Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Great Gray Trust Company is a leading independent provider of trustee and administrative services to Collective Investment Trusts. They are seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead and deliver technology-driven initiatives across the enterprise, focusing on infrastructure updates, system implementations, and technology integrations.
Responsibilities
- Lead and direct complex, cross-functional technology projects ensuring familiarity with scope, objectives and technical dependencies
- Partner closely with the Technology team as the primary project driver while maintaining alignment with Business Transformation standards and governance practices
- Establish and document clear roles and responsibilities for project team members across technology and business functions
- Develop and update project plans including tasks, milestones, responsibilities, dependencies, timeline, and status
- Communicate project plans to affected parties to ensure a common understanding, set proper expectations, and align technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Manage projects in Smartsheet, the Enterprise Project Management Software, ensuring consistent use of shared tools and templates across enterprise projects
- Facilitate project meetings and create & publish all project and meeting materials, including technology summaries accessible to non-technical audiences
- Identify, capture and escalate any project issues, risks, actions, and blockers, including those with technical complexity or cross-functional impact
- Monitor project work and execute change control where necessary
- Manage project budget, including vendor and licensing costs, where applicable
- Develop and execute change management plans to support technology adoption across impacted teams and business units
- Coordinate the integration of new technologies, platforms, systems into the Great Gray environment
- Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to executive management
- Interact with employees at all levels of the organization as well as external technology vendors and partners involved in projects
- Manage changes to project scope and schedule
- Complete other related duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, a business-related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 6-10 years of business or technology experience
- Minimum 6 years of project management experience, with a focus on technology projects
- Demonstrated experience managing a variety of IT project types, including infrastructure or architecture updates, system implementations, Corporate IT changes and technology or personnel integrations
- Experience working closely with or embedded within a Technology team as a primary stakeholder is required
- Proficiency in Atlassian Jira, Smartsheet, Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Familiarity with IT domains such as cloud platforms, cybersecurity, networking, and software development lifecycles
- Ability to translate technical concepts and project details for non-technical stakeholders and executive audiences
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to negotiate, influence, and gain consensus across all organizational levels and functional team types
- In-depth knowledge of project management methodology, including waterfall, agile, and hybrid approaches
- Strong interpersonal skills with a track record of building effective relationships within technology, business functions and 3rd party relationships
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity
- Entrepreneurial mindset to bring best practice ideas to the team
- Your standards reflect our core values: Growth Mindset, Disciplined Curiosity, Grit, Results Ownership, Collaboration
- Experience in the financial services industry or technology industry is preferred
- Experience working with or managing projects in Smartsheet is preferred
- PMP and Agile certification a plus
Benefits
- Be an integral part of a high-growth organization!
- Competitive compensation package
- Group medical, dental and vision insurance
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance
- Annual well-being stipend
- Eligible employees may also contribute to a 401(k) plan with an advantageous employer contribution model, upholding our mission to support our employees in retirement
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