Talascend is currently seeking an Infrastructure Project Manager for a contract opportunity with our client in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Overview
The infrastructure project manager is responsible for planning, leading, organizing, and motivating project teams through waterfall, agile, or hybrid project management practices. They will enable the team to achieve high performance and quality in project delivery, providing exceptional business value to users. This role involves managing multiple high-visibility projects across various business units or teams, focusing on balancing agility and predictability to meet business goals.
Responsibilities
- Directly manage information technology projects supporting infrastructure, information security, business systems, operations, insights, data engineering, and analytics.
- Support project scope and schedule development and management to ensure timely delivery of value; organize and lead project status and working meetings; manage risks, issues, and escalations; and perform delivery planning and execution for assigned projects.
- Own project management responsibilities for two to four projects: build and manage project schedules based on scope and resource constraints; control scope and deliverables.
- Gather and provide project-level estimates and reporting, including status, risks/issues, and leadership escalations.
- Orchestrate team project delivery while holding teams accountable for commitments; identify and remove roadblocks to project work.
- Facilitate work across multiple technical teams, business units, third-party vendors, and other projects to achieve project goals and deliverables.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred.
- 3-5 years of information technology project management experience.
- 5+ years of experience in an IT-related field preferred.
- Sufficient understanding of waterfall, agile, and hybrid project management principles; ability to adapt methodologies to projects.
- Business and technical background to interface with technical teams and evaluate project risks and issues accurately.
- Knowledge of project facilitation, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and consensus building.
- Strong relationship management skills to effectively navigate a highly matrixed organization and motivate teams.
- Ability to prioritize, organize effectively, and manage multiple cross-functional teams.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) preferred. Agile certifications such as PMI-ACP or SAFe are helpful.
Preferred Qualifications
- Additional certifications in agile methodologies are considered a plus.
We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.
Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.
Pay range is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. Talascend also offers a variety of benefits including: health and disability insurance, 401(k), EAP, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, plan requirements, schedule type, and client work site mandates.
Talascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.