Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Project Manager in Irving, TX (Hybrid).
Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Required Skills & Experience
- 7+ years of Project Management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
- Strong experience in business transformation, simplification, and modernization with a get stuff done attitude and drive cultural change.
- Experience managing in a complex, matrixed environment and comfortable leading and executing through influence.
- A can-do attitude and an agent to drive velocity and change.
- Agile & iterative delivery and tools expertise for complex, enterprise-wide initiatives (i.e., Jira and Confluence).
- Deep expertise in strategic problem-solving and project management.
- Translating technical delivery into actionable communication for senior stakeholders.
- Infrastructure experience with Data Center build out, Neighborhoods, cloud migration, app modernization/transformation and executive communications.
- Subject matter knowledgeable in two or more technical areas – Change Integration/Change Delivery, Dev Ops, Infrastructure-As-Code, x86/ARM/GPU, Container/K8, Virtual Machines, Networking, DMZ, Databases, Storage, Messaging Middleware, API Gateways, Batch/ETL, Data LakeHouse, AI/ML, Mainframe, Public Cloud
- Experience strategically engaging with all levels of professionals and managers across multiple lines of businesses and serve as an experienced advisor to leadership.
- Highly effective and proven consultative leader with strong business and data-driven acumen, to drive continuous improvement in a data-driven way.
What You Will Be Doing
- Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Project Management.
- Consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking.
- Provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Project Management business solutions. Strategically engage with client personnel.
- Connect the dots across workstreams and always be on the lookout for opportunities to improve process, remove friction and transform the business
- Planning and change management across project scope, timeline, and resources (specific to work stream and factory)
- Drive execution/workplan management of work stream/factory objectives.
- Maintain work stream milestones and dependencies.
- Manage and control the work stream critical path.
- Develop communication plan aligned with the program communications team.
- Host regular meetings with partners to understand milestones, tasks, risks, and issues.
- Document and drive action items or issues/risk mitigation as they arise.
- Execute impact analysis for key milestones/outcomes At-Risk or Off-Track and Develop and monitor Go to Green plans.
- Align with PMO and manage all compliance requirements for the work stream.
