Senior Project Manager
HybridWellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand
Job Summary
Manage, lead, and influence technical project teams, vendors, partners, and clients to deliver outcomes while mitigating risk and ensuring quality. Work with stakeholders to identify opportunities, manage hybrid and waterfall methodologies including Scrum, Agile, and DevOps frameworks, and drive continuous enhancement of governance and reporting processes. Prepare and track project schedules, scope, resource forecasts, and finances to deliver roadmaps within commercial constraints. Initiate and lead client workshops to define requirements, utilizing Jira and burn-down reports for progress tracking. This role involves a 6-12-month contract for a Senior Project Manager based in Wellington or Auckland, requiring government security clearance and onsite availability when needed.
Required Qualifications
- NZ citizen or permanent resident
- based in Wellington or Auckland
- eligible for government security clearance
- having spent the last 5+ years in based New Zealand
- Senior Project Manager with a successful track record of delivering technology projects within complex enterprise environments with high levels of process, complexity and governance
- Experience delivering large scale Azure infrastructure, data or security projects leveraging IaC (Terraform) and DevOps technologies
- High competency in using Jira, burn down reports and budget reporting
- You will be expected to be onsite with the client, when required, so please come in ready for a hybrid work environment
Desired Qualifications
- Experience delivering large scale Azure infrastructure, data or security projects leveraging IaC (Terraform) and DevOps technologies is highly beneficial
- Ability to translate complex & technical requirements into business outcomes
- Vendor background: You understand the complexities of delivering to a client and can be flexible with changing priorities
- Be skilled at adopting appropriate hybrid and waterfall methodologies as per individual environments, embedding application of Scrum, Agile, Kanban & DevOps frameworks across projects
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