Project Manager Google Cloud Platform

As a Google Cloud Project Manager at Insight, you will oversee the deployment of mid to large client deployments, ensuring that projects are delivered according to scope, budget, and schedule. You will also ensure that end-user requirements are met and manage resolutions to issues and risk mitigation plans. This role will require ongoing stakeholder management, as you’ll be responsible for the overall success of projects.  

The ideal candidate will be energetic, creative, enthusiastic, intelligent, analytical, and eager to take on responsibility and learn new skills. This is a prime environment if you enjoy working in a fast-paced organization and participating in a creative, exciting, fun, and teamwork-oriented environment, with a strong focus on product owner and application and software development and delivery methodology. We are looking for those who want to grow with Insight for the long term.

Primary Duties Include:

● Responsible for the overall operation of client deployments. This includes change management, deployment, application development lifecycle (SDLC), and daily project management activities

● Report into the PMO for status, issues, risks, decisions, and change requests, including application delivery milestones and Agile sprint progress

● Take on P&L responsibility for projects - to ensure scope is managed, change orders are tracked, quoted, and approved, and that the client is satisfied and informed at all times

● Ability to effectively manage multiple projects at a time, including concurrent application development and enhancement efforts

● Lead and motivate project teams and overseeing engineers and change managers, including application developers, QA, and cross-functional Agile team members

● Work with sales team members to understand project requirements and clarify conceptual needs for migrations as needed, including application architecture and integration considerations

● Lead the estimation effort with the engineers and change managers, including Agile story-pointing and development effort estimation

● Manage client expectations around delivery, including sprint commitments, release timelines, and application scope

● Assist in the development of detailed project specifications, functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria

● Utilizing project management applications to build out project timelines, make assignments, track projects, and use them to appropriately demonstrate project control

 ● Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria with clients, including Agile tools for backlog management, sprint planning, and release tracking

● Bring and help implement best practices and methodologies at Insight, including Agile, Scrum, and application development best practices

● Build documentation around processes and procedures for clients, including application workflows, release processes, and backlog governance

● Communicate technical and business requirements with engineers, programmers, designers, and clients, translating requirements into actionable backlog items for development teams

Pathway to Success  

Be prepared, work with intentional effort and offer no surprises for our clients and teammates.

Your success starts by positively impacting the direction of a fast-growing practice with vision and passion. You will be measured quarterly by the breadth, magnitude, and quality of your contributions, your ability to estimate accurately, customer feedback at the close of projects, how well you collaborate with your peers, and the consultative polish you bring to customer interactions.  

As you continue to execute successfully, we will build a customized development plan together that leads you through the individual contributor or management growth tracks.  

Expectations

Customer Facing - You will interact with customers on a regular basis, sometimes daily, other times weekly/bi-weekly. Common touchpoints occur when qualifying potential opportunities, at project kickoff, throughout the engagement as progress is communicated, and at project close. You can expect to interact with a range of customer stakeholders, including engineers, technical project managers, and executives.

Training - Ongoing with first-week orientation followed by a 90-day onboarding schedule. Details of the timeline can be shared.

Job Requirements

Required Credentials:

● Bachelor’s degree in a related field  Required Qualifications:  

● A minimum of 5 years of related experience in a technical/engineering environment, project coordination, product owner  

● 1- 2 years of cloud computing experience

● Consulting experience  

● Experienced with Agile methodologies and tools

● Certification or formal training in Project Management

● Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to productively interact with Directors and CIOs at mid-to-large-sized organizations

● Experience managing a team of engineers and change managers

● Strong problem-solving and analytical/reasoning skills/organizational skills

● Positive attitude towards change and ability to adapt 

● Excellent written and oral communication skills