Senior IT Project Manager

Hydrogen Group; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 220,636,000 - 234,963,000; Full time

Job summary

Hydrogen Group is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager in Oakland, CA (Hybrid) for an initial 8-month contract. The role focuses on enterprise technology initiatives including endpoint management, cybersecurity, and infrastructure modernization with budgets and vendor management responsibilities.

You will lead cross-functional teams, manage risk, ensure regulatory alignment, and deliver executive-level status updates and governance artifacts.

Qualifications

• 8+ years IT project or program management experience.
• Experience leading large-scale infrastructure or software implementations.
• Experience with endpoint management or security deployments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project delivery including planning, scheduling, and execution.
• Develop and maintain project plans, budgets, forecasts, milestones, and metrics.
• Coordinate endpoint management deployments, configurations, testing, and rollouts.
• Oversee migration from legacy tools to modern enterprise platforms.
• Manage vendor relationships, SOWs, deliverables, and performance.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, compliance, ops, and business teams.
• Identify and mitigate risks, issues, dependencies, and variances.
• Ensure activities align with cybersecurity and regulatory requirements.
• Prepare executive dashboards, status reports, and steering updates.
• Drive QA, acceptance, and operational handoffs.

Skills

IT project management

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid PM

Vendor management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Project

Planisware

Jira

Tanium

Job description

Senior IT Project Manager
Oakland, CA (Hybrid)
Duration: initial 8 month contract
Pay: $77-82/hr
We are seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead enterprise technology initiatives focused on endpoint management, cybersecurity, infrastructure modernization, and compliance. This role will oversee project planning, budgets, schedules, resources, vendor relationships, risk management, and stakeholder communications to ensure successful implementation of enterprise technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project delivery, including planning, scheduling, resource allocation, governance, and execution.
• Develop and maintain project plans, budgets, forecasts, milestones, and performance metrics.
• Coordinate enterprise endpoint management deployments, system configurations, testing, and production rollouts.
• Oversee migration from legacy tools and processes to modern enterprise technology platforms.
• Manage vendor relationships, contracts, Statements of Work (SOWs), deliverables, and performance.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, compliance, operations, and business teams.
• Identify and mitigate project risks, issues, dependencies, and schedule or budget variances.
• Ensure project activities align with cybersecurity, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Prepare executive dashboards, status reports, project documentation, and steering committee updates.
• Drive quality assurance, project acceptance, and operational handoffs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• 8+ years of IT project or program management experience.
• 5+ years managing large-scale IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, or enterprise software implementations.
• Experience leading enterprise endpoint management or security platform deployments.
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid project management methodologies.
• Experience managing budgets exceeding $500,000 and coordinating cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication, presentation, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Planisware, Jira, or similar project management tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing or managing Tanium or similar enterprise endpoint management platforms.
• Background in cybersecurity operations, vulnerability management, endpoint security, or IT asset management.
• Familiarity with SOX, NERC-CIP, PCI, or other regulatory compliance frameworks.
• PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or equivalent certification.
• Experience with cloud initiatives, infrastructure modernization, or operating system lifecycle programs.
• Utility industry or critical infrastructure experience.