Job#: 3024380
Job Description:
Role: Sr Infrastructure Technical Project/Product Manager
Location: Hybrid - 4 days/week onsite in SE MI
Duration: Multi-Year Contract
Job Description:
The Central Delivery Office is seeking a Sr. IT Infrastructure Technical Product/Project Manager to support our Platform Transformation and lead delivery of EPEO OKRs. This role is responsible for owning value streams and complex cross-functional projects, ensuring end-to-end delivery of high-value infrastructure initiatives.
You will play a central role in project lifecycle management, portfolio operations, value delivery, and customer-focused roadmap planning. Ideal candidates are ambitious, proactive, and driven to lead in a dynamic environment where initiative and excellence are highly valued.
Responsibilities
What You’ll Do
- Lead end-to-end project lifecycle management, including:
- Detailed timing plans
- Execution management
- Progress tracking
- Issue and risk resolution
- Cross-functional dependency coordination
- Stakeholder management
- Status reporting
- Partner with Platform teams to prioritize features for PI Planning.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration with stakeholders during feature definition and delivery.
- Identify and drive resolution of cross-team impediments.
- Participate in Demand Planning and Customer Research to shape future work.
- Interface with external teams to gather requirements and collaborate with technical leads.
- Own the customer value components of the roadmap and ensure alignment with portfolio vision.
- Facilitate PI Planning sessions and provide clear progress updates.
- Understand, visualize, and manage upstream and downstream dependencies.
- Promote continuous improvement using feedback loops and performance metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.).
- Support the Service-to-Platform Transformation, including leadership training and product-oriented coaching.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field — or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 8+ years of progressive experience spanning technologies, platforms, or processes (e.g., Release Train Engineer, Product Manager, Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer).
- 5+ years of experience managing large-scale, complex IT projects, including software development and infrastructure implementations.
- Proficiency with Jira and Microsoft 365.
Preferred
- Master’s degree in a related field.
- PMP and/or SAFe certifications.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for technical and stakeholder audiences.
- Experience working with global technology teams.
- Experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner for Infrastructure Technology Products such as:
- Network
- Platform Engineering
- Google Cloud
- Monitoring
- Containers as a Service
- Security tools (SIEM, SOAR, IAM, XDR, etc.)
- Broad execution management and leadership capabilities.
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of Agile delivery, software development, and IT infrastructure.
Skills Required
- Technical Communication
- Product Management
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Strategic Communication
- Complex Deployment Planning
- Project Management
- Infrastructure Architecture
- Program & Project Leadership
- Jira
- Agile Software Development
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.
