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IT PROJECT MANAGER

  • Location

    Luxembourg

  • Sector:

    Digital & Technology, Finance & Banking

  • Job type:

    Contract

  • Salary/Rate:

    Competitive

  • Contact:

    Sarah Doan-Gill

  • Contact email:

    sdgill@skillfindergroup.com

  • Job ref:

    18746USER_36

  • Consultant:

    Sarah Doan-Gill

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