Sr. IT Project Manager

KellyMitchell Group; Maryland Heights (MO); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

401K offered

Job summary

KellyMitchell Group seeks an IT Project Manager to join a leading communications provider team in a hybrid environment. The role reports to the IT Program Manager and focuses on absorbing key project facilitation duties, managing budgets, and maintaining high-visibility schedules across cross-functional teams.

The ideal candidate will bring 5+ years of delivering complex enterprise initiatives, spanning infrastructure, software, and network deployments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading and delivering complex projects within large enterprise environments, with responsibility for project planning, execution, risk management, and stakeholder communication
• Experience using Jira and Confluence for project tracking, documentation management, status reporting, and cross-functional team collaboration
• Experience within the telecommunications or cable industry, with an understanding of industry-specific operations, technologies, and business processes
• Proven success managing technology-driven projects, including infrastructure, systems, software, network, or other technical implementations, rather than exclusively business-focused initiatives
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Project, with the ability to develop, maintain, and manage detailed project schedules, dependencies, resource plans, critical paths, and project milestones
• Recent experience leading projects using Waterfall methodologies, including structured planning, requirements management, project governance, and sequential delivery approaches
• Working knowledge of Agile and Scrum frameworks, with the ability to effectively collaborate with development teams operating in Agile delivery environments
• Experience working within hybrid project environments that incorporate both Waterfall and Agile practices, ensuring alignment across business, technical, and delivery teams

Responsibilities

• Managing approximately 2-3 large-scale technical projects concurrently
• Building and maintaining detailed project schedules in Microsoft Project and maintaining project tracking, workflows, and status information within Jira
• Owning project milestones, dependencies, risks, issues and action items
• Working across development, architecture, engineering, infrastructure and business teams
• Getting necessary information and decisions from highly utilized technical resources
• Managing and tracking project budgets
• Facilitating project meetings and documenting decisions/action items
• Ensuring project information and status are accurately maintained in Jira
• Preparing and maintaining executive/project reporting and status decks
• Communicating project health, risks, roadblocks and decisions clearly to leadership
• Coordinating vendors, contractors and external partners when applicable
• Understanding enough of the underlying technology to ask intelligent questions, identify dependencies and drive technical teams toward decisions
• Operating effectively in environments that may use Waterfall, Agile/Scrum or a combination of methodologies

Skills

Project management

SDLC experience

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional leadership

Budget management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Job Summary

Our client, a leading communication provider, is seeking a proactive IT Project Manager to join their team. Working directly under the leadership of the IT Program Manager, this role is critical to absorbing key project facilitation duties, managing budgets, and keeping high-visibility schedules on track. The ideal candidate will be a cross-functional technical project manager, with experience leading enterprise-wide initiatives. This is a highly visible role, so we are seeking someone with SDLC experience who has driven complex initiatives across multiple teams. This position is W-2 only. We are not open to working with third-party firms or C2C arrangements for this role.

Contract Details

Location: St. Louis, MO - Denver, CO - Charlotte, NC | Contract Length: Long-term | Work Model: Hybrid

Core Responsibilities

• Managing approximately 2-3 large-scale technical projects concurrently
• Building and maintaining detailed project schedules in Microsoft Project and maintaining project tracking, workflows, and status information within Jira
• Owning project milestones, dependencies, risks, issues and action items
• Working across development, architecture, engineering, infrastructure and business teams
• Getting necessary information and decisions from highly utilized technical resources
• Managing and tracking project budgets
• Facilitating project meetings and documenting decisions/action items
• Ensuring project information and status are accurately maintained in Jira
• Preparing and maintaining executive/project reporting and status decks
• Communicating project health, risks, roadblocks and decisions clearly to leadership
• Coordinating vendors, contractors and external partners when applicable
• Understanding enough of the underlying technology to ask intelligent questions, identify dependencies and drive technical teams toward decisions
• Operating effectively in environments that may use Waterfall, Agile/Scrum or a combination of methodologies

Required Skills/Experience (Must-Haves)

• 5+ years of experience leading and delivering complex projects within large enterprise environments, with responsibility for project planning, execution, risk management, and stakeholder communication
• Experience using Jira and Confluence for project tracking, documentation management, status reporting, and cross-functional team collaboration
• Experience within the telecommunications or cable industry, with an understanding of industry-specific operations, technologies, and business processes
• Proven success managing technology-driven projects, including infrastructure, systems, software, network, or other technical implementations, rather than exclusively business-focused initiatives
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Project, with the ability to develop, maintain, and manage detailed project schedules, dependencies, resource plans, critical paths, and project milestones
• Recent experience leading projects using Waterfall methodologies, including structured planning, requirements management, project governance, and sequential delivery approaches
• Working knowledge of Agile and Scrum frameworks, with the ability to effectively collaborate with development teams operating in Agile delivery environments
• Experience working within hybrid project environments that incorporate both Waterfall and Agile practices, ensuring alignment across business, technical, and delivery teams

Preferred Skills/Experience (Nice-to-Haves)

• Bachelor's degree
• Telecommunications/cable experience
• Large-scale technical deployment experience
• Application development/SDLC experience
• Network or infrastructure project experience
• Device/equipment deployment experience
• Experience partnering closely with architecture and engineering teams
• Vendor/contractor management
• PMP or other PMI certification
• Scrum/Agile certification or formal training

Work Environment

Location: St. Louis, MO | Work Model: Hybrid

Compensation & Benefits

Pay Range: The approximate pay range for this position is between $80,000 and $120,000. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to background, knowledge, skills, and location. We comply with local wage minimums.

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Plans
• Employee-Owned Profit Sharing (ESOP)
• 401K offered

About KellyMitchell

At KellyMitchell, our culture is world class. We’re movers and shakers! We don’t mind a bit of friendly competition, and we reward hard work with unlimited potential for growth. This is an exciting opportunity to join a company known for innovative solutions and unsurpassed customer service. We're passionate about helping companies solve their biggest IT staffing & project solutions challenges. As an employee-owned, women-led organization serving Fortune 500 companies nationwide, we deliver expert service at a moment's notice.