Technical Project Manager

The successful candidate will work closely with external and internal stakeholders to facilitate smooth project planning and execution of IT & Information Security projects. You will have the chance to network with clients, vendors, and in-house personnel as well as form a dream team of Security and Networking experts

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Lead technical teams to schedule and cost tasks.
• Build, maintain and report on project plans that prioritise customer goals, objectives, and timelines
• Work with technical leads to control tasks and manage project resources/budget.
• Act as primary point of contact and interface directly with clients to provide regular project updates.
• Contribute collaboratively to the development and documentation of client IT/ Security roadmaps.
• Understand the short-term barriers to successful project delivery and facilitate meetings with internal/external teams to overcome them while communicating successes
• Identify and manage project risks and issues along with mitigation and/or workarounds.
• Own and manage technical projects with multiple dependencies, to meet stated and agreed objectives.
• Contribute to best practice documentation efforts for internal and external purposes.
• Own the outcomes of and manage the day-to-day delivery of project activities.

Education / Qualification

The successful candidate must have:

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree (Preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or any other IT related field).
• PMP, PRINCE2 (Agile project management certification) or 6 Sigma.
• IT/Security industry certification (CompTIA, Cisco, CISA, CISSP) would be a plus

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Significant experience in technical project management
• IT/Network/Security operations, IT Service Management, IT Consulting backgrounds preferred.
• Familiarity with general IT/ Networking architectures and concepts.
• Consultative mindset combined with project-based execution.
• Ability to understand and translate customers priorities, business objectives, process hindrances, and tactical operational difficulties
• Previous experience in a customer facing role, using interpersonal communication skills.
• Team player with excellent organisational abilities.