Technical Project Manager

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Data Center Project Manager in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 12 Months + extensions

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in business transformation, simplification, and modernization with a get stuff done attitude and drive cultural change.

• Experience managing in a complex, matrixed environment and comfortable leading and executing through influence.

• A can-do attitude and an agent to drive velocity and change.

• Agile & 4iterative delivery and tools expertise for complex, enterprise-wide initiatives (i.e., Jira and Confluence).

• Deep expertise in strategic problem-solving and project management.

• Translating technical delivery into actionable communication for senior stakeholders.

• Data Center build out, Neighborhoods, cloud migration, app modernization/transformation and executive communications.

• Subject matter knowledgeable in one or more technical area – Change Integration/Change Delivery, DevSecOps, Infrastructure-As-Code, x86/ARM/GPU, Container/K8, Virtual Machines, Networking, DMZ, Databases, Storage, Messaging Middleware, API Gateways, Batch/ETL, Data LakeHouse, AI/ML, Mainframe, Public Cloud

• Experience strategically engaging with all levels of professionals and managers across multiple lines of businesses and serve as an experienced advisor to leadership.

• Highly effective and proven consultative leader with strong business and data-driven acumen, to drive continuous improvement in a data-driven way.

What You Will Be Doing

• Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Project Management.
• Consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking.
• Provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Project Management business solutions.
• Strategically engage with client personnel.
• Connect the dots across workstreams and always be on the lookout for opportunities to improve process, remove friction and transform the business
• Planning and change management across project scope, timeline, and resources (specific to work stream and factory)
• Drive execution/workplan management of work stream/factory objectives.
• Maintain work stream milestones and dependencies.
• Manage and control the work stream critical path.
• Develop communication plan aligned with the program communications team.
• Lead status reporting and updates leveraging Jira
• Document and drive resolution of action items and risk mitigations
• Escalate issues quickly and perform impact analysis for milestones/outcomes
• Create “Go to Green” plans for At-Risk or Off-Track milestones/outcomes