Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Deutsche Börse is seeking an IT Project Manager for critical infrastructure transformation initiatives supporting its commodities trading systems. The role leads project governance, technical coordination, migration and cutover planning, risk management, and stakeholder reporting across infrastructure teams and external vendors.

Responsibilities

• Project Governance & Execution: Build, baseline, and maintain comprehensive, milestone-driven technical project plans, resource allocations, and critical-path schedules
• Cross-Entity Alignment: Drive coordination across multiple legal entities, infrastructure engineering teams, network operations, security, data center facilities, and external vendors/cabling contractors
• Migration & Cutover Planning: Define granular runbooks, rollback strategies, and cutover protocols for the recabling and migration of 300+ mission-critical bare-metal and appliance targets
• Risk & Dependency Management: Proactively identify architectural bottlenecks, multi-team dependencies, lead times for hardware delivery, and operational risks
• Stakeholder Reporting: Provide clear, data-driven status reporting, KPI tracking, and escalation management directly to the Head of Infrastructure Engineering and IT leadership

Skills

• Fluent English and Czech
• 5+ years of technical project management experience delivering large-scale data center, network, or systems infrastructure projects in high-availability environments (FinTech, Capital Markets, Energy/Commodities, or Telecommunications)
• Technical foundation in Layer-2/Layer-3 networking, physical data center rack/cable management, server lifecycle migrations, and enterprise storage/backup architectures (e.g., immutable snapshots, air-gapped storage)
• Proven track record in detailed cutover planning, change management (ITIL), runbook creation, and managing complex multi-stakeholder initiatives across matrixed organizations
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills; ability to translate technical constraints into executive-level briefings
• German is a plus
• Ideally backed by a recognized certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2)

Benefits

• Hybrid work in Prague 8, with 50% home office

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