Senior Manager, IT Project Manager

Your role 

We are looking for a proactive and driven IT Project Manager with 3+ years of experience to manage large-scale IT projects with a focus on post-acquisition integrations. You will work within a dynamic global environment, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless IT integration and business transformation initiatives. This is a critical role within our company, ensuring the successful integration of newly acquired companies' IT systems into our global infrastructure.

What you’ll do

• Lead IT Projects: Manage the planning, execution, and delivery of medium to large IT projects across different business units, ensuring that all project objectives are achieved within scope, budget, and timeline.
• Post-Acquisition Integration: Support the IT integration process for newly acquired businesses, ensuring the smooth transition of IT systems, networks, applications, and security controls.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with multiple internal teams, including IT, Security, Compliance, Legal, HR, Finance, Product, Sales, Marketing, and Operations, as well as external stakeholders, to drive project success.
• Risk Management: Identify and assess potential risks and issues that may affect project delivery, and work proactively to mitigate these risks, escalating issues when necessary.
• Budget Management: Assist in managing project budgets, ensuring financial targets are met, and resources are allocated efficiently.
• Project Documentation: Develop and maintain project documentation, including project plans, status reports, risk logs, and issue trackers, using standard project management tools.
• Compliance and Security: Ensure that all IT projects comply with regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001) and internal security protocols.
• Vendor Coordination: Work with third-party vendors and service providers to ensure successful project outcomes, managing contracts, SLAs, and deliverables.
• Change Management: Facilitate change management efforts, including end-user training, communication plans, and ensuring adoption of new systems and processes.

What you’ll need

• Lead IT Projects: Manage the planning, execution, and delivery of medium to large IT projects across different business units, ensuring that all project objectives are achieved within scope, budget, and timeline.
• Post-Acquisition Integration: Support the IT integration process for newly acquired businesses, ensuring the smooth transition of IT systems, networks, applications, and security controls.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with multiple internal teams, including IT, Security, Compliance, Legal, HR, Finance, Product, Sales, Marketing, and Operations, as well as external stakeholders, to drive project success.
• Risk Management: Identify and assess potential risks and issues that may affect project delivery, and work proactively to mitigate these risks, escalating issues when necessary.
• Budget Management: Assist in managing project budgets, ensuring financial targets are met, and resources are allocated efficiently.
• Project Documentation: Develop and maintain project documentation, including project plans, status reports, risk logs, and issue trackers, using standard project management tools.
• Compliance and Security: Ensure that all IT projects comply with regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001) and internal security protocols.
• Vendor Coordination: Work with third-party vendors and service providers to ensure successful project outcomes, managing contracts, SLAs, and deliverables.
• Change Management: Facilitate change management efforts, including end-user training, communication plans, and ensuring adoption of new systems and processes.

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A bit about our Digital team 

IT

Our IT team is at the heart of our business. We develop infrastructures, design and build networks, support servers and provide the first line of support by delivering rich connectivity for our customers. With new data centers coming online all the time, it’s a rapidly changing technical environment so our team is always ready to innovate and take the lead on projects. We constantly develop, deploy and support vital networks and data services that drive business performance and improve life for customers around the globe.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. 

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. 

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more. 

This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.

Notes:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled.  All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.

Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.

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