This is a long term consulting opportunity ( 1 year ++) with our direct client in Breinigsville, PA for a Sr. IT Project Manager who has experience working with Data Centers. While this is a Contract consulting position, the client is open to the possibility of this converting to full time status (not required.)

Projects Supported: The focus of this role to be on complex data center projects to include disaster recovery processes and best practices as well as hybrid environments (on premise and cloud solutions).

Role Summary:

The IT Senior Project Manager is responsible for providing a standardized approach to identify, prioritize, and successfully execute a technology portfolio of initiatives and projects that are aligned with the IT strategic goals and vision.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities include:

• Project Management. Documenting project requirements, assisting project initiation deliverables, securing project funding, assisting with project planning deliverables, conducting project kickoff, completing the execution phase of the project (managing the project task tracking, issues tracking, test planning and execution and project communication plan execution), controlling, updating, and reporting project financials, ensuring compliance to control measures, managing the vendor deliverables, purchase orders, work orders, and SharePoint site and planning and managing project completion, transition to support, and project closure.
• Project Governance. Working with Director to conduct Project Audit during closure of projects and tracking and updating monthly financials on assigned projects
• Project Administration. Tracking and updating status on key project milestones, activities and schedules, preparing project documentation and conduct project kick-off, maintaining Project SharePoint Site and communicating project status to project team, stakeholders, sponsors and IT management.
• Program Management. Maintaining the program SharePoint site, providing program status updates to the roadmap owner, program sponsor, and IT leadership team and managing the program scope and work with the Roadmap Owner to manage the queue of projects within the program.

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor s degree required
• Experience managing complex Data Center projects that contain on premise and cloud solutions.
• Advanced experience with IT Disaster Recovery best practices and processes.
• Experience managing teams of internal resources, customer and vendor relationships
• Demonstrated strong written and oral communication and presentation skills
• Experience working cooperatively and collaboratively with all levels of employees to maximize performance, creativity, problem solving and results
• Experience and/or training in ITIL
• Up to 20% travel

Certificates & Licenses:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) required