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ShiftCode Analytics, Inc. · 2 months ago

Sr. IT Disaster Recovery (DR) Project Manager

Long Beach, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

ShiftCode Analytics, Inc. is seeking a Senior IT Disaster Recovery (DR) Project Manager for a 9+ month contract in Long Beach, CA. The role involves leading Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning, managing multiple projects, and ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical solutions.

AnalyticsConsultingInformation Technology

Responsibilities

Ensure projects follow industry best practices in project and portfolio management

Manage multiple projects with broad scope, ambiguity, and complexity

Provide structure and direction, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical solutions

Develop and maintain project schedules, milestones, and deliverables, proactively managing risks, scope, and dependencies

Oversee vendor and in-house project teams, ensuring projects progress within time and budget constraints

Monitor costs, schedules, and project health, providing regular updates to leadership and escalating issues proactively when necessary

Analyze and refine business and functional requirements to ensure clarity and feasibility – not just document them

Assess process impacts, define success criteria, and support change management efforts by identifying and addressing potential adoption challenges

Ensure smooth communication between technical teams and business stakeholders, bridging gaps between business needs and technical feasibility

Coordinate with vendors to ensure timely delivery of system enhancements, upgrades or implementations

Manage vendor relationships, including contract agreements, software renewals and issue escalation

Identify potential risks early and implement mitigation strategies

Maintain a structured RAID log to track risks, actions, issues and decisions, ensuring visibility and accountability

Navigate established governance structures to manage escalations, change requests and decision making processes

Qualification

Disaster Recovery (DR)Business Continuity (BC)Project ManagementPMP CertificationAgile/ScrumCloud Platform (AWS/Azure)Business AnalysisStakeholder EngagementVendor ManagementRisk ManagementCommunication Skills

Required

Lead Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) planning, coordination, testing, and execution

Drive initiatives involving data governance, reporting automation, and data platform modernization

Partner across IT and Information Management teams, including the Network Operations Center (NOC), Security Operations Center (SOC), Infrastructure Operations, Service Desk, Business Applications, and Technology Strategy & Architecture (TSA), to ensure alignment and delivery across technical and business workstreams

Apply both Waterfall and Agile/Scrum approaches, tailoring based on scope and complexity

Communicate technical concepts, risks, and outcomes clearly to executive and non-technical audiences

Onsite in Long Beach Monday through Wednesday each week, working closely with the TSA team and other IM stakeholders

Brings the right balance of humility, curiosity, and team orientation. Someone who is motivated to deliver, eager to learn, and easy to collaborate with

Minimum of 10 years of experience in IT, project management, and successful project delivery

Develop project charters and plans, facilitate meetings, track project status, manage risks and issues, coordinate with vendors and internal teams, and prepare executive status updates

Actively structure and drive projects forward while solving problems along the way

Engage in business analysis, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and vendor coordination

Comfortable bridging business and IT, ensuring business needs and technical feasibility align

Highly adaptable, able to step into any project, create structure, and drive execution