Description
Infrastructure Project Manager
6-month initial contract
Dublin city centre/ Hybrid
Responsibilities:
1. Experience in the financial/insurance sectors is preferential.
2. Create roadmap/phases for the technology platform to address specific challenges or risks to take account of production stability, information security, software upgrades and patching, and regulatory obligations.
3. Responsible for infrastructure delivery (hardware, software, and supporting operational processes)
4. Use professional project management disciplines, processes, and tools
5. Leads or participates in the design of hardware infrastructure solutions, associated operational processes and provisioning of software environments.
6. Cross-training of the relevant infrastructure areas in the new technologies introduced.
7. In conjunction with enterprise, architects identify and recommend industry best practices including cost-benefit analysis and estimates for proposed solutions
8. Maintains knowledge of IT Infrastructure architecture, standards, and practices and consistently applies these standards including prototype solutions to verify capabilities for new systems maintenance and upgrades
9. Manage communications to ensure that issues and risks are controlled effectively and understood by stakeholders.
10. Define all resource requirements (services, people, hardware, and software)
11. Management and reporting of project budgets.
12. Adherence to technical (quality) governance standards in the delivery of projects.
13. Effective leadership of project teams both on and offshore.
Experience:
14. Minimum of five years of project management in implementing enterprise infrastructure and technology solutions.
15. Have a strong understanding of IT technical infrastructure, and software development (digital) technologies and be experienced in the management of IT projects and budgets.
16. Experience in managing technical infrastructure projects from a budget management and technical delivery perspective in particular
17. Experienced in Financial or Insurance industries.
18. Possess a broad technical knowledge base with a focus on strategic technologies
19. Management of a third-party technical supplier(s) for project delivery.
20. Possessing a good knowledge and understanding of IT technologies.
21. Highly committed to following formal project management disciplines
22. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
23. Ability to deal with both technical and business stakeholders
24. Strong facilitation and negotiation skills
25. Analytical and aptitude for attention to detail
26. Experience in leading projects in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies an advantage.