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Technical Project Manager

  • Location: San Francisco, 94111
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted about 1 year ago

Title: Technical Project Manager
Location: San Francisco, CA
Type: Contract

Job Description: 
The Technical Project Manager will lead technology infrastructure, security, as well as application deployment and development efforts. He/she will manage key initiatives within IT Infrastructure initiatives for the Bank. The individual must be extremely adaptable, independent contributor, and provide overall quality control to the project. Experience in leading technology solutions is required with a firm understanding of Waterfall and Agile methodologies. The role collaborates to define scope, requirements, project governance, design, testing, timeline, and budget, and adheres to company PMO standards.  The role requires exceptional communication skills and an ability to build and maintain working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved.  The position may lead/and or direct the work of others.

Responsibilities:

  • Serves as the project manager for technology  security, infrastructure, and software deployment initiatives.  
  • Defines, leads, and manages all aspects of the project, scope, budget, financial forecasting, scheduling, resources, and quality control of work products following company’s PMO standards and governance guidelines and project management best practices.
  • Develops and implements templates and standards for project deliverables and work products.
  • Documents meeting minutes and decisions, and tracks and manages project risks and issues.
  • Creates and presents status reports and executive dashboards on project progress and issues.
  • Facilitates impact analyses of current/existing technologies on the program.
  • May contribute and/or lead vendor relationship management for project-related vendors; supports enterprise vendor management standards and coordinates initial contracts, contract renewals, and addenda to contracts with key project vendors.
  • Supports management in data gathering for regulatory and third party reviews.
  • Complies with the Bank’s policies and enterprise project management standards.
  • Monitors project and/or program execution and escalates project issues as necessary.
  • Maintains project and/or program website and database, and issue and risk tracking logs.
  • Maintains a flexible work schedule
  • Perform other duties when assigned


Qualifications:

  • Must have a specialized degree in either Information Technology / Computer Sciences or an Engineering field.
  • PMP certification desirable 
  • CISSP certification desirable
  • 10+  years of combined project management and technical experience.
  • Formal training in project or program management 
  • Demonstrated ability to execute complex projects within budget and on time
  • Must possess strong interpersonal, organizational, team building, mentoring, and communication (written and verbal) skills
  • Ability to communicate concisely and briefly
  • Previous experience in:
  • Information technology and information systems
  • Banking
  • IT security and infrastructure projects
  • Advanced in MS Office, MS Visio, and MS Project
  • Ability to build relationships at all levels of the enterprise and with external vendors
  • Ability to work independently and with minimum direction
  • Ability to multi-task and respond to with multiple priorities.
  • Strong understanding of Agile and Waterfall 


Preferred Technical working knowledge with the following products:

  • Apache Kafka
  • AWS Cloud
  • RHEL Linux
  • Middleware Technologies: Appian Flightpath,  Google Apigee
  • MS Windows / SQL Server
  • File Transfer Technologies:  Seeburger
  • Control-M
  • Splunk
  • Solarwinds
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Dev tool stack (GitHub/Jenkins
  • General Networking
     

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Candidates will be responsible for following the client's COVID-19 protocols. Please refer to your MATRIX representative for specifics.

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At MATRIX, we expertly match talented professionals with job opportunities to elevate careers. Since 1983, we have placed thousands of professionals at innovative clients across every industry ranging from small startups to Fortune 50 companies. It’s why we’re a top 15 U.S. IT staffing firm and why our consultants rate us well above the industry average. People come to us for a job, and stay with us because of our top-notch consultant care.

For hourly W2 contract roles, MATRIX offers a highly competitive benefit package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, HSA, and 401(k) with pre and post-tax options. Please see https://www.matrixres.com/consultants-overview/benefits-and-payroll for more information. For direct hire placement with our clients, benefits will be offered in accordance with that particular client’s offerings. This may include PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K and other pre and post-tax options.

Motion Recruitment Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.