Sr. Project Manager

Apex Systems; Frankfort (KY); Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 83,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401K/ESPP

HSA

Career development

Job summary

Everforth Apex seeks a Senior Project Manager in Frankfort, KY (Hybrid) to lead complex IT initiatives spanning infrastructure and application development. You will manage cross-functional teams, vendor relationships, and governance to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery while mentoring teams in project management frameworks.

The role requires strong experience in data center migrations, enterprise networks, security, and regulatory compliance, with PMP and ITIL certifications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration or related field.
• Seven+ years of relevant project management experience leading technical projects and cross-functional teams.
• Active PMP and ITIL certifications; experience with Waterfall, Agile, SAFe, SDLC and ITIL.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain program governance, reporting, escalation, decision-making, and change-control processes.
• Coordinate development and review of data center infrastructure architectures and design requirements.
• Lead infrastructure assessments of current-state architecture, operational maturity, and risk.
• Track schedule, scope, resources, benefits realization, and readiness using RAID logs.
• Prepare executive-level reports, dashboards, and recommendations for leadership.
• Facilitate steering committees, design reviews, readiness reviews, and risk workshops.
• Manage stakeholder engagement and change initiatives across technical and business domains.
• Define and drive program management best practices and execution roadmaps.
• Coordinate discovery, migration planning, readiness reviews, cutover, and post-migration validation.

Skills

PMP

ITIL

Agile methodologies

SAFe

SDLC

Jira

Power BI

ServiceNow

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Business

Master’s degree in IT/Business Administration

Tools

Jira

Power BI

ServiceNow

Job description

## Job Description# Sr. Project ManagerApply**Job#: 3056842****Job Description:**Sr. Project Manager**Location:** Frankfort, KY (Hybrid)Role OverviewThis organization is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead and deliver complex technology initiatives that align with both tactical and strategic IT requirements. The selected professional will lead cross-functional technical teams and manage key vendor relationships to ensure successful execution. By applying advanced project management methodologies, the successful candidate will manage risk, track performance, and maintain high delivery quality while mentoring technical team members in project management frameworks.The position is ideally suited for a project manager experienced in both application development and infrastructure projects who can operate effectively in complex environments, establish governance, evaluate requirements, and guide projects from initial request and strategy through design, procurement, deployment, migration, commissioning, and operational handover. This leader will translate business and technical requirements into executable infrastructure strategies, coordinating cross-functional engineering and operational teams while maintaining control of scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, and stakeholder expectations.Key Responsibilities* Establish and maintain program governance, reporting, escalation, decision-making, and change-control processes.* Coordinate the development and review of high-level data center infrastructure architectures and design requirements.* Lead infrastructure assessments to evaluate current-state architecture, operational maturity, service resilience, capacity, technical debt, and business-continuity risks.* Track schedule, scope, quality, resource capacity, benefits realization, and operational-readiness indicators using integrated RAID logs covering risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and decisions.* Prepare executive-level reports, decision papers, program dashboards, and recommendations for leadership.* Facilitate steering committees, design reviews, readiness reviews, risk workshops, and executive decision meetings.* Manage stakeholder engagement and change initiatives across technical and business domains, clearly communicating complex technical issues to executive, business, operational, and non-technical stakeholders.* Define and drive program management best practices, including objectives and key results (OKRs) and execution roadmaps, to ensure engineering delivery aligns with long-term strategy.* Coordinate application discovery, dependency mapping, migration-wave planning, readiness reviews, cutover execution, rollback planning, and post-migration validation.* Provide program-level oversight for enterprise data center network and security architecture, coordinating LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, routing, firewall, and remote-access workstreams.Required Qualifications**Education:** Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.**Experience:** Seven or more years of relevant project management experience managing technical and cross-functional business projects and teams in a variety of computing environments. Five or more years of experience converting high-level business needs into system requirements.**Technical Skills:** Active PMP and ITIL certifications. Advanced knowledge of project management methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, SAFe, SDLC, and ITIL. Demonstrated experience in delivering complex IT projects involving infrastructure, application and product development, cybersecurity, or regulatory compliance (FedRAMP, NIST, SOC, etc.). Experience with active-active data center architectures, large-scale application migrations, data center consolidation, modernization, or major infrastructure deployment initiatives. Proficiency in project analytics and reporting tools such as Jira, Power BI, and ServiceNow.Preferred Qualifications* Master's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.* Professional certifications such as CAPM, CSM, PMI-ACP, PgMP, SAFe Practitioner, or cloud certifications (AWS/Azure).* Experience with full lifecycle implementation and upgrades for financial systems, including ERP, billing, and general ledger platforms.* Strong knowledge of data center architecture, enterprise network infrastructure, cybersecurity, compute, storage, virtualization, and disaster-recovery concepts.* Experience designing and implementing IAM integrations, provisioning workflows, and access controls. *Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.**Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click here for more details. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Everforth Apex and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy at https://www.apexsystems.com/privacy-policy**Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.**Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.**If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in an interview with a virtual recruiter or to use our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at [e-mail] or 804-523-8228. Please note that this contact information is strictly to be used for medical ADA accommodations and that no other inquiries will be answered.**UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex Systems.***Employee Type:** Contract**Remote:** Yes**Location:** Frankfort, KY, US**Job Type:****Date Posted:** October 23, 2026**Pay Range:** $50 - $60 per hour