Senior IT Project Manager
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The Senior IT Project Manager manages multiple enterprise-level technical engagements in a client-facing consulting environment. The role coordinates projects and technical design sessions, manages documentation and weekly status reporting, and keeps engagements on track. The ideal candidate brings strong technical acumen and IT industry experience, preferably including VMware Cloud Foundation exposure, and leads client conversations without owning the technical solution.
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Job Description
We are seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to manage multiple enterprise level technical engagements in a client facing/consulting environment. This individual will partner closely with senior engineers and customers to coordinate projects, schedule technical design sessions, manage project documentation, provide weekly status reporting, and ensure engagements remain on track. The ideal candidate has strong technical acumen, IT industry experience, preferably including VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) exposure, and can confidently lead client conversations without needing to own the technical solution itself. This role requires someone who is highly organized, detail-oriented, consultative, and comfortable balancing competing priorities across a large portfolio of projects.
Skills and Requirements
-8-10 years of IT Project Management experience -With 5+ years being in client/customer facing experience -Strong background managing IT/technical projects -Experience managing projects within large enterprise environments -Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities -Strong technical acumen and ability to understand technical conversations -Excellent communication skills with a consultative, client-facing approach -Extremely strong attention to detail, organization, and follow-through -Experience with project forecasting, utilization/billable-hour tracking, and status reporting -Experience with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace/Google Docs -VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) knowledge and or experience supporting VMware focused projects
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 436 open IT Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$106–132K/yr246 salary ranges
- US median$53–65/hr56 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 18 open IT Project Manager jobs in Illinois and 436 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four IT Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 322 postings).
- Education
- 134 of the 436 open IT Project Manager jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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