Senior Project Manager

Emanate Technology; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 146,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Emanate Technology is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead a major digital transformation for a Queensland Government program. You will oversee delivery of an enterprise-wide information system, manage budgets, risks, and stakeholder expectations.

The role requires coordinating multidisciplinary teams, vendors, and partners, applying Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methods, and delivering on time and within scope in a complex government environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex technology and digital transformation projects in large-scale environments.
• Strong project leadership experience with budgets, governance, reporting, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and external delivery partners.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior executives.
• Experience delivering software development projects from initiation through implementation.
• Strong understanding of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methods.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and drive outcomes in complex organisations.
• Experience developing executive briefings, reports, business cases, and project documentation.
• Proven capability to identify and mitigate project risks before they impact delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of a large-scale digital transformation project.
• Manage multiple workstreams, dependencies, risks, issues, budgets, and delivery schedules.
• Provide leadership to multidisciplinary teams including analysts, technical teams, vendors, and partners.
• Oversee software development and technology delivery using Agile, iterative, and hybrid methods.
• Drive cloud-based initiatives including infra, platform services, migration, and release management.
• Develop and maintain senior stakeholder and delivery-partner relationships.
• Ensure governance, reporting, assurance, and compliance activities are managed effectively.
• Prepare and present executive-level reports and project status updates.
• Monitor financials and resource utilisation to ensure sound delivery outcomes.
• Champion continuous improvement and best-practice project management methodologies.

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Agile/Hybrid delivery

Software delivery

Executive briefing

Risk management

Budget governance

Job description

Senior Project Manager

6 Month Contract | Brisbane CBD Location | Hybrid | $128.81+Super per hour

About the role

We are partnering with a large Queensland Government organisation to appoint an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of a major digital transformation program.

This role will oversee the implementation of a contemporary, enterprise-wide information system that will replace a critical legacy platform. Working within a complex stakeholder environment, you will lead multidisciplinary teams, manage vendor relationships, and drive successful project outcomes across scope, budget, schedule, quality, and risk.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a seasoned project leader who has successfully delivered large-scale technology and software development projects within complex government or enterprise environments.

What you will be doing

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of a large-scale digital transformation project.
• Manage multiple workstreams, project dependencies, risks, issues, budgets, and delivery schedules.
• Provide leadership to multidisciplinary teams including project resources, business analysts, technical teams, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Oversee software development and technology delivery using Agile, iterative, and hybrid project methodologies.
• Drive cloud-based initiatives including infrastructure, platform services, migration activities, and release management.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders, executives, vendors, and delivery partners.
• Ensure project governance, reporting, assurance, and compliance activities are effectively managed.
• Prepare and present executive-level reports, briefings, recommendations, and project status updates.
• Monitor project financials, forecasts, and resource utilisation to ensure commercially sound delivery outcomes.
• Champion continuous improvement and best-practice project management methodologies across the program.

What you will bring

• Proven experience delivering complex technology and digital transformation projects in large-scale environments.
• Strong project leadership experience with responsibility for budgets, governance, reporting, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Demonstrated success managing multidisciplinary teams and external delivery partners.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior executives and business leaders.
• Experience delivering software development projects from initiation through to implementation.
• Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and drive successful outcomes within complex organisational environments.
• Experience developing executive briefings, reports, business cases, and project documentation.
• Proven capability to identify and mitigate project risks before they impact delivery outcomes.

Bonus points for

• Previous experience delivering major Queensland Government or public sector programs.
• Experience leading enterprise application modernisation or legacy system replacement initiatives.
• Exposure to cloud migration, platform modernisation, or large-scale systems integration projects.
• Experience managing outsourced software development partners and vendor contracts.
• Formal project management certifications such as PRINCE2, PMP, AgilePM, SAFe, or equivalent.
• Experience working within highly governed environments requiring robust assurance and reporting practices.

We are an inclusive employer committed to fostering a diverse and accessible workplace. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people of all ages, and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.