Our client, a large financial services firm, is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager for a 6 -month remote contract, with occasional onsite engagement as needed.
The Senior Project Manager will lead complex virtualization, infrastructure, and cloud transformation projects within a professional services environment. The ideal candidate brings robust Agile project leadership, deep experience with VMware?based solutions, and the ability to adapt to a proprietary services delivery model while driving measurable customer outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee end-to-end delivery of projects—ensuring they meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.
- Develop and maintain project artifacts including charters, scope documents, WBS, estimates, resource plans, budgets, schedules, risks, and issue logs across multiple workstreams.
- Direct and monitor daily project activities, identify resource needs, perform quality reviews, and escalate issues, as necessary.
- Apply Agile practices while adapting to the client’s proprietary services delivery methodology.
- Define and manage overall project risks and take corrective action in a proactive manner to mitigate risks and prevent issues
- Direct and monitor work efforts on a daily basis, identify resource needs, perform quality review; and escalate functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately.
- Provide clear and timely communication regarding the status of the project – schedule, budget, progress to date, risks etc. – to relevant stakeholders.
- Engage with sales and account teams to identify/drive account growth opportunities and drive product adoption.
- Drive continuous improvement of project processes – methodology, templates, best practices etc. based on lessons learned from projects.
Required Skills:
- Minimum of 5+ years’ technical program/project management experience delivering IT-enterprise solutions within a professional services organization.
- Solid experience working independently in a fast-paced environment on complex engagements across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Must be comfortable interfacing with customers and stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong history of leading IT infrastructure projects (networking virtualization, etc.), strong preference for VMware technologies (e.g., VCF, vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Aria Suite).
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proven Agile project delivery experience for enterprise-level customer engagements.
- Expert-level proficiency in project management tools like Clarity, Jira, or MS Project.
- PMP and/or Agile certifications (e.g., PMI-ACP, CSM, SAFe) strongly preferred.
- Ability to obtain a VMware VSP 9 certification within 30 days of hire.
- Ability to work remotely with occasional travel if needed.
- Education: BA/BS in Business, IT, or a related field.
ClearBridge Technology Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
We offer excellent benefits and compensation packages.
The expected hourly rate range for this role is: $65-$85 per hour
The posted range is an estimate, the actual compensation offer will be based on the candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications and will be in line with internal equity.