Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Data Project Manager tolead and deliver data-driven transformation initiatives for our clients. Thesuccessful candidate will combine strong project management expertise withhands-on experience managing data-related projects, cross-functional deliveryteams, and senior stakeholders in a consulting or client-facing environment. The role requires a results-driven professional who caneffectively bridge business, technology, and data teams while ensuringsuccessful project delivery, strong governance, and high levels of clientsatisfaction.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of data and analytics transformation projects.
- Define project scope, objectives, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and success criteria.
- Develop and maintain project plans, RAID logs, governance structures, status reports, and delivery documentation.
- Manage multiple workstreams and coordinate cross-functional teams, including business, data, technology, architecture, and operations stakeholders.
- Establish effective project governance, reporting, risk management, issue resolution, and change-control processes.
- Engage with senior client stakeholders to understand business objectives, communicate progress, and manage expectations.
- Translate business requirements into structured project deliverables and actionable data initiatives.
- Monitor project progress, budgets, resources, dependencies, quality, and delivery risks.
- Facilitate project meetings, steering committees, workshops, and stakeholder reviews.
- Identify delivery challenges proactively and implement appropriate mitigation and recovery plans.
- Ensure alignment between business outcomes, data strategy, technology delivery, and organizational priorities.
- Support user acceptance testing, implementation planning, transition activities, and post-go-live reviews.
- Contribute to project proposals, statements of work, solution presentations, estimates, and client pursuits.
- Support presales activities, including discovery workshops, proposal development, delivery approach definition, and effort estimation.
- Promote consistent project management practices, standards, and lessons learned across engagements.
- Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with organizational processes, quality standards, and client requirements.
Required Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum of 5 years of project management experience .
- At least 3 years of experience managing data-related, data transformation, analytics, or technology projects .
- Experience managing projects in a consulting, systems integration, technology services, or client delivery environment.
- Proven experience managing project governance, stakeholder communication, risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery reporting.
- Strong experience coordinating multiple workstreams and cross-functional delivery teams.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and client-facing communication skills.
- Strong problem-solving, planning, prioritization, and decision-making abilities.
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects in fast-paced and changing environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience with a Tier 1 technology consulting or professional services firm .
- Experience delivering projects involving data platforms, data migration, data governance, data quality, business intelligence, reporting, analytics, or cloud data transformation.
- Experience supporting presales activities, proposal development, statements of work, or client pursuits.
- Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, hybrid, or scaled delivery methodologies.
- Professional certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, SAFe, or equivalent.
- Familiarity with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, or equivalent.
- Understanding of data governance, data architecture, data privacy, data quality, and analytics delivery concepts.
Core Competencies
- Data project and program delivery
- Project planning and governance
- Stakeholder and client management
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Risk, issue, and dependency management
- Scope, schedule, budget, and resource management
- Business and data team coordination
- Consulting and client engagement
- Problem solving and decision making
- Executive communication and presentation
- Presales and proposal support
- Change management and delivery assurance
Key Deliverables
- Approved project charter and delivery plan
- Project schedule, milestones, and workstream plans
- RAID log and dependency tracker
- Governance and communication plan
- Regular project status reports and steering committee updates
- Risk mitigation and issue-resolution plans
- Resource and financial tracking reports
- Workshop and requirements documentation
- Testing, implementation, and trans