Rail Digital Transformation Project Manager (69302)

Hitachi Digital Services, LLC; Roma; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Digital Services, LLC is seeking an experienced Programme Manager to lead large-scale railway digital transformation initiatives. You will manage end-to-end delivery across asset management, maintenance optimization, and smart operations, coordinating cross-functional teams and ensuring governance, budgeting, and risk controls are in place.

The role involves collaboration with diverse stakeholders, defining roadmaps and business cases, and driving technology adoption across cloud, data,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in project and program management within the railway industry, with a strong focus on digital transformation, operational excellence, and technology-enabled business change.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of rail digitalization initiatives including asset management, maintenance optimization, smart operations and enterprise platforms.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across business consulting, engineering, software development, systems integration, testing, commissioning, and operational support.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary customer-facing interface for project governance, executive reporting, steering committees, planning workshops, and stakeholder management.
• Drive project planning, budgeting, forecasting, risk management, issue resolution, change control, and dependency management.
• Support digital transformation programs across railway operations, maintenance, fleet, depot, signaling, asset performance, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to define transformation roadmaps, business cases, and operational improvements.
• Ensure successful delivery of projects involving cloud, data, analytics, AI, IoT, and enterprise applications in railway environments.
• Support commercial discussions, proposals, SOWs, contract execution, and customer growth opportunities.

Skills

Railway industry

Digital transformation

Project management

Asset management

Data & analytics

IoT & connected systems

Stakeholder management

Enterprise transformation

Agile & waterfall

Budget & risk management

SOW & governance

Cloud & data platforms

Job description

Our Company We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration. Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Job Description

• 10+ years of experience in project and program management within the railway industry, with a strong focus on digital transformation, operational excellence, and technology-enabled business change.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of rail digitalization initiatives, including asset management, maintenance optimization, smart operations, fleet management, condition monitoring, enterprise platforms, cloud, data, AI, IoT, and connected railway solutions.
• Manage complex projects involving multiple stakeholders across railway operators, infrastructure managers, rolling stock organizations, engineering teams, and technology providers.
• Serve as the primary customer-facing interface for project governance, executive reporting, steering committees, planning workshops, and stakeholder management.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across business consulting, engineering, software development, systems integration, testing, commissioning, and operational support.
• Drive project planning, budgeting, forecasting, risk management, issue resolution, change control, and dependency management throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support digital transformation programs across railway operations, maintenance, fleet, depot, signaling, asset performance, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to define transformation roadmaps, business cases, operational improvements, and technology adoption strategies.
• Ensure successful delivery of projects involving cloud, data, analytics, AI, IoT, enterprise applications, and industrial digital solutions within railway environments.
• Support commercial discussions, proposal development, Statements of Work (SOWs), contract execution, and customer growth opportunities.
• Establish project governance frameworks, KPIs, reporting mechanisms, and delivery controls to ensure transparency, quality, and predictable outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with railway standards, customer requirements, quality expectations, cybersecurity principles, and organizational delivery processes.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to operate effectively in complex, multinational delivery environments.

Skills

• Railway Industry Domain Expertise
• Digital Transformation Programs
• Project & Program Management
• Asset Management & Maintenance Transformation
• Data, AI & Analytics Solutions
• IoT & Connected Systems
• Customer & Stakeholder Management
• Enterprise Transformation
• Agile and Waterfall Delivery Models
• Budget, Financial and Risk Management
• SOW, Commercial and Governance Management
• Cloud and Data Platforms

About Us

We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.