Program Manager/Sr. Project Manager – Data Center at Comtec Consultants

Title: Program Manager/Sr. Project Manager – Data Center

Location: Long Island, NY (Hybrid) (Preferably from NY, NJ, PA, CT, and MA states)

Length : Fulltime

Responsibilities:

Conduct a series of work sessions with key stakeholders to review the Master Plan findings and further refine the requirements including:

• Prepare a summary of initial findings and review with the Team to solicit feedback.
• Based on comments, finalize the IT Program Report which will serve to initial input to the A/E Team during their overall programming effort.
• Prepare the initial “Program Charter”.

Develop Team Structure

• Help with external contractor positions, teaming approach, success factors, evaluation of infrastructure and IT options, IT migration strategies, updating of capacity and reliability requirements, reporting requirements, milestones, etc.
• Identify qualified external contractors (architect, engineer, construction manager, etc.) and issue RFQ’s to determine a refined list of candidates to receive subsequent Request for Proposal and Pricing.
• Assist with evaluating RFQ and RFP responses and identifying top candidates for formal negotiations.
• Provide support, as required, during the negotiation process.

Design Development

• Ensure synchronization of IT and Facility requirements and activities.
• Assist with leading the IT effort to complete all required Data Center / Control Center Design Elements with the A/E Team.
• Provide tactical and strategic solutions support for data center / control center design.
• Facilitate timely “check-points” and interim assessments of design solutions (for both IT and Facilities) and resulting costs against the approved budget.
• Participate in documentation / red-mark review as the drawings and specifications mature to final Construction Documents
• Collaborate with IT Team members to help ensure alignment of IT requirements with: Construction Documents, project budget, project schedule.

IT Systems Migration

• Collaborate with IT stakeholders to develop and mature migration strategies consistent with the overall program (i.e. budget, schedule, etc.)
• Assist with project management and change control and consistent with the overall program to control scope creep, meet schedule and budget milestones, and mitigate risk.
• Support the migration through completion and possibly through any decommissioning of legacy equipment.

Requirements:

• Must have minimum 10+ years of experience with Data Center projects.
• Must have experience managing Data Center projects from ground-up including experience working with the building general contractor, and cabling, video, network, storage vendors.
• Minimum of 15+ years of experience in large-scale IT Project Management environment.
• Ability to manage multiple high visibility IT projects and program simultaneously.
• Ability to manage multiple IT projects with internal resources and external vendors.
• Must have good experience identifying and managing risks.
• Expert understanding of the Project Management processes and methodologies.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus.