoing maintenance of project plans, communication plans and RAID logs.
• Governance frameworks and quality gates are enforced and ultimately ensuring projects are delivered to budget, quality and on schedule.
• Proactively analyse variances against plan to assess trends threatening agreed scope, time, cost, and quality commitments.
• Identify signs that a project may be at risk and take appropriate action.
• Strong stakeholder management skillsets with the ability to work at all levels within an organization.
• Understanding of business change methodology and the drivers of successful change management.
• Strong Project Management skills with a proven track record of successful implementation of technical multi-faceted IT solutions working in collaboration with engineering teams, consultants, vendors, analysts, and developers.
• Good knowledge of information security principles and practices.
• Experience of using a variety of project management tools and techniques e.g., Agile, Project, Waterfall, etc.
• The ability to present information professionally and in a format suitable to its intended audience.
• Strong analytical skills, being a team player and possessing the ability to manage complex processes, systems and technology.
• Able to translate technical requirements into business language and explain technology concepts in layman terms.
• Experience working with Atlassian Jira & Confluence.
• Experience in delivering projects within the over-the-top streaming services and/or broadcast industry.
• A good understanding of SDLC and basic software development practices.

Lead identified projects and activities under the Infrastructure Workstream. Key activities include:

• Build, maintain, and drive project plan
• Build and promote project scope, reports, and other project artifacts as needed
• Evaluate and recommend core documentation and artifacts to be built for program, workstream, and project level use
• Execute development and publication of program documentation, processes, and reporting
• Re-plan project timelines, scope, and major milestones with dependencies in collaboration with wider CIS Integration team and IT PMO/IMO

It is specifically requested and desired that your SME voice be heard.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure project management.
• Strong experience in managing infrastructure projects using Agile methodologies.
• Proven track record of delivering infrastructure projects on time and within budget.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including development teams, product owners, and other stakeholders
• Knowledge of project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and MS Project
• Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems is a plus.
• Fluency in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Familiar with Scrum methodologies