Infrastructure Project Manager- Columbus, OH / Naveen

Title : Infrastructure Project Manager

W2 Only

Location: Columbus, OH

Onsite

Type: Contract to hire

In-person interview

What Success Looks Like

• Own outcomes with limited direction; ask the right questions, retain the answers, and rapidly identify key players.
• Build logical plans, estimates, schedules, work breakdown structures, dependencies, milestones, and critical paths.
• Drive resources through influence rather than reporting authority; coordinate across lines of business and regions.
• Identify risks/issues early, distinguish noise from material impact, and escalate at the right time to the right audience.
• Produce audit-ready project artifacts, including statements of work, plans, RAID/risk logs, financials, status reporting, and executive communications.
• Understand infrastructure well enough to challenge assumptions and coordinate engineers without trying to design the technical solution.

Technical environment: evidence to seek

Priority

Area

Evidence that counts

Must

Infrastructure project delivery

Ownership of enterprise infrastructure implementation, migration, modernization, data center, compute, platform, or hosting programs not only application/software SDLC.

Strong plus

Mainframe / midrange / IBM i / IBM Power

Projects involving z/OS/mainframe, IBM i (AS/400), Power Systems, or related platform upgrades/migrations.

Strong plus

Data center buildout/support

Facility/technology buildout, relocation, consolidation, refresh, capacity, hardware deployment, or cutover.

Helpful

NonStop / UNIX / data platforms

HPE NonStop, UNIX/Linux infrastructure, database/data-platform infrastructure, storage, or related specialty services.

Required tool fluency

Jira

Able to navigate epics/stories, queues and backlogs, and use Jira to track infrastructure requirements/tasks; Scrum certification is not the point.

Requirement

Req. / target

Candidate yrs

Resume / call evidence

Match

Senior technical/infrastructure project management

8+ target

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Direct enterprise infrastructure delivery (not software-only)

5+ target

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Large, complex or multimillion-dollar programs

3+ target

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Global / cross-LOB stakeholder leadership

3+ target

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Influence without authority / resource wrangling

3+ target

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Risk, issue and escalation judgment

5+ target

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Planning: estimation, WBS, dependencies, critical path

5+ target

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Waterfall and hybrid delivery methods

3+ target

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Budget/financials and business cases

3+ target

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Benefits management / outcome tracking

2+ target

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Executive-level written and verbal communication

5+ target

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Jira navigation and task/backlog tracking

2+ target

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Mainframe, IBM i/Power, NonStop, UNIX, data platform, or data center

Preferred

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Onsite 5 days/week and flexible for early global meetings

Required

N/A

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Knockout / caution flags