Project Manager-Application Operations

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Project Manager in Application Operations, you will oversee the end-to-end implementation of security frameworks and DevOps platforms, ensuring smooth operations and incident management. You will lead the transition from build to run and operate phases, driving productivity improvements through automation and new technologies. Your primary responsibilities will include: * Manage Implementation of Security Frameworks: Oversee the build and support of middleware components, reviewing and implementing monitoring requirements to ensure seamless operations. * Lead Transition and Operations: Manage the transition from build to run and operate phases, ensuring smooth operations and incident management, and providing strong leadership in incident, problem, and change management. * Track Project Scope and Progress: Determine and track scope, milestones, tasks, risks, assumptions, objectives, and dependencies relating to projects, creating a governance to report progress. * Foster Stakeholder Relationships: Proactively build and maintain relationships with stakeholders to identify opportunities to add value and engage team members as needed. * Drive Productivity Improvements: Constantly seek areas for implementing automation and new technologies to bring in productivity improvements.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education
Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

* Managing Security Frameworks Implementation: Experience with overseeing the end-to-end implementation of security frameworks and DevOps platforms, including building and supporting middleware components. * Leading Transition and Operations: Experience in managing the transition from build to run and operate phases, ensuring smooth operations and incident management, with a strong focus on incident, problem, and change management. * Project Governance and Tracking: Experience with determining and tracking scope, milestones, tasks, risks, assumptions, objectives, and dependencies relating to projects, and creating governance to report progress. * Stakeholder Relationship Management: Experience in proactively building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders to identify opportunities to add value and engage team members as needed. * Automation and Productivity Improvement: Experience in identifying areas for implementing automation and new technologies to drive productivity improvements.

Preferred technical and professional experience

* Automation Technologies Knowledge: Experience with implementing automation and new technologies to drive productivity improvements, leveraging expertise in DevOps platforms and security frameworks to optimize operations. * Advanced Project Governance: Experience in creating governance to report progress, tracking scope, milestones, tasks, risks, assumptions, objectives, and dependencies relating to projects, ensuring seamless operations and incident management. * IT Service Management: Experience with incident, problem, and change management during the run and operate phase, providing strong leadership in managing the transition from build to run and operate phases.

Years of Experience:
8-10