IT Infrastructure Project Manager

City of Philadelphia • Philadelphia, PA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Office of Innovation & Technology (OIT) is the central IT agency for the City of Philadelphia. OIT oversees all major information and communications technology initiatives for the City of Philadelphia, aiming to increase the effectiveness of the IT infrastructure. OIT's Project Management Office (PMO) assists departments in implementing significant technology projects and manages infrastructure or IT departmental initiatives. IT Infrastructure Project Managers are leaders of transformative IT projects, responsible for analyzing business needs, organizing around problems, remediating troubled projects, and ensuring new initiatives are planned, launched, and executed correctly. Projects range from simple software updates to large-scale enterprise platform implementations.

Requirements

• Completion of a Bachelor’s degree program at an accredited college or university with a major course work in Computer Science, Information Technology or a closely related field.
• PMP and/or equivalent Project Management Certification or Master’s Certificate in Project Management.
• 5 years of generalized Information Technology experience (can be concurrent with above).
• Minimum of 5 years Project Management experience managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects.
• Demonstrate leadership qualities such as conflict/issue resolution, the ability to run a project or serve as project manager on a program team and can ensure a successful project lifecycle.
• Communicate (verbally and in writing) effectively with stakeholders and senior business leadership of departments and agencies participating in this project.
• Organize and work effectively with project teams of staff from department and agencies participating in this effort.
• Demonstrate experience and relevant expertise in the design and building of distributed and enterprise solutions.
• Plan, organize and direct the work activities of outside consultants and/or systems analysis and programming personnel assigned on a team.
• Demonstrate presentation skills, strategic thinking, and high professional ethics.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, departmental officials, outside consultants and vendors.
• Knowledge of the principles of project management, systems delivery life cycle and budgeting.
• Knowledge of concepts and applications of servers, storage, mainframes, monitoring, ITIL, metrics and performance management, disaster recovery, data center facilities management, managed services, and cloud computing.
• Knowledge of IT project management best practice, principles and techniques (PMBOK).

Responsibilities

• Develop, clarify and manage the scope of projects, define contract deliverables and achieve targeted outcomes.
• Ensure project requirements are achieved in a timely fashion and within budget guidelines.
• Assemble project team, identify needed resources, assign responsibilities and develop timeframes to facilitate successful completion of project activities and deliverables.
• Determine project costs/ensures delivery on time and within budgetary guidelines.
• Ensure compatibility and consistency with existing architectural and enterprise standards.
• Perform cost/benefit analysis of actions and initiatives.
• Schedule and document meeting minutes.
• Follow the OIT Project Management practice and prescribed SDLC.
• Prepare status reports, status summaries and dashboards for presentation to mid and senior level management.
• Provide support, coaching and mentoring on project management best practices, as requested for project coordinator associates.

Benefits

• 25% tuition discount program for City employees (and sometimes spouses and dependents as well) in partnership with area colleges and universities
• Comprehensive health coverage for employees and their eligible dependents
• Wellness program offers eligibility into the discounted medical plan
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays
• Generous retirement savings options

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level