Job Description

Role: Senior Infrastructure Project Manager EL2

Positions: 2

Client: Federal government agency

Contract Duration: 6 months

Extension term: 2

Location: Melbourne CBD VIC

Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain Baseline

Candidate must be an Australian Citizen

The Role

These positions are responsible for the delivery of a varied portfolio of projects. Each Project Manager will work alongside other Project and IT professionals to deliver to the business outcomes.

Each project manager will be working with a broad range of data centre network and computer, cloud and security technologies, with a wide variety of stakeholders and challenging timeframes and dependencies. This role will require extensive skills in driving delivery in a complex, constrained, high-availability environment with significant interdependencies and integrations to navigate.

Key duties and responsibilities

Within broad guidelines the candidate will be required to undertake the following (not limited to):

• Manage the delivery of assigned projects and programs, under a PRINCE2-based framework and represent allocated projects for all associated project meetings, and in particular:
• Manage scope in line with the Project and Program Plans and approved Designs
• Manage project documentation, in accordance with agency requirements
• Develop and manage the IT project schedule and engage relevant parties across the organization
• Co-ordinate project resources to deliver work packages and products.
• Coordinate the delivery of services and manage Design, Build, Testing, Transition to

Operations (including Go Live Documentation, where appropriate), Technology Change Management, Implementation and Post Implementation Review, as required

• Manage project and work-package level risks, issues, dependencies, changes and quality
• Work closely with portfolio, program managers and key stakeholders to ensure they are engaged and informed
• Act as main point of contact with internal and external stakeholders for the projects and work packages assigned
• Support financial tracking and reporting for the project including using the EPMO-endorsed project tracking tools
• Manage procurements of hardware, software and services as required for projects, including ensuring appropriate resourcing and funding is available for transition and operation.
• As and where necessary, organise and manage external IT services to complete the assigned projects.
• Facilitate knowledge capture and transfer as a consistent way-of-working.
• Utilise methods from Agile, ITIL and ADKAR daily
• Facilitate the onboarding of resources as appropriate etc.

Skills & Knowledge

Mandatory

• Familiarity with modern Data Centre, Cloud, Information, Communications and Security Technologies
• Certification with 1 or more Project Management methodologies.
• Knowledge of the PRINCE2 framework
• Management of large teams and partners to deliver complex projects
• Be a team player, working with the practices of the teams you work with, as appropriate
• Be customer focussed. Liaise with customers and deliver outcomes based on their needs and that defined in the project or work-package
• Familiarity with Microsoft Project and Jira in an enterprise context

Desirable

• Proven experience implementing site relocations, including to new data centres
• Certifications such as Cisco CCIE, TOGAF, or CISSP, AWS/Azure Solutions Architect.
• Familiarity with cost modelling.
• Working with Office365 including SharePoint, Teams and collaboration tools such as Gitlab
• Familiarity with Federal Government processes – including Procurement, Finance and Enterprise Project Management Office. 

If interested, please APPLY here or contact Sejal, Recruitment Consultant on scheema@talentstreet.com.au.