IT Project Manager

About Us

Founded in 1995, Zema Global Data Corporation empowers organizations to simplify complexity, reduce risk, and make faster, more confident decisions that drive measurable results. Over the past two years, Zema Global has accelerated its growth through strategic investment and acquisition to strengthen our global leadership. Together we’re helping our customers gain a Decisioning Advantage – one bold idea at a time. With a presence across global energy, commodity, and financial markets, Zema Global empowers customers to simplify complexity, reduce risk, and make faster, more confident decisions that drive measurable results.

At Zema Global, we Think Big, Make It Happen, and Win as One. We thrive on collaboration, creativity, and respect, united by a shared drive to innovate and deliver meaningful impact for our customers and communities. If you’re inspired by solving complex challenges and contributing to a culture that values purpose and performance, we invite you to join us.

Position Overview

Zema Global is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead strategic initiatives across our infrastructure, cloud, and cybersecurity programs. This role will focus on delivering projects that enhance the organization’s technology platform, strengthen security posture, and support ongoing modernization initiatives.

The successful candidate will play a critical role in driving complex projects across engineering, operations, and security teams while ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and enterprise architecture standards.

This position requires a strong leader who can drive execution, maintain accountability across teams, and communicate effectively with both technical stakeholders and senior leadership. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong sense of ownership, take pride in delivering high-quality outcomes, and proactively identify opportunities to improve processes and deliver additional value through each initiative.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of IT infrastructure and cybersecurity initiatives, including cloud modernization, security remediation programs, platform upgrades, and operational improvements.
• Develop and manage comprehensive project plans, including scope, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and resource allocation.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering, operations, architecture, security, and vendor teams.
• Facilitate project governance, ensuring alignment with internal standards and enterprise technology strategy.
• Proactively identify project risks and obstacles and implement mitigation strategies to maintain delivery momentum.
• Maintain strong project discipline through status reporting, issue tracking, and risk management processes.
• Provide clear and structured project updates to technical teams, executive leadership, and key stakeholders.
• Translate complex technical activities into concise, business-focused communication for leadership.
• Ensure teams remain focused on key deliverables and timelines while maintaining high-quality standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational processes, reduce technical debt, and strengthen the organization’s security and infrastructure capabilities.
• Support broader technology transformation initiatives across the IT organization.

Leadership And Communication Expectations

This role requires exceptional communication and leadership skills. The successful candidate will:

• Act as a central point of coordination across multiple technical teams.
• Maintain clear, transparent communication with project stakeholders.
• Present project updates, risk summaries, and key milestones to senior leadership.
• Facilitate alignment between engineering teams and business leadership.
• Ensure complex technical initiatives are communicated in a clear and structured manner.

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are essential to the success of this role.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing enterprise IT projects.
• Demonstrated experience delivering infrastructure, cloud, or cybersecurity programs.
• Strong understanding of enterprise technology environments including:
  • Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or similar)
  • Networking and infrastructure platforms
  • Security controls and remediation initiatives
  • Identity and access management
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects in complex technical environments.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or similar project management certifications.
• Experience supporting security or compliance initiatives (SOC, NIST, CIS, ISO frameworks).
• Experience working with cloud transformation or infrastructure modernization programs.

Key Attributes - The Successful Candidate Will Demonstrate

• Ownership and Accountability - Takes responsibility for outcomes and drives projects through to completion.
• Leadership - Ability to coordinate multiple teams and maintain momentum across complex initiatives.
• Communication Excellence - Strong ability to communicate with both technical teams and executive leadership.
• Execution Focus - Highly organized with strong attention to detail and delivery timelines.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset - Proactively identifies opportunities to enhance processes and deliver additional business value.

What Success Looks Like

• Successful delivery of infrastructure and security initiatives that strengthen the organization’s technology platform.
• Strong collaboration across engineering, operations, and security teams.
• Clear and consistent communication with leadership and stakeholders.
• Projects delivered with measurable impact on operational resilience and security posture.

Why Zema Global?

Be part of a rapidly growing company revolutionizing energy analytics, shaping how data drives decision-making across the energy and commodities markets. Work with cutting-edge technology alongside a team of industry experts who are redefining market intelligence. Significant opportunity to make a measurable impact on product strategy, revenue growth and customer success, with clear paths for career advancement. Join a company culture that values innovation, collaboration and customer-centric thinking, giving you the autonomy to drive meaningful change.

How to Apply?

If you're excited about this opportunity, send us your application highlighting your qualifications and experience relevant to the role and we'll get back to you as soon as possible (we only accept CVs in English). We appreciate all applications, but only short-listed candidates will be contacted for further consideration. Thank you for your interest. And strictly no agency calls or agency CV submissions. No VISA sponsorship is provided*

Equality and Diversity

Zema Global is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals and do not discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected status.

Key skills/competency

• IT Project Management
• Infrastructure Projects
• Cybersecurity Programs
• Cloud Modernization
• Agile Methodologies
• Stakeholder Management
• Risk Management
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Project Planning
• Team Leadership