Job Description
IT Project Manager - Data & Platform DeliveryDuration: 12-months
Description: Data & Platform Delivery
We are seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager (TPM) to support a single, highly versatile team that delivers work across multiple products, domains, and data initiatives. This team does not focus on one dedicated product; instead, it supports a broad range of efforts including data products, platform enhancements, integrations, and operational work.
The Senior TPM plays a critical role in bringing structure, predictability, and transparency to a dynamic environment. This role owns work intake, planning, forecasting, dependency management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder communications, while partnering closely with Product Owners and Technical Leads to support Agile execution. The ideal candidate is experienced working with technical teams, comfortable operating amid changing priorities, and able to communicate clearly with both technical and non technical stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and manage the work intake process for the team across multiple areas and products
- Partner with stakeholders to clarify scope, objectives, urgency, and constraints for incoming requests
- Ensure work requests are appropriately documented, reviewed, and sequenced before entering the backlog
- Help stakeholders understand trade offs when demand exceeds team capacity.
- Planning, Forecasting & Delivery Tracking
- Develop and maintain project plans, delivery forecasts, and timelines for a diverse set of initiatives
- Track progress across concurrent efforts and provide clear visibility into status, risks, and milestones
- Adjust plans as priorities, scope, or dependencies change
- Support scenario planning to help stakeholders understand impact of changes.
- Prioritization & Stakeholder Partnership
- Work with Product Owners and stakeholders to prioritize work based on value, urgency, risk, and capacity
- Facilitate discussions around sequencing, scope trade offs, and delivery expectations
- Serve as a trusted partner who helps translate between business needs and technical realities.
- Dependency & Risk Management
- Identify, track, and manage internal and external dependencies
- Proactively identify delivery risks, resource constraints, and potential blockers
- Drive mitigation plans and escalate issues when appropriate
- Maintain visibility into cross team or third party impacts on delivery.
- Communication & Reporting
- Own outbound communications including status updates, delivery summaries, and risk reporting
- Provide concise, audience appropriate updates to stakeholders and leadership
- Ensure expectations are aligned and changes are communicated clearly and proactively.
- Agile Participation & Execution Support
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand ups, reviews, and retrospectives
- Support the team’s Agile execution by helping track commitments, dependencies, and progress
- Partner with Product Owners and Technical Leads to ensure work is ready to execute
- Assist with Agile execution when needed, without serving as the primary facilitator
Technical Environment (Experience Strongly Preferred)This role does not require hands on development, but technical fluency is essential. Experiencewith the following technologies is a strong plus:- Data Products & Data Platforms
- AWS Services, AWS Glue, AWS DMS, AWS Lambda, Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL)
- Data Processing & Languages, PySpark, Python
- Streaming & Messaging, Kafka, Streaming and batch data pipelines
- Analytics & BI, Qlik
- Experience supporting teams that build data ingestion, transformation, streaming, and analytics solutions is highly valued.
Required Qualifications:- 6+ years of experience in technical project or program management
- Experience supporting engineering, data, or platform teams
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and ceremonies
- Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams with high variability
- Excellent organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts and dependencies
Preferred Qualifications:- Experience working with data engineering or analytics teams
- Familiarity with AWS based data architectures
- Experience managing work across multiple products or domains
- Background working in fast changing or enablement focused teams
What Success Looks Like:- Work entering the team is well intaked, clearly defined, and prioritized
- Stakeholders have clear visibility into timelines, risks, and trade offs
- Dependencies and risks are identified early and managed proactively
- Delivery remains predictable despite changing priorities
- The team can focus on execution while the TPM provides structure and clarity