Job Purpose
As a Cloud Project Manager, you will be responsible to deliver projects that span across one or more business units. Will manage resources, schedules, and financials throughout the project's life cycle. This includes management of issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.
The Cloud Project Manager will run the project on a day-to-day basis, coordinate between delivery teams, make sure that the project produces the required deliverables within the specified constraints of time and cost, and achieve the desired results.
Responsibilities
Collaborates with stakeholders to document project scope, deliverables, goals, risks, blockers, success measures, and estimated resources needed.
Ensures that projects remain in-scope and meet budgetary, scheduling, and quality requirements.
Creates, manages, and distributes project communications artifacts like charters, schedules, and budgets.
Provides project status updates at predetermined time intervals to all stakeholders.
Communicates routinely to management, customers, project team members, and other stakeholders, actively soliciting and addressing customer and project team feedback.
Assists in business development efforts to create project proposals, RFPs, estimates, and schedules.
Sets and monitors project budgets and staffing requirements.
Ensures adherence to legally binding requirements.
Plan, schedule, monitor, and report on activities related to the project, including subcontractor monitoring.
Establishes key project criteria metrics.
Develop project control and reporting procedures and manage changes in operational plan.
Plans and leads status review meetings, which may include internal team members, vendors, and customers.
Understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs.
Continue professional development (technical and personal) in order to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices.
Resolves technical and operational issues as required.
Profile and Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in project management, business management, or related area of study.
5-7 years of experience as a Technical Project Manager or similar position responsible for defining and managing project scope, timelines, profitability, and effective delivery of products or services.
2 years' experience dealing with Cloud Financial Management (FinOps).
Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies, and methods.
Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in managing critical and complex projects.
Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and leading department teams.
Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment, promoting a teamwork mentality and applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles.
Experience in managing delivery of customer-facing and internally facing products or services.
Experience in delivering projects using Agile, PMI or PMP framework.
Intermediate to advanced proficiency with industry-standard word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software programs.
Technical Skills -
PMI or PMP certification or similar from an accredited organization
SCRUM Certified
Azure or AWS Fundamentals Certified
Min 1 year of hands-on Cloud Technical Experience
Cloud FinOps Certification preferred
Familiarity using Power BI Reporting Tool#J-18808-Ljbffr