Project Manager - Deployment Lead

Description
Company
SDI Presence LLC is an IT systems integration and consultancy that leverages its strong team presence to advance our clients to a secure digital enterprise. With a 20-year corporate resume, SDI delivers strategic managed services, IT consulting, and hybrid infrastructure solutions to optimize our clients' technology environments. SDI is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), with a portfolio of clients that includes some of the nation's largest airports, utilities, commercial real estate portfolios, and government agencies. SDI delivers a deep technical presence through a local delivery model to achieve customer confidence and success.

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Summary
The EAM Deployment Lead will lead the Deployment team with deployment and cutover preparation and execution activities. They are responsible for creating the Cutover plan and coordinating with the Project teams to ensure roles and responsibilities during cutover are understood. The Deployment Lead will also participate in Dress Rehearsals and Mock Conversion activities, including helping to run the Command Center. This individual will also be responsible for ensuring that deliverables meet client standards and expectations. The successful candidate will work on multiple tasks simultaneously and be a team player.
Responsibilities

• Coordinate with various project teams for deployment and migration activities
• Document the detailed sequence plans for large and small deployments
• Accountable for the overall planning, coordination, execution, and delivery of deployment related activities
• Create cutover plan and review with project teams
• Help run the Command Center during Dress Rehearsal and Cutover activities
• Help resolve and escalate impediments, manage risk, and drive continuous improvement
• Drive cross team and departmental impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination
• Understand, visualize, and manage upstream/downstream dependencies
• Lead deployment level coordination, such as creating timelines, milestones, and communications to be used during deployments
• Identify opportunities to streamline deployments, share best practices with peers and implement continuous improvement actions on a regular basis
• Own updates and knowledge documentation regarding lessons learned and apply those to future deployment related activities

Requirements

• 5-8 years of experience as Deployment Lead
• Experience with Cloud migrations/Cutover activities
• Experienced user of MS Project, and proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint
• Strong oral and written skills - able to communicate effectively on both a technical and business level with varying levels of stakeholders, team members and management
• Strong interpersonal skills, including experience managing conflict, escalations, negotiating, influencing others and problem solving
• Ability to work independently and drive medium projects
• Detail oriented and high attention to detail for the project plan
• Ability to plan and facilitate meetings with project team members, gathering information for cutover activities
• A dedication to cross-function collaboration, communication and breaking down of silos
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands
• Creative approach to problem-solving with the ability to focus on details while maintaining the "big picture" view
• Ability to thrive in an environment with a high degree of change
• Plus if candidate has heavy industry (refining, mining, utilities, manufacturing) experience
• Plus if they have EAM (IBM Maximo, Cityworks, Hexagon) Experience
• Plus if candidate has GIS experience

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
COVID-19 Vaccine Statement
This position will be required to disclose their COVID-19 vaccination status.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
SDI Presence is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. SDI Presence makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
Staffing Firms
SDI Presence does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruitment agencies. We are not responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions, or any other payment related to unsolicited resumes or CVs except as required in a written contract between SDI Presence and the recruitment agency or party requesting payment of a fee.