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 achieve strategic client goals, prepare project schedules, scope, and resource forecasts, and drive delivery within commercial constraints. Facilitate workshops to define requirements and embed Agile, Kanban, and DevOps frameworks across hybrid and waterfall environments. Continuously enhance team governance, reporting, and processes while utilizing Jira for tracking. Operate in a 6-12-month contract role 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
- 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
- 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
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