Professional Services Technical Cloud Project Manager

1 Month ago • 10 Years + • Project Management

Job Summary

Job Description

We are seeking a Professional Services Project Manager to lead, control, and manage Professional Services projects from initiation through delivery for complex client engagements. This role involves building and managing relationships with key stakeholders, maintaining commercial responsibility for projects, and uniting internal and external technical and non-technical teams to meet targets. The goal is to deliver results ensuring technical projects are completed on schedule and within budget. Responsibilities include managing project profitability, forecasting, identifying new revenue opportunities, effectively managing resources, and building cross-functional networks. The role also requires driving project execution to achieve customer success criteria, communicating strongly with remote teams, gathering requirements, and managing the scope, planning, monitoring, and execution of technical projects. It involves reporting progress to stakeholders, assisting with proposals, and managing risks and issues.
Must have:
  • 10+ years Project Management experience in Cloud Transformation
  • Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP
  • Ability to organize and execute projects consistently
  • Technical knowledge of data center strategy
  • Excellent time management and communication skills
  • Ability to resolve problems timely
  • Ability to adapt to changing environments
  • Experience scoping, planning, leading technical contracts
  • Previous experience managing PMs/technical resources
  • PMP/Prince2/SCRUM Master/SAFe certification/training/experience
Good to have:
  • IT Service Management and Service Delivery knowledge
  • Capacity, utilization, performance backup, storage knowledge
  • Disaster recovery, migration & consolidation knowledge
  • Applications Modernization knowledge

Job Details

Professional Services Project Manager 

Shift Timings: 3:30 pm - 00:30 AM IST

We are seeking a Professional Services Project Manager to lead, control and manage Professional Services projects from initiation through delivery for complex client engagements. Builds and manages the relationship with key stakeholders – customer, supplier and in Rackspace.  Maintains commercial responsibility for the project whilst building relationships with the customer to identify new opportunities to help them with their business problems.  Unites and provides direction to internal and external technical and non-technical teams in order to ensure that all targets and requirements are met.  Delivers results ensuring technical projects are completed on schedule and within budget. 




Key Responsibilities

    • Manage project profitability, revenue, margins and utilization by pro-active forecasting and escalating any potential scope change / new revenue opportunities.  
    • Maintain commercial responsibility for the project whilst building relationships with the customer to identify new opportunities to help them with their business problems. 
    • Effectively manage resources whether directly or indirectly to achieve goals by enhancing trust and cooperation.  Escalates any conflicting resource requirements that may affect delivery in a timely manner. 
    • Build and maintain a network of cross-functional technical resources within Rackspace and across and relative partnerships to allow for higher productivity, increased business, and rapid resolution of problems and escalations. 
    • Provide great support by driving the value of Rackspace to both potential and existing Rackspace customers and internal sales teams alike. 
    • Effectively leads, drives and executes projects in order to achieve outcomes that meet the customer’s success criteria. 
    • Works effectively and communicates strongly with remote teams. 
    • Engage Rackspace and client stakeholders in gathering and documenting requirements that solve a customer’s pain point or objectives through project outcomes and benefits realization. 
    • Responsible for the scope, planning, monitoring and execution of technical projects from initiation through delivery, ensuring they remain on schedule and within budget, cost and quality tolerances. 
    • Effectively communicates upwards to senior management and stakeholders as well as downwards to project team resources. Completes and adheres to RACI and holds people to account for their responsibilities. 
    • Accountable for the preparation of key project documents (PID, plans, logs, reports) and other key deliverables through the life of the project. 
    • Proactively works to identify and manage project risks and issues.  Ensures appropriate response plans are developed and executed. 
    • Effectively manages change to the project baseline by assessing project variance and evaluating impacts supported by the use of rigorous change control processes. 
    • Monitors the delivery of project deliverables from third parties inside and external to Rackspace and tracks progress of same through communication with project members.  
    • Prepares and presents accurate reports on project progress and problems to Rackspace and client stakeholders. 
    • Provides guidance for and assists with the creation of proposals, RFP/RFI responses, & Statements of Work (SoW). This includes the analysis and development of scope, duration, deliverables, resources, risk, assumptions and dependencies. 

Required Experience

    • 10+ Years of Project Management experience in successfully delivering Cloud Transformation Projects incl. DC Migrations, Applications Modernization, DevOps Transformation, and Software Development using cloud native technologies of AWS/AZURE/GCP. 
    • Proven ability to organise and execute projects in a consistent, repeatable and reliable manner. 
    • Technical conversational knowledge in the following areas: Data centre strategy & operations, capacity, utilisation, performance backup, storage, disaster recovery, migration & consolidation, Applications Modernization, IT Service Management and Service Delivery. 
    • Excellent time management, communications, decision making, presentation, human relations and organization skills. 
    • Able to resolve problems in a timely manner. 
    • Ability to communicate technical information and ideas so others will understand. 
    • General knowledge of cloud technologies, IT operations, project management operations. 
    • Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment. 
    • Adept at handling shifting priorities and ambiguity. 
    • Project management experience scoping, planning, leading and monitoring large scale, complex technical contracts from projects initiation through delivery and transition to BAU. 
    • Previous experience of directly managing other PMs / technical resources 
    • PMP/Prince2/SCRUM Master/SAFe certification/training/experience 
About Rackspace Technology 
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future. 
More on Rackspace Technology 
Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. 

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