Technical Project Manager (Network Engineering)

Job Description

Technology Project Manager — Infrastructure Engineering

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Technology Project Manager to plan, coordinate, and deliver infrastructure engineering initiatives across our network and server environments. This role sits at the intersection of Cisco-based network engineering, Windows/VMware server infrastructure, Azure cloud adoption, tightly integrated third-party connectivity, and active office facilities projects. The ideal candidate combines strong project management fundamentals with hands-on technical fluency across these domains and the organizational discipline to drive complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams from initiation through closure.

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning and Delivery

• Lead end-to-end project lifecycles for network and server engineering initiatives, including upgrades, migrations, capacity expansions, and new platform deployments.
• Define project scope, objectives, milestones, and resource requirements in collaboration with engineering leads and business stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, risk registers, and status reporting cadences appropriate for infrastructure initiatives.
• Manage project timelines and vendor delivery commitments in coordination with IT Procurement teams.
• Apply Agile and Waterfall methodologies as appropriate to the nature of each initiative; use hybrid approaches for phased infrastructure rollouts.

Network Engineering Projects

• Coordinate delivery of Cisco-based network projects including campus and data center switching, routing, SD-WAN, and firewall deployments.
• Manage scheduling and sequencing of network changes to minimize service disruption, coordinating with the Change Advisory Board (CAB) as required.
• Facilitate integration planning between network infrastructure and third-party connectivity partners.
• Track and communicate project milestones to network engineering teams, senior leadership, and external vendors.

Server and Compute Projects

• Manage infrastructure projects spanning Windows Server environments, VMware virtualization platforms, and Dell hardware lifecycle activities.
• Coordinate the firm’s transition from on-premises VMware infrastructure to Azure and Azure Local, ensuring workload migration projects are sequenced and executed with minimal business disruption.
• Partner with Cloud Platform Engineering to align server project timelines with Azure adoption roadmap milestones.
• Oversee hardware refresh cycles and data center operations projects in coordination with facilities, vendors, and engineering teams.

Facilities and Construction Project Coordination

• San Francisco Office Modernization — A major multi-floor renovation initiative requiring infrastructure engineering planning and execution for network, cabling, and systems work across construction phases. On-site presence at the SF office will be required at key project milestones throughout the construction lifecycle.
• Boston Office Relocation — A floor-to-floor office move requiring infrastructure coordination for network and systems cutover, with remote project management as the primary delivery mode and on-site travel only if required.

Third-Party Connectivity Coordination

• Serve as the primary project coordination point for infrastructure initiatives involving third-party service providers, including Bloomberg, Charles River Development (CRD), Eagle Investment Systems, State Street, and similar financial-services connectivity partners.
• Manage external project timelines, technical onboarding requirements, and circuit or connectivity provisioning processes with third-party technical counterparts.
• Coordinate internal network and server engineering resources to meet third-party integration deadlines and service-level requirements.
• Maintain a current inventory of third-party connectivity dependencies and proactively surface scheduling risks related to vendor timelines.

Stakeholder Management and Communication

• Prepare and deliver project status updates, milestone summaries, and escalation briefings for senior leadership, including the CTO and infrastructure management.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, and go/no-go checkpoints with technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Identify, document, and actively manage project risks, issues, and dependencies across workstreams.
• Translate technical scope and delivery status into clear, non-technical language for business stakeholders.

Process and Documentation

• Maintain comprehensive project documentation in Jira and Confluence, including project charters, decision logs, working agreements, RAID registers, and closure reports.
• Ensure infrastructure changes are coordinated through the ITIL change management process and align with ServiceNow workflows.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of project delivery practices within Infrastructure Engineering.
• Support retrospectives and lessons-learned sessions to build institutional knowledge.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum five years of project management experience in technology environments, with a focus on network or server/compute infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience managing Cisco network infrastructure projects (routing, switching, firewall, SD-WAN).
• Hands-on familiarity with Windows Server, VMware vSphere/vSAN, and Dell compute platforms sufficient to translate technical scope into project deliverables.
• Experience managing cloud migration or hybrid infrastructure projects; Azure familiarity strongly preferred.
• Experience coordinating infrastructure integrations with third-party service providers, ideally in financial services environments.
• Proficiency with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) for work management and documentation.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant certifications: PMP, CSM (Certified Scrum Master), PMI-ACP, SAFe, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with Azure Local (Azure Stack HCI) and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Experience with ITIL frameworks and ServiceNow-based change and incident management processes.
• Background in financial services technology environments, including exposure to Bloomberg, CRD, Eagle, or similar platforms.
• Experience with network capacity planning, circuit procurement, or colocation/data center operations projects.
• Experience coordinating technology infrastructure work within active office construction or facilities relocation projects.
• Exposure to infrastructure automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible, or comparable IaC frameworks) sufficient to coordinate engineering deliverables.

Work Location and Travel

Primary Work Location

• We are seeking candidates local to the San Francisco Bay Area. This role operates primarily in a hybrid capacity, with on-site presence at the San Francisco main office required for quarterly planning events, active construction project milestones, and other key project activities as needed. Remote work is supported between on-site commitments.

Regular Work Locations

Depending on active project assignments, this role will involve periodic travel to the following locations:

• San Francisco Main Office — Primary hub for planning, stakeholder engagement, and facilities-related project work.
• Bishop Ranch, San Ramon — Periodic on-site presence for network and server infrastructure projects at this office location.
• Sunnyvale Data Center — On-site coordination for data center infrastructure, hardware, and compute projects as required.

Occasional Travel

• Travel to the Boston office and the Virginia data center is anticipated to be infrequent and will occur only when directly required by project needs. The expectation is that the majority of project coordination for these sites can be conducted remotely.

Performance Metrics

• Success in this role will be measured by on-time, on-budget delivery of infrastructure projects; stakeholder satisfaction; quality and currency of project documentation; effectiveness of third-party coordination; and the degree to which project delivery practices improve over time.