Project Manager - Contingent

In this contingent resource assignment, you may:
Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Project Management. Consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long‑term, large‑scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking. Provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Project Management business solutions.

Strategically engage with client personnel.

Required Qualifications:

7+ years of Project Management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

The Project Manager 5 role will support the Data Center Modernization & Simplification (DCMS) program and will be responsible for developing, implementing, and executing the delivery plan for DCMS cloud migration work streams and factories. This is a highly experienced program management/execution professional with a deep understanding of enterprise technologies and its application in financial services vertical, with the ability to effectively communicate technical delivery to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Strong experience in business transformation, simplification, and modernization with a get stuff done attitude and drive cultural change.
• Experience managing in a complex, matrixed environment and comfortable leading and executing through influence.
• A can‑do attitude and an agent to drive velocity and change.
• Agile & iterative delivery and tools expertise for complex, enterprise‑wide initiatives (i.e., Jira and Confluence).
• Deep expertise in strategic problem‑solving and project management.
• Translating technical delivery into actionable communication for senior stakeholders.
• Data Center build out, Neighborhoods, cloud migration, app modernization/transformation and executive communications.
• Subject matter knowledgeable in one or more technical area – Change Integration/Change Delivery, Dev Sec Ops , Infrastructure‑As‑Code, x86/ARM/GPU, Container/K8, Virtual Machines, Networking, DMZ, Databases, Storage, Messaging Middleware, API Gateways, Batch/ETL, Data Lake House, AI/ML, Mainframe, Public Cloud
• Experience strategically engaging with all levels of professionals and managers across multiple lines of businesses and serve as an experienced advisor to leadership.
• Highly effective and proven consultative leader with strong business and data‑driven acumen, to drive continuous improvement in a data‑driven way.

• Connect the dots across work streams and always be on the lookout for opportunities to improve process, remove friction and transform the business
• Planning and change management across project scope, timeline, and resources (specific to work stream and factory)
• Drive execution/workplan management of work stream/factory objectives.
• Maintain work stream milestones and dependencies.
• Manage and control the work stream critical path.
• Develop communication plan aligned with the program communications team.