What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Project Manager position at Access Data Consulting Corporation?
Title: Project Manager, Senior
Duration: 12 months (Opportunity for extension/FTE)
Location: Primarily remote, with onsite meetings as required. (Local to Phoenix)
US Citizen/Green Card required
Overview
This role leads high visibility cloud migration, application modernization, and infrastructure projects. The Project Manager partners with engineering, architecture, security, DevOps, and vendor teams to plan and execute migration waves, modernize applications, and advance cloud adoption. Experience with Azure DevOps or similar tools is required, along with a strong background in AWS concepts, IAM, DR, backups, and vendor coordination.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead engineering, architecture, and DevOps teams to plan and deliver cloud migration waves, application refactoring, and supporting infrastructure work.
- Define project scope, objectives, budgets, timelines, and resource needs. Build roadmaps with architecture, security, and application teams.
- Partner with application owners, engineering, security, testing, and operations teams to integrate external systems with on prem or cloud environments.
- Track progress using Azure DevOps Boards or equivalent tools, managing user stories, bugs, epics, and releases.
- Manage vendor relationships, including SLAs, delivery performance, and issue resolution.
- Support teams in mapping technical, architectural, security, and cloud dependencies.
- Develop, maintain, and execute risk management plans.
- Ensure security policies and standards are embedded into project work.
- Support organizational change management and stakeholder communication.
- Create and maintain project artifacts such as schedules, charters, RACIs, training plans, test plans, and post mortems.
Required Qualifications
- 8 plus years of IT Project Management experience focused on cloud migration, application modernization, and infrastructure.
- Proficiency with Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar delivery tracking tools.
- Understanding of AWS concepts such as EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation.
- Experience with backup and DR in cloud or hybrid environments.
- Familiarity with IAM, RBAC, and least privilege principles.
- Experience managing external vendors.
- Excellent communication, organization, and stakeholder skills.
- Ability to work independently and drive alignment across technical and non technical teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field.
Preferred Qualifications
- SAFe certification or PMP.
- Experience in government, public sector, or regulated environments.
- Experience with NIST, FedRAMP, or other regulatory frameworks.
Work Environment and Tools
- Azure DevOps, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, MS Project.
- Hybrid work model, mostly remote.