What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at ConsultNet Technology Services and Solutions?
Title: Project Manager
Location : Remote (EST only)
Target Start Date : ASAP
Type: Contract
The Lead Project Manager will plan and execute several workstreams, acting as the strategic bridge between business goals and technical delivery. This internal and external facing role carries end-to-end project ownership, stakeholder management, and delivery excellence across global teams.
The ideal candidate is a strong communicator and relationship builder who engages naturally with clients, executives, and cross-functional partners while managing complex projects involving trading data, cloud platforms, and financial systems. This is a 6-month engagement with no option to extend. Responsibilities
- Own and execute the full Trading Solutions Market Data investment program across all phases of the SDLC, with particular focus on several mission-critical projects.
- Serve as a client-facing and stakeholder-facing representative of the PMO, building trusted relationships internally and externally.
- Build project plans collaboratively with engineering and product development stakeholders.
- Establish and maintain a productive environment for cross-functional collaboration.
- Manage core project management areas as a self-starter, including requirements gathering, scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, communications, and stakeholder management.
- Collect and analyze feedback from clients, stakeholders, and partner teams to shape requirements, evaluate business benefits and costs, and drive meaningful business outcomes.
- Manage project and team budgets across CapEx and OpEx to support Trading Solutions total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Communicate project execution plans and status to key stakeholders in a visible, consistent manner.
- Partner with peer PMO organizations to build joint roadmaps for overlapping areas of responsibility.
- Establish transparent, repeatable, low-bureaucracy project management best practices for engineering and product development teams.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor's degree.
- PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or equivalent certification.
- 5 to 7 years of experience in project, program, or portfolio management.
- 5 to 7 years working directly with engineering teams, product development, senior stakeholders, and clients.
- Proven experience leading large, complex workstreams involving trading market data processing.
- Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and financial management of technology projects.
- Experience managing global, remote teams across multiple time zones through both direct and indirect influence.
- Intermediate knowledge of financially traded instruments.
- Demonstrated leadership and the ability to influence stakeholders and colleagues directly and indirectly.
- Practitioner of servant leadership.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts and features into business outcomes and benefits.
- Strong understanding of reporting structures, governance models, and executive-level communication.
- Desire for ongoing challenges and continuous learning about new business practices, technologies, and financial instruments.
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