IT Project Lead

Seeking an experienced IT Project Lead with a background supporting data center operations projects and on-prem data center migrations to AWS cloud services. The Project Lead will play a pivotal role in leading and executing complex technical projects, ensuring their successful delivery within scope, schedule, and budget. This role requires a deep understanding of Agile principles, exceptional project management skills, leadership capabilities, and effective communication to collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
 
7 years Required            

• Extensive experience performing all aspects of IT project management duties in large data center environments, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget.

• Possess a strong understanding of the technical aspects of the projects being managed within an Agile context and possess an understanding of data flows in an enterprise.
• Solid working knowledge of MS Office suite of applications including Project.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to facilitate effective communication between team members and stakeholders.
• Excellent at monitoring project deliverables and milestones to ensure they are met according to the project plan.

• Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders, breaking them down into manageable iterations. Develop and maintain a well-defined product backlog and ensure Timely delivery of prioritized features.
• Solid working with IT procurements, budget, forecasts and analysis for the different projects.
• Experience working closely with internal and external vendors and/or service providers to ensure our operations requirements are appropriately provisioned.
• Solid experience migrating an on-premise data center to Cloud Services (AWS preferred).
• Expert level planning, documenting and identifying project goals and tasks to ensure on-time delivery.
• Effective leadership, organization and time management skills.
• Expert at communicating with stakeholders to eliminate blockers and potential risks.
• Champion Agile principles and practices throughout the project lifecycle. Lead Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives. Guide the team in adopting and adhering to Agile methodologies.

• Experience working on government fiscal and budget management supporting data centers.
• Experience with senior level leadership reporting and communication. Familiar with various levels of reporting tools.
• Experience using Remedy, ITSM, PPM, Archer, Jira and ServiceNow.
• Experience preparing and tracking security exemption requests.