Infrastructure Project Manager

This role is 12+ month contract and hybrid to downtown Chicago.Responsibilities:• Lead project team to successfully deliver project objective and benefits providing required oversight to ensure control of scope, schedule, resources and cost.• Provide structured project management leadership by establishing governance, ensuring clear roles and responsibilities for all project team members, defining phases, and identifying deliverables/milestones.• Develop project plans, provide executional leadership, and track progress on project goals.• Identify and manage areas of risk and dependencies including contingency planning and developing project health restoration plans.• Ensure adherence to project standards, IT controls, risk and regulatory requirements.• Provide timely communications on project status and health including scope, schedule, resource, and/or budget as well as articulate key risks/issues and associated impacts.Qualifications:• Experience leading infrastructure technology projects and leading teams to execute highly complex initiatives of significant scope, scale and risk to successfully deliver project objectives and benefits.• Program/project management expertise including working knowledge and application of Waterfall, Hybrid and/or Agile methodologies.• Skillful in adopting corporate project management standards (which incorporate PMI standards), IT controls, risk and regulatory requirements.• Demonstrated ability leading multiple concurrent projects.• Adept at navigating a matrixed environment, influence, inform, and collaborate with all levels of the organization.• General familiarity with infrastructure technology (Servers / Storage / Network / Database / Middleware).• Familiarity working with PPM Tools such as Clarity and other tools including Service Now, Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.• Solid working knowledge of MS Office Suite including MS Project, SharePoint, and Teams, etc.•PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) or Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification• Experience in a large financial services firm or highly regulated industry a plus• Experience leading application development initiatives• Network project experience preferred