Senior IT Project Manager – Cloud & Modern Workplace

Do you have experience in IT project management, understand the technical contexts of modern cloud and workplace environments, and keep an overview even with several parallel projects?

Your tasks

As a Senior IT Project Manager, you take responsibility for several small and medium-sized cloud migration projects and accompany our customers from implementation to operation. You work closely with our technical teams and other project participants to ensure that requirements become successful projects.

In this position, you report directly to the Head of PM/SDM.

• You take end-to-end responsibility for several parallel cloud projects and ensure they are delivered on time, with the agreed quality, within the defined scope, and within budget
• You are the central contact person for your customers during the build and run phases, coordinate collaboration, and ensure clear expectation management.
• You lead interdisciplinary project teams, coordinate external partners and subcontractors, and ensure all parties work towards common goals
• You keep an overview even with multiple ongoing projects, set priorities, identify risks early, and manage escalations
• You collaborate with our pre-sales and technical teams and support the preparation of proposals within various RFPs
• For customer projects and team meetings, you are on site in Bern at least twice a week

Our offer

• A pleasant working environment in a young, motivated team with solid technical expertise
• A broad technology spectrum, from workplace solutions to private and public clouds
• Varied tasks and the opportunity to accompany and manage several small and medium-sized cloud projects in parallel.
• Close collaboration with ELCA engineers, experts and managers, where you benefit from different perspectives and experiences
• Direct contact with customers and subcontractors from various business areas
• We organise regular events such as brown bag lunches and coding events as well as cosy and sporty off-site gatherings
• Good work-life balance (flexitime, home office), modern and flexible workplace in a multicultural environment
• Top benefits such as: purchase of up to 13 days’ holiday, contribution to private mobile phone or business phone, half-fare travelcard, business travel in 1st class, flexible pension schemes, coverage of daily sickness and accident insurance (private, worldwide), and much more

Your profile

You are an experienced IT project manager with a technical background and move confidently between customers, technical teams and business requirements. You like to take responsibility, actively drive your projects forward and understand both the technical and organisational challenges.

• You have a degree (university, university of applied sciences, college) in computer science, business informatics or a comparable technical field
• You have actively worked in the field of workplace, cloud and/or modern workplace within the last four years and thus bring current practical experience and good technical understanding. This experience is mandatory
• You have solid experience in IT project management and are used to planning, coordinating and successfully implementing several projects simultaneously
• You have experience in collaboration between customers, development and operations and can align different stakeholders towards common goals
• You are familiar with modern IT and cloud environments and are acquainted with several of the following technologies and topics: Modern Workplace/Microsoft 365, AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, VMware/Hyper-V, container platforms, networks and software defined infrastructure
• Knowledge of ITIL as well as experience with tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible or Terraform is an advantage
• You speak (Swiss) German at a native level and have very good English skills

You do not have to be hands-on with all the mentioned technologies yourself. What matters is that you bring a solid technical foundation and understand the current developments in the cloud and workplace environment. This way, you can correctly classify technical issues, collaborate with our specialists on an equal footing and competently manage demanding projects.

Does that sound exciting?

Do you want to not only coordinate cloud projects but actively drive them forward, take responsibility and make a difference together with experienced technical teams?

Then we look forward to getting to know you!