Senior Project Manager (Remote)
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Presidio is looking for Project Managers with experience leading all aspects of IT projects including project scope, schedule, resources, quality, costs, and change control. Presidio PMs work directly with the project team, clients and partners to lead and ensure successful project delivery within scope, on time and within budget, and are expected to be able to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization and project teams.  Management Skills

  • Manage expectations and requirements of multiple projectstakeholders (to include internal, partner and customer sponsors and stakeholders).
  • Plan and implement IT solution development projects.
  • Close collaboration and alignment with the delivery and sales team leadership to drive consistent business value for our customers and support the overall business goals and strategy of Presidio.
  • Build and maintain schedules (with knowledge of relevant tools).
  • Lead resolution of issues/escalations related to budget, schedule, and scope.
  • Oversee the activities of various stakeholders (Scrum meetings, project meetings, technical deep dive sessions, etc.).
  • Ensure deadlines and cost targets are met and escalate to Presidio leadership when necessary.
  • Maintain detailed, comprehensive project documentation and reports using project management tools.
  • Serve as a liaison between the business and technical aspects of projects.
  • Lead cross-functional, virtual and offshore teams.
  • Develop comprehensive project plans to track project tasks, schedule, risks and issues to be shared with the project team and client team.
  • Ensure that projects align with Presidio overall strategic objectives.

 

  • Business Scope:

    • The Senior Project Manager will be a key piece of the Project Management Office for the Cloud Services division of Presidio.
    • This team manages and drives our Cloud Services most critical, complex, and enterprise level projects for our clients in the Healthcare, Financial Services, Retail, Technology, and Energy industries.
    • The Senior Project Manager will deliver professional service projects in the cloud native application development, DevOps, Big Data/Analytics, and Cloud Migration spaces, requiring a deep understand of the software development lifecycle, Agile processes, technical project delivery, and Cloud (Amazon Web Services).
    • The Senior Project Manager and this division serves as a critical liaison between technical teams, client stakeholders, business development, and solutions architecture team members.
    • The Senior Project Manager must be well versed in Product Ownership, bringing either previous Product Owner experience or a Certified Scrum Product Owner certification, or similar certification.

    Technical Scope:

    • The Senior Project Manager will be supporting technical teams working with the latest cutting edge technologies in the cloud native application development, DevOps, Big Data/Analytics, and Cloud Migration spaces
    • The Senior Project Manager supports a large software development team delivering new builds of applications in Java, Node.JS, .NET/C#, Angular.JS, React.JS, Vue.JS, Python and more
    • The Senior Project Manager must have an understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud technologies, and how applications are developed and deployed to AWS for clients
    • The Senior Project Manager will have to effectively communicate timelines, key performance indicators, agile scrum standups and sprints, and delivery timelines from the Presidio development team to the client stakeholders


    Required Qualifications

    • At least 5 years of experience in IT project management and general IT consulting.
    • Demonstrable skills across project management standard methodologies (Project Management Institute defined), Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, Waterfall).
    • Ability to manage Agile/Scrum/Kanban/Waterfall (Depending on client environment) processes to effectively deliver new applications and app modernization projects
    • Proficient in Confluence, Jira and Microsoft Project for project goal and timeline tracking
    • Familiarity with Smartsheet, Trello, Teamwork, Zoho and similar project management toolsets to manage project tracking, key performance indicators, project budget, resources, and timelines
    • Experience working with the Microsoft Office suite of tools (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint).
    • Bachelor’s Degree in Information technology or related fieldSenior 

    .      AWS- Amazon Web Services. This is the largest Public Cloud provider in the work and a partner to Presidio. The Senior Project Manager will be leading cloud migrations and applications deployments to AWS as a service we provide to clients

    1.  PMBOK- Project Management Body of Knowledge. This is standard terminology and guidelines for project management that will be required knowledge of the Sr Project Manager.

    Agile- A set standard of processes in how we manage and deliver our projects. In software development, agile practices approach discovering requirements and developing solutions through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customer/end user

                                                         iii.      Scrum- Methodology for managing software delivery projects

    1.  Kanban- Methodology for managing software delivery projects, involving how project timelines are visualized
    2.  Waterfall- Methodology for managing software and infrastructure projects
    3.  Trello- Web based tool used for tracking projects. Used in some projects for clients by our Project Managers.

                                                       vii.      Smartsheet- Collaboration software we use for workflow management and project progress tracking. Used by our clients and at times by our Project Management team

                                                     viii.      PMI- Project Management Institute, sets standards and certifications for Project Managers

    1.  Confluence- Web based tool used for team collaboration, documents sharing, and knowledge transfer. Used daily by our project management teams
    2.  Jira- Enteprise project management software used for tracking client project delivery workflows and timelines. Used daily by our Project Management teams
    3.  Zoho- Software used by some of our clients for presentations, spreadsheets, databases on resources, etc.


Preferred Skills

  • PMP or similar professional certification.
  • Experience leading projects which leverage AWS technologies.
  • Strong time management, analytical, communication, thought leadership, team building, motivational and customer service skills.
  • Excellent client-facing communication and relationship building skills.
  • Ability to learn quickly, adapt to change and have ownership of staying up-to-date on current and emerging technologies and tools as they relate to our business and project needs.
  • Passion, creativity, energy, and enthusiasm towards collaborating on the exciting growth and development of our company.
  • A desire to learn new technologies, methodologies, solutions and understand the business needs of our customers.
  • Adaptability to our overall vision, goals and dynamic culture and environment.



Physical Requirements

May involve extensive periods of sitting in front of a computer, typing, walking, limited bending, and lifting small boxes.

We are looking for a candidate that is the right fit to make this a rewarding and successful experience.

Below are some of the attributes we’ve seen as meaningful to succeed in this role: 

You are a leader with a vision – You are a hands-on problem solver and have delivered products with varying complexities and environments. You are known for your attention to detail without losing the big picture. You are respected by your peers, customers, and industry.

You are a great listener – Our goal is to deliver solutions that last for years and continuously adapt to the changing needs of the industry. You are in tune with your customers, peers, industry trends and are receptive to what the market needs.

You are a collaborator – You enjoy working with multi-cultural teams, both domestic and international and find ways to get the best out of your people. You also work well with a variety of roles including core development, design, operations and support.

You believe in continuous learning – Things change in our industry continuously, and you always love to learn both the underlying technology and the business motivations of our customers, constantly finding new ways to improve our solutions, processes to make valuable contributions for our customers.

You are ready to contribute to rapid growth within a dynamic, small company culture!

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ABOUT PRESIDIO

Presidio is a leading North American IT solutions provider focused on Digital Infrastructure, Cloud and Security solutions to create agile, secure infrastructure platforms for its customers. We deliver this technology expertise through a full life cycle model of professional, managed, and support services including strategy, consulting, implementation and design. By taking the time to deeply understand how our clients define success, we help them harness technology advances, simplify IT complexity and optimize their environments today while enabling future applications, user experiences, and revenue models. As of June 30, 2019, we serve approximately 7,900 middle-market, large, and government organizations across a diverse range of industries. Approximately 2,900 Presidio professionals, including more than 1,600 technical engineers, are based in 60+ offices across the United States in a unique, local delivery model combined with the national scale of a $3.0 billion dollar industry leader. We are passionate about driving results for our clients and delivering the highest quality of service in the industry. For more information visit: .

Digital Infrastructure:

Our Digital Infrastructure solutions help make existing IT infrastructure more efficient, while equipping our clients for a cloud-flexible, mobile-ready, highly secured, insight-driven future. Given the millions of potential configurations across these technologies, our clients rely on our expertise to simplify a highly complex IT landscape, helping to identify and deploy the solutions most appropriate for their business needs. Our Digital Infrastructure solutions scale from workgroup to the largest enterprise requirements.

Cloud:

We help our clients take cloud strategy and adoption to the next level. Through our advanced cloud solutions practice, combined with Presidio’s IT infrastructure expertise, we provide private, hybrid, and multi cloud solutions. By closely aligning our services and solutions with our strategic partners Microsoft Azure™, Amazon Web Services™, Intel® and VMware™ Presidio offers cloud strategy, architecture and implementation services along with application rationalization and migration across the hybrid and multi-cloud data center environment. In addition, our new and innovative Presidio Cloud Concierge solution provides a foundation for Automation and Self-Services across Clouds to improve productivity and drive increased levels of governance and security.

Rather than a “one size fits all” approach, or having to choose between public or private, Presidio tailors a hybrid cloud strategy to meet your unique business requirements. We help our clients accelerate and simplify cloud adoption across the entire IT lifecycle.

 Security:

Our comprehensive security risk methodology gives customers the ability to safeguard their environments and critical business data. This includes continuous threat protection and risk mitigation through the Presidio Cyber Risk Management program, a next generation approach that integrates security strategy, assessments, architecture and remediation, and aligns all of these with organizational goals.

Presidio Cyber Risk Management provides clients with a holistic approach for effective security policies and procedures, risk assessment and management, regulatory compliance, incident response, and education and awareness. We use an established risk management methodology and proprietary risk scoring process to provide the IT leader and board of directors with an ongoing view of their organization’s risk exposure and remediation path.

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Presidio is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer / VEVRAA Federal Contractor. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for this position regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, ethnicity, veteran status, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state and local statutes, regulations and ordinances.

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RECRUITMENT AGENCIES PLEASE NOTE: 

Agencies Please Note: Agencies may not submit any unsolicited candidate information to any employee of Presidio.  Any candidate information received by any employee of Presidio will be considered property of Presidio, unless the submitting agency is an Authorized Vendor who has received a written request to perform recruiting services from a member of Presidio’s Talent Acquisition staff.  No other Presidio staff member shall be authorized to engage an agency to perform recruiting services.  Authorized Vendors have entered into written contracts with Presidio that have been reviewed and executed by the Vice President of Talent Acquisition. Payments will not be made to any agency who is not an Authorized Vendor (nor will they be made to any agency for performing unauthorized services).

 



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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Presidio, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer/ VEVRAA Federal Contractor.  All qualified candidates will receive consideration for this position regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, ethnicity, veteran status, marital status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state and local statutes, regulations and ordinances. 

 

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Job Summary
Company
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
5+ years
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