Senior Project Manager - Infrastructure & Operations

What You Will Do

• Lead and coordinate implementation of infrastructure projects spanning data center builds, expansions, and migrations; hardware platforms; network connectivity; security and access controls; and foundational IT services.
• Drive a portfolio of concurrent projects to completion, owning coordination, visibility, and risk across all of them, and holding the delivery team accountable to scope and timeline with minimal disruption to business operations.
• Own the bill of materials (BOM) for each project: assembling, reviewing, and maintaining accuracy across hardware and services. Partner with procurement and provisioning teams to source hardware and circuits. Cost visibility flows from the BOM, so you own it end-to-end.
• Translate ambiguous, cross-domain technical work into structured, trackable plans with clear ownership.
• Align engineering teams, stakeholders, and vendors around shared priorities; surface conflicts early and drive resolution.
• Plan and coordinate execution around production change windows, including off-hours and weekend changes when required.
• Anticipate risk, know when and how to escalate, and communicate status with candor.
• Deliver against firm-driven mandates (exchange-mandated changes, security and data-protection initiatives, trading desk and market expansion) and IO-driven modernization efforts.
• What You'll Need
• Experience: 8+ years of project management in technology or infrastructure environments, with a proven track record leading engineering teams through complex technical delivery.
• Technical Fluency: Hands-on grounding across infrastructure domains, including data center operations, compute, storage, network engineering, network security, systems administration, and enterprise platforms. Enough depth to engage engineers credibly, review BOMs intelligently, and challenge estimates.
• Ownership & Operating Style: You own outcomes, not tasks. You're honest even when it's difficult, self-directed under minimal oversight, and effective navigating organizational and technical complexity. You manage multiple concurrent projects without losing control of any of them, and drive with urgency without losing stakeholder alignment.
• Adaptability & AI Fluency: You experiment with new tools and methods rather than defending old ones, and you challenge existing practices constructively, including ours. Our team increasingly relies on AI tooling to manage project complexity, information volume, and data alignment, and that reliance is expanding fast. You must be eager to work this way and to push it further. Familiarity with tools like Jira and ServiceNow is helpful but not required; how you think matters more than what you've used.
• Preferred
• Strongly preferred: experience in the trading / capital markets industry.
• Direct experience with infrastructure buildouts, data center migrations, and networking technology and hardware.
• Demonstrated use of integrated AI toolsets to improve project management efficiency and effectiveness.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• What Success Looks Like — First 6 to 12 Months
• You've taken full ownership of an active portfolio and stakeholders trust it lands, without exception.
• Engineers engage you as a credible peer: you understand their work well enough to push back, unblock, and make sound tradeoffs.
• Your projects are tracked with clarity: status, risk, cost, and dependencies are current and accurate.
• You've driven complex, cross-domain initiatives through to production, navigating disruptions, unknowns, and shifting constraints without losing control of scope, cost, or timeline.
• When things go sideways — and they will — you get ahead of them, communicate early, and keep delivery on track.
• You've integrated AI tooling into how you work daily, increasing the complexity and volume you can manage without losing data alignment.
• The annual base salary range for this position is $160,000 to $200,000 depending on the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition, DRW offers a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts.
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