Senior Technical Project Manager

Job Description

Company Description

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Job summary

The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Senior Technical Project Manager to join us in Madrid, Spain. In this role, you will actively manage Services projects in the Iberia region from initiation, through delivery, to closure. You'll coordinate cross-functional teams and establish appropriate metrics for measuring key project criteria, as well as determine, monitor, and review all project economics, including costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, resources, and risk. While effectively managing a project, you will also be responsible for helping instill an organizational project management discipline and serve as an ambassador for the adoption of project management fundamentals, principles, and methodologies with the Services team.

Primary job responsibilities

• Guide project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting activities for Services projects with minimal direction
• Handle project requirements, scope, and change management issues; ensure adherence to legally binding requirements
• Facilitate the development of recommended project control solutions for planning, scheduling, and tracking projects through the integration of various project management tools
• Work with management on project proposals, bids, contracts, estimates, and schedules, and contribute to the project estimation process
• Plan, schedule, monitor, and report on activities related to the project, including subcontractor monitoring
• Establish appropriate metrics for measuring key project criteria; develop project control and reporting procedures and manage changes in operational plans
• Participate in status review meetings with project team members and customers
• Integrate and use specific industry and technical delivery methodologies, e.g., project management methodologies based on Project Management Institute (PMI), Red Hat Services project management methodology, system and software development, and product development
• Assist in training the project team on the application of appropriate procedures and processes; coach and advise team members to help them accomplish project goals, meet established schedules, and resolve technical or operational issues

Required skills

• Highly motivated with solid experience working in a project management role managing IT-based projects
• Record of successfully managing highly complex projects and multicultural or multidisciplinary teams
• Solid background in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technologies like Red Hat OpenStack Platform
• Experience establishing and contributing to process improvements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal skills, leadership skills, analytical skills, and business judgment
• Ability to work effectively across a diverse management team as well as a broad spectrum of internal partners on your own
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining high attention to detail
• Good balance of business and technical background and experience
• Ability to articulate the project management value proposition
• Project Management Institute (PMI), Project Management Professional (PMP), or Master of Science in Project Management (MSPM)-level certification or equivalent
• Fluent language skills in Spanish and English

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