Platform Services Project Manager

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Job#: 3027634

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Location: Remote (Preference for Pittsburgh-based candidates)e

Duration: 6 Month Contract to Permanent Hire

About Us

Our client is a leading fashion retail company dedicated to delivering the latest trends and exceptional experiences to our customers. The demands for our teams are increasing every day and we are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Platform Services Project Manager to join our dynamic team.

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Platform Services Technology Project Manager to lead complex, enterprise-scale initiatives that empower our engineering and product teams. The Platform Services Project Manager will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of platform infrastructure projects-planning hardware replacements, data platforms, and cloud services-ensuring reliability, scalability, and security. As the "glue" bridging technical teams and business stakeholders, the Platform Services Project Manager will drive infrastructure improvements and updates that enable faster product delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Scope & Lifecycle Planning: Define project goals, milestones, and deliverables in alignment with business objectives while managing the critical path, resource allocation, and complex dependencies.
• Stakeholder & Platform Partnership: Collaborate deeply with Product and Engineering teams to deliver reusable platform components, ensuring that internal infrastructure scales alongside business growth.
• Communication & Compliance Reporting: Act as the primary liaison for stakeholders, delivering transparent progress reports, requirements documentation, and audit trails to satisfy internal standards.
• Execution, Risk, & Change Management: Proactively monitor milestones and manage scope changes, developing contingency plans to mitigate risks and leading user adoption efforts for new platform features.
• Operational Excellence & Tooling: Develop and implement standardized best practices and project management tools to streamline execution, improve team velocity, and ensure consistency across the platform services org.
• Continuous Improvement & Post-Mortems: Lead comprehensive project post-mortems to analyze both successes and failures, translating those insights into formal recommendation reports and long-term process improvements.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Supervise and motivate project team members and contractors, influencing them to take accountability for their work and fostering a culture of high performance.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5 years of direct work experience in a project management capacity, including all aspects of process development and execution.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) is strongly preferred.
• Experience with fashion retail industry operations and IT systems is highly desirable.
• Experience in platform modernization or cloud migration projects.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Proficiency with project management software (e.g., Atlassian Cloud - specifically Jira and Confluence, Miro, ).
• Proficiency with Google Workspace.
  
  

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work with a leading fashion retail brand.
• A collaborative and supportive work environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
  
  

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.