Information Technology Project Manager

Job Title: IT Project Manager

Location San Diego CA

Contract - 1 year

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Must Have

Application and infrastructure dependency mapping

Data analysis and reporting

IT resilience risk assessment and remediation tracking

IT Service Resilience (ITSR), Business Continuity (BC), and Disaster Recovery (DR)

Microsoft 365 (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, SharePoint)

RTO/RPO concepts

Technology program/project management

Nice To Have

AI/GenAI governance and operational resilience considerations

Identity and Access Management (IAM), Infrastructure and Data Center recovery concepts

ISO 22301, ISO 27001, NIST, COBIT, or ITIL frameworks

M&A / Acquisition integration experience

Operational Resilience frameworks

Power BI reporting and dashboard development

Resilience tools, ServiceNow, Jira and Confluence

JOB DESCRIPTION

Top 5 Skills:

IT Service Resilience (ITSR) Program Management

Operational Resilience Planning and Execution

Project & Portfolio Management

Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management

Risk Assessment, Mitigation, and Governance

Technologies:

Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, OneNote, Excel, PowerPoint)

Project management tools

ServiceNow

Jira

Required Education & Required Years of Experience:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and:

4+ years of Project Management, IT Program Management, Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Risk Management, or Governance-related experience.

OR

6+ years of Project Management, IT Program Management, Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Risk Management, or Governance-related experience without a bachelor's degree.

Physical Requirements (Lifting, outdoor work, travel): NONE

Driving Requirements: NONE

Key Words:

IT Service Resilience, Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Risk Management, IT M&A Integration, Project Management, Program Management, Governance, Exercise Management, Recovery Planning, Stakeholder Management, Compliance, Third-Party Risk,

Job Description:

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Gathers stakeholder needs and goals with guidance, and executes communication plan for project team and stakeholders.

• Forms project team, and manages and prioritizes the work of the project team by establishing schedules and task assignments, and tracking tasks of team members.

• Creates project goals and prioritizes deliverables with guidance from project stakeholders.

• Manages multiple projects of small to medium size or complexity and applies up-to-date project management knowledge to meet deadlines.

• Builds and executes project plans for small- to medium-sized projects which include schedule and resource forecasting, stakeholder identification, method and frequency of communication, scope, and prioritization.

• Identifies project issues and risks, and creates a risk mitigation plan for small- to medium-sized projects.

• Manages project performance (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope, and with quality) for projects of small to medium size or complexity.

• Promotes project vision and objectives within project team, and ensures project objectives are met.

• Supports the compliance of project plans by following best practices and procedures.

• Promotes collaboration with various project stakeholders.

In addition to the standard Project Manager responsibilities above, this resource will:

Support the execution of IT Service Resilience and Operational Resilience activities across mergers, acquisitions, and strategic business initiatives.

Coordinate resilience assessments, recovery planning, and remediation tracking activities with business and technology stakeholders.

Facilitate workshops, meetings, risk reviews, tabletop exercises, and stakeholder communications.

Track project milestones, action items, dependencies, risks, and deliverables across multiple workstreams.

Develop executive-ready status reports, dashboards, presentations, and program documentation.

Support continuity planning, disaster recovery activities, operational resilience exercises, and related governance processes.

Coordinate with internal teams, external vendors, and acquired entities to ensure successful onboarding and integration into Qualcomm resilience practices.

Assist with audit, compliance, and regulatory-related resilience initiatives.

Maintain project schedules, RAID logs, meeting notes, issue tracking, and action item follow-up.

Level of Responsibility:

• Working under close supervision.

• Taking responsibility for own work and making decisions with limited impact; impact of decisions is readily apparent; errors made typically only impact timeline (i.e., require additional time to correct).

• Using verbal and written communication skills to convey basic, routine factual information about day-to-day activities to others who are fully knowledgeable in the subject area.

• Completing tasks that require multiple steps that must be performed in a specific order, using directions or manuals that accurately document the steps necessary to perform the tasks.

• Using deductive problem solving required to solve moderately complex problems; most problems have defined processes of diagnosis/detection; some limited data analysis may be required.

• Exercising some creativity may be required to troubleshoot technical problems or deal with novel circumstances.