Senior Project Manager (P-171)

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We aim to find the perfect match. As agents, we pair our talent with our US clients, not only by their technical skills but as a cultural fit. Our core competency is to find the right talent fast.

This role is available to candidates located within the United States. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or hold a valid U.S. work authorization to be considered. 

Role summary

You will own the end-to-end delivery and project control of multiple complex infrastructure engagements for external enterprise clients. This role requires a proactive, adaptable Project Manager who can drive execution across global environments while maintaining strong governance, risk management, financial control, and executive-level communication.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery and project control of multiple concurrent, complex infrastructure projects.
• Develop and maintain detailed Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), schedules, dependencies, milestones, and critical paths.
• Lead projects across infrastructure domains including data centers, networking, security, storage, virtualization, cloud, and Unified Communications.
• Manage project scope, schedule, resources, financials, risks, dependencies, governance, and delivery quality.
• Proactively identify project risks and develop mitigation, contingency, and escalation plans before they impact delivery.
• Lead customer-facing project engagements, establishing strong relationships with clients, executives, technical teams, and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate multiple teams, environments, workstreams, and global sites to maintain alignment and execution.
• Develop and maintain resource plans to ensure effective allocation across concurrent projects.
• Manage project financial performance, including budgets, forecasts, profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates, and utilization.
• Establish effective project governance, reporting, communication, and decision-making processes.
• Monitor project performance and provide clear status, financial, risk, and delivery reporting to stakeholders and leadership.
• Drive project execution with a flexible, solution-oriented approach, adapting processes when needed to achieve successful customer outcomes.

Requirements – Must-haves

• 4+ years of experience as a Technical Project Manager managing complex infrastructure engagements.
• Proven experience in Project Control with end-to-end ownership across scope, schedule, resources, financials, risks, governance, and delivery.
• Experience in a Professional Services or Managed Services environment, with direct ownership of external customer-facing projects.
• Experience supporting global financial services customers or similarly complex enterprise environments.
• Strong infrastructure project management experience across Data Centers, Networking, Security, Storage, Virtualization, Cloud, and/or Unified Communications.
• Proven experience managing multiple concurrent projects, workstreams, environments, and/or geographically distributed sites.
• Strong experience with risk identification, mitigation, escalation, and ongoing risk management.
• Experience managing project financials, including budgets, forecasts, profitability, revenue, margins, and resource utilization.
• Strong project governance experience, including executive reporting, stakeholder management, change control, and delivery oversight.
• Experience developing detailed WBS, dependencies, resource plans, and critical path schedules.
• Excellent client-facing communication, presentation, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively drive projects, identify issues, recommend solutions, and take initiative with limited supervision.
• Strong organizational, critical-thinking, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Adaptable and solution-oriented approach, with the ability to adjust methodologies and processes based on project and customer needs.
• Proficiency with enterprise project management and reporting tools.

Nice-to-haves (optional)

• PMP and/or CAPM certification.
• Experience with multisite deployments involving Wireless, Wi-Fi, POS, data centers, or similar infrastructure.
• Experience with Empower, Clarity, or similar project financial management platforms.
• Experience managing Federal-sector technology projects.
• Experience leading large-scale infrastructure transformation or modernization programs.