Paladin Consulting · 6 hours ago
Infrastructure Project Manager
Dallas, TX
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expPaladin Consulting is seeking a Sr. Infrastructure Project Manager to manage cross-functional projects within the Infrastructure department. The role involves coordinating with vendors, leading IT PMO projects, and ensuring project deliverables meet quality standards.
ConsultingInformation TechnologyStaffing Agency
Hiring Manager
Shelly Jones
Responsibilities
Ultimately responsible for partnering with Infrastructure management to uphold the project scope and objectives. Able to handle the coordination with vendor to help take the load off of the project team and communicate information accurately to project team
Responsible for using Project Management best practices to guide a project with the stakeholders and/or business. Serves as a documentation Infrastructure analyst who understands how to use Visio and create diagrams
Deliver projects on budget with desired outcomes. Will utilize skills to forecast the financials of the project to effectively communicate any variance to the sponsor and required management
Able to articulate problems, bring the right people together to solve problems of the project and know when the problem has been properly addressed and closed—all this with the proper sense of urgency that the problem requires
Conduct weekly status reviews with the project team and work with the project team to obtain updates for weekly status reporting and PowerPoint presentations to include updates on timeline, health of project indicators, accomplishments, and planned items coming up
Maintain project governance with regular status meetings and reports, stand-ups and/or review sessions to keep team organized and moving forward to successful project closure
Screens projects for risks, actions, issues, decisions, financial viability, and opportunities for sustainable improvement. Understands the end to end impact along with cross functional impact. Formulates and implements solutions
Project may involve working with multiple vendors and making sure vendor PM aligns to deliverables, SOW, invoicing, and timeline
Works with Financial Analyst to performs validation on financial-related reporting and liaises with project leadership about budget, forecast, accruals and reclassifications that may need to occur on project
With input from project leadership updates project forecast, submits accruals and reclassifications to maintain project financial standards
Monitors project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility with delivery lead
Develop a detailed project plan/schedule to track progress
Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
Perform risk management to minimize project risks
Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
Create, maintain, and store project documentation and records
Responsible for defining, teaching, and enforcing the use of good project management practices with project team
Excellent communicator that understands frequent, consistent communication helps keep teams aligned and progressing forward with project. Respectful and upholds team dignity throughout project
Encourages and supports escalations: communicates to all concerned parties project milestones, status updates, as well as any existing or potential escalation issues. Proactively follows escalation and change control processes
Serves as a role model in promoting good working relationships across a project. Cultivates the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all of a project's stakeholders. This includes executing the proper communication and coordination of cross functional project teams to ensure seamless delivery
Engages in building consensus, developing contingency planning and providing recommend solutions
Lead project teams in strategic meetings and follow up with meeting minutes
Understands Software Development Lifecycle
Excellent organization skills
Ability to follow Governance and utilize required formatting of PowerPoint presentations as required
Qualification
Required
A background showing 5-7 years managing multiple Infrastructure and security projects
Ability to learn and adhere to processes to ensure project artifacts and deliverables follow standards
Ability to document requirements and create diagrams related to Infrastructure and security environments
Understands how to coordinate with infrastructure vendors to schedule / unblock delays
Leads assigned IT PMO projects under minimal supervision
Technical writing / experience with creating diagrams and technical documentation is required
Responsible for organizing and facilitating status update, presentations, project schedule, financial reporting and risk management
Understand the triple constraints of a project and how to control project scope, cost and schedule
Responsible for using Project Management best practices to guide a project with the stakeholders and/or business
Deliver projects on budget with desired outcomes
Able to articulate problems, bring the right people together to solve problems of the project
Conduct weekly status reviews with the project team
Maintain project governance with regular status meetings and reports
Screens projects for risks, actions, issues, decisions, financial viability, and opportunities for sustainable improvement
Works with Financial Analyst to performs validation on financial-related reporting
Develop a detailed project plan/schedule to track progress
Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
Perform risk management to minimize project risks
Create, maintain, and store project documentation and records
Responsible for defining, teaching, and enforcing the use of good project management practices with project team
Excellent communicator that understands frequent, consistent communication helps keep teams aligned
Encourages and supports escalations
Serves as a role model in promoting good working relationships across a project
Engages in building consensus, developing contingency planning and providing recommend solutions
Lead project teams in strategic meetings and follow up with meeting minutes
Understands Software Development Lifecycle
Excellent organization skills
Ability to follow Governance and utilize required formatting of PowerPoint presentations
Self-motivated, works with appropriate urgency, friendly and assertive
Extremely detailed oriented and organized
Exceptional time management skills
Excellent concise writing and communication skills
Cool, calm, collected and collaborative
Develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals
Intermediate to Advanced skills with Microsoft Project
Ability to identify and document issues, risks and problems
Preferred
Energy experience is a plus
Experience in an Information Technology Environment
Masters, a plus
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
Company
Paladin Consulting
Paladin Consulting is a staffing and recruiting company that provides it and engineering consulting services.
1001-5000 employees
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