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Senior Project Manager
Dow Jones
Princenton, NJ, United States
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Job Description:
Summary:
Dow Jones is looking for for a Senior Project Manager that is responsible for managing multiple priority projects within the Technology group. As a Senior Project Manager, your job is to plan, forecast, oversee and document all aspects of the specific project you are working on and to assist more junior members who are also managing projects within the Technology group. Senior Project Managers may work with management and multiple groups to ensure the scope and direction of each project is on schedule. This position will also assist with various departmental reporting needs. The successful candidate will have overseen and managed large-scale infrastructure programs over multiple sites and phases including cloud-relate programs. The candidate will be experienced in presenting technical material to technical and non-technical staff, as well as, to senior management.
Responsibilities:
• Lead the planning and implementation of the project
• Facilitate the definition of project scope and deliverables
• Develop detailed schedules, work plans and resource maps
• Produce spend plans and monthly forecasts
• Manage all required resources such as budgets, outside vendor and dependencies, and act as the single point of contact for major areas of the business
• Provide clear but thorough verbal and written communications to stakeholders at all levels
• Proactively identify, manage and resolve issues and risks
• Liaison with internal cross-functional teams – Finance, Product, Technology, Infrastructure , Legal, Information Security, etc
• Manage multiple projects at the same time
• Ensure project stakeholders and management are kept appropriately informed of project status and that there is sufficient record of meetings and decision-making
Work Experience / Knowledge:
• Deep experience managing programs involving infrastructure transformation, including cloud migrations (public & private), server consolidation, software migrations, or data center consolidations/eliminations
• Experienced leader, mentor and coach with proven ability to lead multiple geographically dispersed cross-functional teams to manage large, complex projects and consistently complete them with quality, on time and within budget
• Effective team player with exceptional organizational and communication skills
• Ability to work in an Agile or Waterfall environment and have a solid understanding of SDLC
• Ideal candidate is a self-starter, confident, energetic, positive, focused, dependable, adaptable, proactive, resourceful and possesses a “can do” attitude
• Ability to work well under timeframe pressure, handling multiple projects at the same time and posting colleagues on progress regularly
• At least 10 years directly related work experience in the Information Technology field is required
• At least 5 years of experience with program management, infrastructure transformation, data center rationalization, consolidation, relocation or migration is preferred
Required Skills:
• Strong program management and technical leadership skills with a track record of using different project management methodologies include Scrum / Agile / Prince2 / AGM and focus on infrastructure transformation, cloud migrations (Public & Private) data center migrations,consolidations, etc.
• Demonstrated holistic understanding of Datacenter Operations (i.e. Production operations, Server,Storage, Network, Database Management., Systems Management., Helpdesk, DR/Business recovery practices, etc.)
• Familiarity with functional operations of server, storage and network functions
• Knowledge of server platform technologies (i.e. Unix/Wintel/etc)
• Ability to manage a project plan, track milestones and identify dependencies
• Experiences in Amazon Web Services, Azure, or Virtualization in large scale environments.
• Strong communication & leadership skills
• Strong, concise documentation skills, reporting and presentation skill
• Skilled in using Google Documents (financial spreadsheets, presentations and collaboration tools)
Formal Education: (minimum requirement to perform job duties)
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar is preferred
• PMP or related certification is preferred
Company
Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 125 years and today has one of the world’s largest news gathering operations globally. It produces leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Financial News, DJX, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones VentureSource.Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).
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