Program Manager - REQ Solutions : Job Details

Job Title: Program Manager

Location: East Aurora, NY

Duration: 12 Months Contract + High Possibility of Extension

Shift: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM [Hybrid - 3 days/week (1st couple of weeks full-time in the office)]

Pay Rate: $52.17/Hr

NOTE: Local candidates who can work on W2 basis without any sponsorship are encouraged to apply

Nice to Have

• Cybersecurity
• Disaster Recovery
• IT Infrastructure

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Establish, refine, and report on program schedule, including management of individual workstream timelines, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Facilitate team meetings for various program workstreams, ensuring deliverable progress is captured and driven to agree upon timeline, and minutes from meetings are captured and shared as appropriate.
• Manage financial tracking and planning for program expenses, including reconciliation of invoices against planned capital and operational expenses, tracking and maintenance of purchase requests against program workstream budgets, and updating budgets and cash flow forecasts.
• Track deliverable status for data center, compute, network, storage, database, cloud, and security workstreams and manage past due items to closure
• Summarize progress, compile materials, and lead program steering committee discussions, ensuring to raise risks and actions to the committee for decision in and support.

Desired experience:

• Ability to manage multiple workstreams/projects at once - with ability to successfully navigate context switching between related but separate efforts.
• Foundational understanding of the infrastructure and security domains, including exposure to compute, network, storage, data center, and security projects
• Experience with disaster recovery or business continuity topics are a plus

These are the skills youll bring with you:

• Bachelors degree, preferably in a technical field, and a minimum of ten years of work experience, and at least 5 years program related work experience.
• Must have excellent listening and persuasive skills to both understand and expedite where necessary.
• In addition, people skills must be used in handling stakeholders in a positive manner regardless of the situation.
• Ability to organize people, the ability to influence, and outstanding ability to communicate and facilitate.
• Proven knowledge and experience with formal project management, including use of project management tools.
• Must have good writing skills.