Job Title: Information Technology - IT Project Manager

Luxembourg: full time on site for first 2/3 months, then 2 days WFH a week thereafter
6 Month extendable contract
Competitive Rate

Job Description:

Tech Project Manager to be responsible for leading project team(s) through App Transformation/Upgrade process, as part of a Datacentre remediation exercise.
This is to include management of discovery and application dependency mapping, all aspects of technical design, build & testing, and upgrade/migration execution.
You will interface with senior project sponsors, project managers, developers, business analysts, engineers, operational teams, vendors and the end customer.
You will be expected to follow the standard PPM framework, which includes progress tracking, reporting and budgeting.

Tech Project Manager should possess the following skills/experience:

Strong experience in managing projects focused on App transformations & Data Centre server migrations
Understanding of App transformation strategies (in-situ upgrades vs build of parallel run environments, etc)
Understanding of Security issues (Vulnerability Scanning) and the related infrastructural work needed to fix them
Demonstrate full project lifecycle experience, taking projects from the concept/inception phase right through to final delivery, including operational readiness
Manage cross-functional teams across business and IT to ensure effective communication, understanding & delivery of all migrations
Experience of managing multiple concurrent complex workstreams using both Waterfall and Agile
Proven problem management and resolution skills essential
Be able to demonstrate the ability to build, manage and motivate project teams
Be able to demonstrate strong management of external third party vendors and/or outsourced service providers
Work with Infrastructure Leads, App Dev Leads, Business Partners, Project Managers and Service Managers to ensure buy in and support for business change
In-depth understanding of enterprise service management concepts (ITIL)
Ability to understand business processes and use of data

Key duties include:

Responsible for managing assigned project(s) to ensure adherence to timeline, budget, scope & quality (within agreed tolerances)
Preparation of core project documentation/artefacts and maintenance of portfolio level plans including associated resourcing plans
Adhering to the NT program/project lifecycle including maintenance of detailed project plans, project brief, RAID log, financial management and regular stakeholder reporting
Chairing and attending project working and steering groups, presenting progress, financial status, RAID log and decision points
Develop Tech strategy, approach and implementation plans to achieve necessary business outcomes
Extensive stakeholder management (primarily split between Europe, UK and Chicago)
Identifies, tracks and manages project/program level risks and issues. Serves as escalation point to resolve project/program issues, remove roadblocks, formulate contingency plans and communicate status to Program’s Exec Leadership team
Coordination of internal teams, 3rd party partners and suppliers where they are involved in project and service delivery

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