Infrastructure Project Manager

Akkodis is seeking an Infrastructure Project Manager for a contract position with our Fortune 500 banking client.

Rate: $70 - $75/hr W2. The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Location: Can sit in Plano, TX (onsite 3 days a week)

Overview:

This role is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivery of defined deliverables which usually requires engagement from multiple teams such as a project or smaller program. Key responsibilities include communicating the work objectives, coordinating delivery, managing risks, ensuring compliance to standards, and providing end to end visibility into the health of the deliverables. This role ensures execution and delivery meets the clients expectations in terms of the functionality, quality, timeline and cost. They facilitate sync points across multiple organizations to enable delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Coordinate and facilitate routines to support delivery (for example, kick offs, status reviews, stakeholder meetings, change controls, tollgates, and so on).

Plan and coordinate delivery and dependencies across multiple teams.

Facilitate dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the defined deliverables.

Promote/facilitate communication and collaboration across organizations to support the deliverable completion and timeline.

Gather/facilitate status updates for the deliverables to stakeholders and leadership pertaining to delivery, risks/issues, and schedule.

Ensure that execution is aligned with deliverable requirements by working with the sponsor/stakeholders.

Ensure deliverables comply with Enterprise Change Management standards.

Support resource planning for delivery/execution.

Required Skills

Ability to work with others and manage disparate teams globally

Ability to manage the successful execution of technical solutions whether by a single team or multiple teams

A proven track record in a similar role

Good interpersonal skills; positive attitude; team player; flexible

Must be able to face off to business and technology leaders

Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to lead meetings, follow-up, negotiate and resolve ambiguity

Keen attention to detail and strong sense of ownership and accountability for work

Motivated to work closely and cooperatively with other team members of varying levels of seniority and experience

Must be a self-starter and have the ability to work with little to no supervision

Desired Skills

Strong Project Management Skills

Experience of large-scale complex infrastructure projects

Understand components of hosting: OS, servers, storage, databases, load balancing, DMZ

Jira Confluence Knowledge

MS Project, MS Excel and MS Power Point

Extensive data analysis and associated presentation

Infrastructure delivery projects (servers, storage, network, etc.)

Top must Have Skillsets Required:

Knowledge of programs and projects frameworks

Experience with large-scale complex projects

Managing matrix resources

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.

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· Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

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