Senior Technical Project Manager

Cynet Systems•Frankfort, KY

21h

About The Position

The Senior Technical Project Manager leads complex technology projects aligned with IT tactical and strategic requirements. The role directs cross-functional technical teams and manages vendor relationships, using advanced project management methods to manage risk, track performance, and ensure quality delivery. It also mentors technical team members on project management frameworks and delivery practices. The position is suited to a project manager with application development and infrastructure experience who can work in ambiguous environments, establish governance, challenge incomplete requirements, and guide projects from initial request through operational handover. The role translates business and technical requirements into executable infrastructure strategies, coordinates engineering and operational teams, and maintains control of scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, and stakeholder expectations. Technical domains include data center, network, security, compute, storage, virtualization, and disaster recovery. The role establishes and maintains program governance, reporting, escalation, decision-making, and change-control processes; tracks program performance and readiness; and prepares executive reports, dashboards, decision papers, and recommendations. It facilitates steering committees, design and readiness reviews, risk workshops, and executive decision meetings. The position leads multidisciplinary teams, mentors project and technical personnel, and promotes program management practices, including OKRs and execution roadmaps, that align engineering delivery with long-term product strategy. Success is measured by delivery against approved scope, schedule, and budget; quality of requirements and delivery plans; timely risk mitigation; accurate executive reporting; successful production cutovers and operational handovers; effective cross-functional coordination and vendor performance; and measurable improvements in resilience, scalability, capacity, security, cost, or service performance.

Requirements

Active PMP and ITIL certifications.
At least 7 years of relevant project management experience managing technical and cross-functional business projects and teams in varied computing environments, such as SaaS and cloud.
At least 5 years of experience converting high-level business needs and requirements into system requirements.
Advanced knowledge of project management methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile, SAFe, SDLC, and ITIL, and their application in enterprise IT environments.
Significant experience delivering complex IT projects involving infrastructure, application and product development, cybersecurity, or regulatory compliance.
Proven ability to develop and execute project roadmaps, schedules, and resource plans aligned with technical and business goals.
Experience meeting regulatory, security-policy, and governance requirements, such as FedRAMP, NIST, and SOC.
Experience with active-active data center architectures and large-scale application migrations.
Experience leading data center consolidation, migration, modernization, or major infrastructure deployment initiatives.
Ability to coordinate development and review of high-level data center infrastructure architectures and design requirements.
Familiarity with IT service management, business continuity, disaster recovery, ERP, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
Proven ability to lead technical teams, manage vendor relationships, and align work with business and technical requirements.
Advanced skills in project analytics, reporting, and performance tracking using tools such as Jira, Power BI, and ServiceNow.
Expert knowledge of IT systems, architecture, and compliance frameworks, and ability to communicate risks and strategies to leadership.
Experience managing stakeholder engagement and change initiatives across technical and business domains.
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Ability to clearly communicate complex technical issues to executive, business, operational, and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience working with colocation providers, engineering consultants, general contractors, cloud providers, and managed-service organizations.
Ability to maintain governance, reporting, escalation, decision-making, and change-control processes.
Ability to track program performance and maintain integrated logs covering risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and decisions.
Ability to escalate unresolved risks, scope conflicts, budget pressures, resource constraints, and delivery concerns in a timely manner.
Ability to facilitate steering committees, design reviews, readiness reviews, risk workshops, and executive decision meetings.
Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams without relying solely on direct reporting authority.
Ability to mentor project managers, technical leads, analysts, and other program team members.
Experience designing and implementing IAM integrations, provisioning workflows, and access controls.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of training, education, and experience.
Professional certifications such as CAPM, CSM, PMI-ACP, PgMP, SAFe Practitioner, or AWS/Azure cloud certifications.
Experience with full lifecycle implementation and upgrades for financial systems such as ERP, billing, and general ledger platforms.
Strong knowledge of data center architecture, enterprise network infrastructure, cybersecurity, compute, storage, virtualization, and disaster-recovery concepts.
Ability to evaluate program alternatives and communicate cost, schedule, risk, operational, and technical tradeoffs to leadership.
Ability to incorporate compute, storage, virtualization, network, cybersecurity, facilities, cloud, and application requirements into an overall solution.
Ability to facilitate technical alignment among data center architects, facilities engineers, network and security teams, platform teams, application owners, operations, and external consultants.
Ability to support active-active, primary-secondary, disaster-recovery, high-performance computing, and critical production infrastructure strategies.
Ability to review design assumptions for availability, scalability, maintainability, redundancy, recoverability, capacity, and operational readiness.
Ability to identify infrastructure dependencies and integration requirements across network, security, compute, storage, application, and facility environments.
Ability to develop and govern migration frameworks for critical applications, infrastructure platforms, and data center services.
Ability to coordinate LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, software-defined networking, routing, firewall, remote-access, and unified-communications workstreams.
Ability to guide teams in evaluating infrastructure standards, technology lifecycles, automation opportunities, and future-state roadmaps.
Certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster, PMI-ACP, CISM, or technical certifications in AWS, Azure, or DevOps.
Familiarity with Jira/Azure DevOps, Confluence/SharePoint, Visio/Lucid, SQL tools, Postman, Control-M basics, and Azure or AWS cloud endpoints.

Responsibilities

Lead and deliver complex technology projects aligned with IT tactical and strategic requirements.
Lead cross-functional technical teams and manage vendor relationships to ensure successful execution.
Apply project management methodologies to manage risk, track performance, and ensure delivery quality.
Mentor technical team members on project management frameworks and project delivery.
Translate business and technical requirements into executable infrastructure strategies and challenge incomplete requirements.
Guide projects from initial request through operational handover, maintaining control of scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, and stakeholder expectations.
Develop and execute project roadmaps, schedules, and resource plans aligned with technical and business goals.
Establish and maintain program governance, reporting, escalation, decision-making, and change-control processes.
Track schedule, budget, scope, quality, resource capacity, benefits realization, operational readiness, and integrated RAID logs.
Prepare executive-level reports, decision papers, program dashboards, and recommendations; escalate unresolved risks and delivery concerns in a timely manner.
Facilitate steering committees, design reviews, readiness reviews, risk workshops, and executive decision meetings.
Coordinate architects, engineers, facilities teams, operations personnel, application owners, vendors, executive stakeholders, and external consultants.
Lead data center consolidation, migration, modernization, and major infrastructure deployment initiatives.
Coordinate development and review of high-level data center infrastructure architectures and design requirements.
Lead infrastructure assessments covering current-state architecture, operational maturity, service resilience, capacity, technical debt, and business-continuity risks.
Coordinate application client and dependency mapping, migration-wave planning, readiness reviews, cutover execution, rollback planning, and post-migration validation.
Support migration architectures, sequencing plans, coexistence strategies, rollback plans, and cutover requirements.
Ensure infrastructure, network, security, operations, facilities, and application teams are aligned before migration or production activation.
Establish entry and exit criteria for design, build, testing, commissioning, migration, and operational handover phases.
Provide program-level oversight for enterprise data center network and security architecture and coordinate related workstreams.
Incorporate cybersecurity, governance, risk, compliance, and operational requirements into program planning and design decisions.
Guide technical teams in evaluating infrastructure standards, technology lifecycles, automation opportunities, and future-state roadmaps.
Design and implement IAM integrations, provisioning workflows, and access controls.
Maintain accountability for program performance while coordinating multiple projects, vendors, and technical disciplines.
Define and drive program management best practices, including OKRs and execution roadmaps, to align engineering delivery with long-term product strategy.