Job description

The Technical Project Manager (IT Services & Open Source Technologies) role at Red Hat in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is responsible for managing IT-based services projects across KSA, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, and Iraq within the EMEA Services team, overseeing the full project lifecycle from initiation through delivery and closure. The role involves coordinating cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams, managing project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting activities, and establishing metrics for measuring key project criteria. The position requires ownership of project economics including costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, resource allocation, and risk management while ensuring adherence to legally binding requirements and handling scope and change management issues. The candidate will develop project control solutions and reporting procedures, integrate and utilize project management tools, and contribute to project proposals, bids, contracts, estimates, and schedules. Responsibilities include facilitating status review meetings, monitoring subcontractors, ensuring timely submission of timesheets, and managing operational plan changes. The role requires applying industry-standard project management methodologies including Project Management Institute (PMI) and PMP methodologies, Red Hat’s services project management methodology, and practices related to systems and software development and product development. The position also involves coaching and training project teams on procedures, processes, and methodologies, supporting process improvement initiatives, and promoting adoption of project management fundamentals. Preferred expertise includes cloud technologies, middleware, open source technologies, Linux, containers, and Kubernetes, aligning with Red Hat’s enterprise open source software solutions portfolio.