GovTech Project Manager: Data Ingestion & Stakeholder Delivery

Citian; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Generous PTO

401(k) match

Commuter transportation benefits

On-site gym

Free office snacks

Job summary

Citian is a Washington, DC-based SaaS company delivering data-centric transportation software solutions. The Project Manager will lead end-to-end data ingestion and implementation projects for government clients, coordinating with state DOTs, MPOs, and GIS specialists to ensure on-time, in-scope delivery.

You will translate SOWs into detailed plans, manage cross-functional teams, and navigate public procurement norms while communicating progress to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in an enterprise SaaS implementation, professional services, or technical consulting environment.
• 2+ years of project management experience.
• Strong background within Data Engineering or Data Science including ingestion and extraction.
• Demonstrated ability to own complex, multi-stakeholder projects end-to-end with hard deadlines.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, building process where there isn't one, not just following it.

Responsibilities

• Own the full implementation lifecycle from contract execution through internal launch and client training handoff.
• Translate customer SOWs and commercial documents into structured project plans with phases, milestones, tasks and deliverables.
• Build and maintain project-specific work breakdown structures and project plans for each assigned Citian project.
• Serve as the primary client-facing point of contact for state DOTs, MPOs, cities and counties from kickoff through stabilization.
• Navigate government procurement norms, understanding how milestone acceptance, change orders, and SOW amendments work in a public agency context.
• Drive client data readiness and scope: Ensure customers provide timely access to scoped data for ingestion in accordance with prescribed timelines and Statements of Work.
• Coordinate with engineering to ensure timely completion of environment builds and configuration and quality assurance tasks.
• Translate technical delivery status into plain-language updates for non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Project management

Data ingestion

Data engineering

Communication

Public sector experience

Education

PMP or equivalent certification

Tools

Esri REST services

Geodatabases (GDB)

GIS concepts

Job description

Citian is a Washington, DC-based SaaS company delivering data-centric transportation software solutions. The Project Manager will lead end-to-end data ingestion and implementation projects for government clients, coordinating with state DOTs, MPOs, and GIS specialists to ensure on-time, in-scope delivery.

You will translate SOWs into detailed plans, manage cross-functional teams, and navigate public procurement norms while communicating progress to senior stakeholders.