Infrastructure Project Manager (CLOUD AWS AND AZURE Migrations with Data Center)

Job Title : Project Manager (CLOUD AWS AND AZURE Migrations with Data Center)

Location: Irving, TX (Hybrid onsite)

Duration : Long term contract

Contract: W2 / C2C IC (Own corp individual contractor only)

Pay Range: $60/hr W2 or $70/hr C2C Individual Contractor

Job Description:

Responsibilities include:

• Drives new cloud technology adoption, leads legacy initiatives to reduce technical debt, lead broad cross-functional teams to increase rate of technology adoption
• Agile Program/Project Management. Plans sprints with required JIRA and Project Management detail, and effective dependency management.
• Define and incorporate appropriate Information Security guardrails adhering to security risks/policies.
• Partner with team leads across Cloud Operations and Engineering, Application Owners, Systems and Database Admins to deliver on business requirements.
• Coordinate with operations and engineering teams on issues as they arise, including addressing resource gaps efficiently.
• Manage program documentation in accordance with our company standards and policies
• Work with teams to set milestones, communicate program statuses, and identify/address potential roadblocks, maintaining full portfolio visibility at all levels of the organization.
• Manage communication across cross-functional teams to ensure the smooth progress and information flow

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s Degree in a technical field or equivalent experience. Master s degree preferred.
• 10+ years relevant experience in Financial Services, Technology or similar fields with demonstrable and measurable results
• Strong Leadership skill and working knowledge of the techniques required to adequately plan enterprise level changes.
• A customer advocate with a strong focus on customer needs and behaviors as the driving force behind new products and experiences.
• Compelling storyteller with experience communicating strategies and ideas to engineers, technical, and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with expertise in articulating strategy and actions to key decision makers and stakeholders across the organization.
• Exceptional presentation skills. Ability to present to senior levels of management (e.g. Director, MD) and to facilitate discussions at the senior stakeholder levels.
• Ability to forge strong relationships with both external and internal partners to ensure clear objectives and delivery of business goals.
• Proven ability to influence decision-making at all levels within an organization and influence non-directs through data and a vision in a variety of contexts.
• Demonstrated sound business judgment, analytical acumen, client-centric mindset, problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Execution oriented with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage to tight deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements.
• Proven track record in delivery of multiple concurrent initiatives, operational process change and improvement.
• Ability to excel in a global, hybrid, cross-functional environment with competing priorities
• Ability to lead strategic planning sessions challenging the status quo where appropriate and drive decision making process.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and data services (compute, storage, networking and others), modern microservice architecture/deployments, and working in distributed cloud-based environment using Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Understanding of technology standards, regulatory requirements (particularly cross-border requirements) and global implementation impact.
• Valuing Diversity: Demonstrates an appreciation of a diverse workforce. Appreciates differences in style or perspective and uses differences to add value to decisions or actions and organizational success.

Additional/Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as an AWS Solutions Architect, Cloud Security Certification, and/or OpenStack Administrator Certification a plus (Other cloud-related certification also a plus).
• Developer-level operations proficiency knowledge of networking, familiarity with load balancers, hypervisors, CDNs, etc
• Experience with Test-Driven Design and automated UI testing frameworks

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Job Title : Project Manager (CLOUD AWS AND AZURE Migrations with Data Center)

Location: Irving, TX (Hybrid onsite)

Duration : Long term contract

Contract: W2 / C2C IC (Own corp individual contractor only)

Pay Range: $60/hr W2 or $70/hr C2C Individual Contractor

Job Description:

Responsibilities include:

• Drives new cloud technology adoption, leads legacy initiatives to reduce technical debt, lead broad cross-functional teams to increase rate of technology adoption
• Agile Program/Project Management. Plans sprints with required JIRA and Project Management detail, and effective dependency management.
• Define and incorporate appropriate Information Security guardrails adhering to security risks/policies.
• Partner with team leads across Cloud Operations and Engineering, Application Owners, Systems and Database Admins to deliver on business requirements.
• Coordinate with operations and engineering teams on issues as they arise, including addressing resource gaps efficiently.
• Manage program documentation in accordance with our company standards and policies
• Work with teams to set milestones, communicate program statuses, and identify/address potential roadblocks, maintaining full portfolio visibility at all levels of the organization.
• Manage communication across cross-functional teams to ensure the smooth progress and information flow

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s Degree in a technical field or equivalent experience. Master s degree preferred.
• 10+ years relevant experience in Financial Services, Technology or similar fields with demonstrable and measurable results
• Strong Leadership skill and working knowledge of the techniques required to adequately plan enterprise level changes.
• A customer advocate with a strong focus on customer needs and behaviors as the driving force behind new products and experiences.
• Compelling storyteller with experience communicating strategies and ideas to engineers, technical, and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with expertise in articulating strategy and actions to key decision makers and stakeholders across the organization.
• Exceptional presentation skills. Ability to present to senior levels of management (e.g. Director, MD) and to facilitate discussions at the senior stakeholder levels.
• Ability to forge strong relationships with both external and internal partners to ensure clear objectives and delivery of business goals.
• Proven ability to influence decision-making at all levels within an organization and influence non-directs through data and a vision in a variety of contexts.
• Demonstrated sound business judgment, analytical acumen, client-centric mindset, problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Execution oriented with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage to tight deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements.
• Proven track record in delivery of multiple concurrent initiatives, operational process change and improvement.
• Ability to excel in a global, hybrid, cross-functional environment with competing priorities
• Ability to lead strategic planning sessions challenging the status quo where appropriate and drive decision making process.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and data services (compute, storage, networking and others), modern microservice architecture/deployments, and working in distributed cloud-based environment using Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Understanding of technology standards, regulatory requirements (particularly cross-border requirements) and global implementation impact.
• Valuing Diversity: Demonstrates an appreciation of a diverse workforce. Appreciates differences in style or perspective and uses differences to add value to decisions or actions and organizational success.

Additional/Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as an AWS Solutions Architect, Cloud Security Certification, and/or OpenStack Administrator Certification a plus (Other cloud-related certification also a plus).
• Developer-level operations proficiency knowledge of networking, familiarity with load balancers, hypervisors, CDNs, etc
• Experience with Test-Driven Design and automated UI testing frameworks

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.