Jr. IT Project Manager
Nexiva•Charlotte, NC
•Hybrid
About The Position
This role is for a Jr. IT Project Manager focused on Cloud Disaster Recovery for SMBC in Charlotte. The position involves leading the planning, coordination, and governance of cloud disaster recovery testing activities across a portfolio of applications. The goal is to ensure recovery exercises meet resiliency standards, recovery objectives, regulatory expectations, and internal governance requirements, while also driving stakeholder alignment, issue resolution, and successful test outcomes.
Requirements
- Proven experience in IT Project Management, Technical Program Management, Disaster Recovery, Technology Resilience, Infrastructure Operations, or Technology Governance.
- Strong understanding of cloud technologies, disaster recovery principles, application recovery testing, business continuity concepts, and operational resilience frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, stakeholders, and project dependencies within a complex technology environment.
- Experience developing and maintaining project plans, status reporting, risk management artifacts, executive communications, and governance documentation.
- Proficiency with project and workflow management tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, ServiceNow, and SharePoint.
- Excellent communication, organizational, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills.
- Must have cloud and disaster recovery experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience within financial services, regulated industries, or large-scale enterprise technology organizations preferred.
- PMP, Agile, Scrum, ITIL, Business Continuity, or related certification preferred.
Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate disaster recovery testing for multiple cloud-hosted applications, ensuring testing activities are planned, scheduled, executed, and documented in accordance with program requirements.
- Partner with application owners, cloud engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, business continuity, and business stakeholders to establish testing scope, objectives, recovery scenarios, and success criteria.
- Develop and maintain integrated testing schedules, project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and remediation tracking across a large application portfolio.
- Facilitate test planning meetings, readiness reviews, test execution bridges, post-test reviews, and governance forums.
- Coordinate recovery validation activities and ensure achievement of established RTO, RPO, and resiliency objectives.
- Track testing compliance, evidence collection, documentation quality, action plans, and regulatory readiness requirements.
- Communicate testing status, risks, issues, and recovery results to senior management and executive stakeholders through regular reporting and governance updates.
- Drive cross-functional coordination to resolve testing challenges, resource constraints, dependency impacts, and scheduling conflicts.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives related to cloud resiliency, recovery automation, testing standards, and governance processes.
- Maintain accurate inventory, testing metrics, dashboards, and program reporting for dozens of applications across multiple testing cycles.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
