Senior Information Technology Project Manager

Strategic Staffing Solutions; Charlotte (NC); Remote; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Staffing Solutions in Charlotte, NC seeks an IT Project Manager with 10+ years of experience to lead large, enterprise applications from planning through execution. The role includes managing scope, schedule, cost, quality, and security, with a strong focus on budgeting and funding oversight.

The position is a 12‑month contract, fully remote with quarterly in‑person planning sessions for alignment. W2 employment only; C2C is not offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, CIS, or related field.
• 10+ years of project management experience.
• Experience with hybrid waterfall and scrum methodologies.
• Experience in scheduling, cost controls, risk and issue management.
• Ability to gather requirements and support IT Business Analysts.
• Ability to motivate teams and manage conflicts.
• Vendor management to ensure SOW milestones.
• Oversee testing to achieve UAT signoff.

Responsibilities

• Create, staff and lead project teams with cross‑functional coordination.
• Establish and maintain stakeholder communications and status reporting.
• Plan projects covering scope, schedule, cost, safety, and quality.
• Execute projects within scope, cost, and schedule; manage plans and governance.
• Deliver compelling presentations to senior management and sponsors.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Team leadership

Scheduling & cost controls

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or CIS

Job description

Location: Charlotte, NC - Fully virtual with quarterly in person planning sessions.

Duration: 12 Month Contract

Pay: $60-70/hr W2

W2 ONLY, NO C2C

Must be in or near Charlotte, NC.

Overview

Seeking a hands‑on experienced IT Project Manager with 10+ years of experience in implementing large scale, complex enterprise applications. The successful candidate will be responsible for management of all phases of project planning and execution to ensure project success factors are met. These include but are not limited to scope, schedule, cost, quality, environmental, safety, communications, security, and integration. In addition, this position is highly involved in the funding management and budgeting of the project / program responsible.

Responsibilities

• Create / Staff / Lead Project Team. Sr PM's provide leadership, oversight, direction, management, delegation, and coordination with various internal and external organizations that are providing services to the project. Sr PMs manage matrixed members of the team daily. They interface with functional leaders of matrixed team members regarding placement, development and conflict resolution.
• Establish and maintain communications among all project/program’s stakeholders. Structure, lead, or assist in project related meetings to ensure open communication between team members, key stakeholders, and management. Prepare, communicate or report monthly project status, kickoff meetings, weekly and monthly required communication. Assure Project Plans, appropriate reporting means are developed and communicated according to PMCoE Standards and Business Unit implementing procedures. Effectively communicate with appropriate management / governance team.
• Plan assigned project (s) including scope, schedule, cost, safety, and quality aspects. Champion the process of project planning including scope and work definition, estimating, schedule formation, monitoring, cost control measures, procurement/contracting strategies, equipment selection, start-up and commissioning plans, integration processes, and warranty management as applicable.
• Execute projects according to plans within approved scope, cost and schedule constraints. Includes objectives, stakeholders, scope, roles and responsibilities, assumptions and constraints, deliverables, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), schedule, external communication, regulatory strategy, procurement strategy, contractor and supplier strategy, resource plans, budget, lessons learned, risk plan, quality plan, safety plan, environmental plan, security plan, integration plan, data management plan, communications and reporting plan, change management, and project close out.
• Effective Presentation Skills. Ability to create, develop and deliver project presentations to Senior Management / project sponsors.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science\Computer Information Systems or related field and 10+ years of project management, decision making, critical thinking and problem solving experience.
• Demonstrated strong experience working with hybrid waterfall and scrum methodologies.
• Demonstrated strong expertise in project related scheduling, project and cost controls, quality, risk and issue management.
• Demonstrated experience creating work break down structure based on defined scope and creates work schedule and dependencies and durations accordingly.
• Ability to assist IT Requirements/Business Analyst(s) with information gathering tasks and extracting requirements from project team.
• Ability to motivate team members to accomplish set goals. Manages conflict among project team members.
• Ability to oversee and ensure vendor(s) is delivering per executed Project SOW milestones.
• Ability to oversee and ensure technical team is delivering per documented IT project requirements.
• Ability to oversee and ensure testing team appropriately plans and executes test phases to meet UAT signoff.

Nice to Have

• Regulated utility energy services experience
• Masters – business (MBA), project management, or equivalent
• PMI (PMP) / CMII / AACE / Utility Technical Certifications
• Experience with Learning Management system implementations

Key Attributes

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to work in a team environment and communicate effectively with various stakeholders.
• Self-motivated and able to manage multiple priorities.
• Commitment to maintaining and improving system reliability and performance.