Technology Project Manager

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading and delivering complex, high-profile IT projects across the company and its affiliated organizations, ensuring alignment with institutional strategy and successful execution across areas such as software development, infrastructure, cloud computing, networking, and security. This role oversees the full project lifecycle, including developing business cases, managing budgets, timelines, risks, and stakeholders, and maintaining governance standards using established project management methodologies. In addition to project delivery, the position drives continuous improvement of portfolio and governance processes, manages vendor contracts and procurement efforts, and provides clear communication and reporting to senior leadership. The Senior Project Manager also plays a key leadership role by mentoring and training project managers across the organization, helping to elevate project management capabilities and standardization. Operating in a highly collaborative and visible environment, this individual serves as a liaison across diverse teams, balancing technical expertise with business strategy, and ensuring projects support the company’s mission of advancing education, research, and innovation.

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- Minimum of four years of experience managing progressively more complex IT projects in applications, infrastructure and networking, and comprehensive understanding of the underlying technologies.
- Demonstrated project management skills.
- Experience with enterprise application development, SDLC processes, Agile and DevOps methodologies, re-engineering and process improvement involving broad-based information systems and utilizing tools and techniques to effect business change.
- Experience in deploying large, complex systems implementing business process redesign.
- Experience in project and software development lifecycles and corresponding tools such as issue tracking systems, configuration management systems, requirements management systems and project management systems.
- Demonstrated ability to manage large technical projects within a team environment.
- Ability to manage a diverse range of activities in a very visible and pressured environment, exercising independent judgment in resolving problems.
- Demonstrated excellent communication skills, technical documentation skills, communication skills, and personal interaction abilities.
- Ability to speak and write about technical and non-technical issues for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Expertise with web publishing, collaboration, database, spreadsheet and word processing applications.
- Experience communicating with senior leadership and management through all project processes, during priority setting, and providing project status.

- Education, work experience: Describe education and/or work experience beyond the minimums that would be ‘desirable’ but not required to satisfactorily perform the position’s duties and responsibilities.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt certification
- ITIL Foundations V3 certification
- Experience in a research university or large enterprise, with both centralized and distributed IT teams
- Experience implementing/executing IT governance process.
- Equivalent education/experience may substitute for all minimum qualifications.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.