IT Project Manager (Temporary Opportunity - up to 12 months)

Sydney Metro; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Job summary

Sydney Metro is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of complex technology projects that support our strategic priorities. You will own scope, schedule, budget, governance, risks, and dependencies, while collaborating with technology, business, and vendor teams to drive delivery and value.

You will provide clear reporting and insights, proactively resolve delivery challenges, and ensure projects deliver business value, operational improvements, and better

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex technology projects and programs.
• Strong planning, scheduling, financial and commercial management.
• Experience managing risks, issues, dependencies and governance.
• Stakeholder, vendor and executive engagement skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and resolve delivery challenges.
• Focus on delivery outcomes, business value and customer impact.
• Experience working across technology, transformation and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex technology projects and programs.
• Own scope, schedule, budget, governance, risks and dependencies.
• Work across technology, business, and vendor teams to drive delivery.
• Provide clear reporting and insights, proactively resolve delivery challenges.
• Ensure projects deliver business value, operational improvements, and better customer outcomes.

Skills

Delivery of complex tech projects

Project planning & scheduling

Risk & governance management

Stakeholder & vendor engagement

Priority management

Delivery-focused with business value

Job description

If you’re after impact, there’s no other organisation in Australia that delivers work on this scale. This is your opportunity to broaden your experience and perspectives, step out of the confines of a standard project role and expand your scope to work with an interconnected ecosystem of industry professionals. In this role, you’ll: Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex technology projects and programs that support Sydney Metro’s strategic priorities. You’ll take ownership of scope, schedule, budget, governance, risks, and dependencies, working across technology, business, and vendor teams to drive delivery and achieve measurable outcomes. You’ll provide clear reporting and insights, proactively resolve delivery challenges, and ensure projects deliver business value, operational improvements, and better customer outcomes. For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description and information pack .

About you We’re looking for an experienced and delivery-focused IT Project Manager with a strong track record delivering complex technology initiatives. You are comfortable operating in complex environments, bringing structure to ambiguity and engaging stakeholders at all levels to keep delivery moving.

Key attributes

• Proven experience delivering complex technology projects and programs.
• Strong project planning, scheduling, financial and commercial management.
• Experience managing risks, issues, dependencies, and governance.
• Strong stakeholder, vendor, and executive engagement skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and resolve delivery challenges/
• Strong focus on delivery outcomes, business value, and customer impact.
• Experience working across technology, transformation, and business teams

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day. Sydney Metro delivers Australia’s biggest public transport project and first driverless railway. We engage with our customers and community, and contribute to vibrant and attractive places through station design, interchanges and precincts.

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers . Flexible work options may be available. Learn more via Flexible work options and policy

Applications close 11:59 PM Tuesday 17 November 2026.

For more information about this role, please contact [e-mail].

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