Senior Associate Project Manager – Data Ecosystems and Platforms

Publicis Sapient; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Sapient seeks a Project Manager with 3-5 years in health, biomedical research, or data-driven programs to coordinate a large data ecosystem portfolio. You will manage schedules, deliverables, and stakeholder engagement across scientific, technical, and government partners.

The role supports governance processes, data inventories, metadata standards, and platform documentation, contributing to reusable data assets and ready-to-operate data products from working groups through review and

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience supporting project management, program coordination, or data-driven initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree in public health, health administration, data science, policy, research, or related field preferred.
• Experience tracking milestones, deliverables, risks, action items, and reporting across multi-stakeholder programs.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills; ability to structure and summarize program data for leadership review.
• Ability to prepare clear meeting notes, project summaries, presentations, trackers, updates, and stakeholder communications.
• Familiarity with data governance, metadata practices, data standards, data quality, repository workflows, or similar processes.
• Proficiency with tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, Planner, Teams, SharePoint, Jira, Tableau; Power BI, Confluence, SQL helpful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Support the integrated delivery plan for a large data ecosystem by maintaining schedules and milestones.
• Coordinate governance, leadership, and stakeholder meetings; manage agenda, notes, and action items.
• Assist with development of data ecosystem artifacts including inventories, metadata specs, data models, and governance materials.
• Support data quality, validation, and readiness activities; track issues and risks.
• Help plan stakeholder review cycles and compile feedback for governance decisions.
• Prepare weekly status inputs, dashboards, milestone updates, meeting summaries, and logs for leadership review.
• Maintain project resources across collaboration platforms and ensure controlled versioning of artifacts.
• Assist with data lineage documentation and operational readiness for data products across repositories and tools.
• Support orientations, demonstrations, workshops, and outreach materials for stakeholder communities.
• Serve as a coordination liaison among program leadership, product owners, data stewards, platform teams, and client reps.

Skills

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Meeting facilitation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Planner

Teams

SharePoint

Jira

Tableau

Power BI

Confluence

SQL

NIH portfolio or grants-management systems

Job description

We are seeking a Project Manager with approximately 3-5 years of experience supporting health, biomedical research, public health, federal research, or data-driven programs. This role will support day-to-day coordination of a large data ecosystem portfolio, help manage schedules and deliverables, coordinate scientific, technical, and government stakeholders, and contribute to the development of reusable data assets, metadata resources, governance workflows, platform documentation, and integration-ready data products from working-group activities through review, approval, and operational adoption.

Project Background

The federal initiative is advancing a reusable data ecosystem that improves how biomedical and research data are defined, organized, governed, exchanged, and reused across programs, repositories, and stakeholder communities. The program applies recognized biomedical data standards, metadata practices, structured review methods, and governance processes to create durable data resources, documentation, and platform-ready artifacts for the broader research community.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the integrated delivery plan for a large data ecosystem by maintaining schedules, tracking milestones, documenting dependencies, and helping monitor progress across workstreams against approved timelines.
• Coordinate governance, leadership, technical, and stakeholder working-group meetings, including agenda preparation, participant scheduling, meeting notes, action-item tracking, and follow-up communications.
• Assist with preparation and refinement of data ecosystem artifacts, including data inventories, metadata specifications, data models, governance materials, standards mappings, reference documentation, and platform-support materials under the direction of senior program and technical leads.
• Support data quality, validation, and readiness activities by organizing review inputs, tracking open issues, documenting risks and dependencies, maintaining structured review logs, and coordinating with data, platform, repository, and technical teams.
• Help plan stakeholder review cycles, compile feedback, maintain response trackers, and support preparation of materials for governance, decision-making, and approval processes.
• Prepare weekly status inputs, dashboards, milestone updates, meeting summaries, and risk, issue, decision, and action logs for review by senior project leadership and client stakeholders.
• Maintain project resources across approved collaboration platforms, including stakeholder rosters, templates, correspondence, meeting records, data-product documentation, delivery trackers, and controlled versions of project artifacts.
• Support documentation of data lineage, provenance, version history, access considerations, integration requirements, and operational readiness so approved data products and platform artifacts can be maintained across repositories, catalogs, APIs, analytics tools, and stakeholder-facing channels.
• Assist with orientations, demonstrations, office hours, workshops, and outreach materials for business, scientific, data, technical, and end-user stakeholder communities.
• Serve as a dependable project coordination liaison among program leadership, product owners, data stewards, platform teams, solution architects, technical staff, business stakeholders, and client representatives, escalating complex scope, technical, governance, risk, or delivery decisions to senior leadership as appropriate.

Key Deliverables

• Updated milestone trackers, workstream schedules, action logs, issue logs, meeting follow-up trackers, and status-report inputs for the project.
• Draft and reviewed program and data ecosystem support materials, including data inventory updates, metadata or data-quality review records, platform documentation inputs, validation-support notes, and repository-readiness artifacts under guidance from senior technical and program leads.
• Meeting agendas, minutes, decision logs, stakeholder follow-up notes, and consolidated public-review feedback trackers.
• Draft operating procedures, reusable templates, step-by-step process documentation, and program handbook inputs.
• Assist with training materials, outreach content, dashboard inputs, and documentation packages supporting governance and repository readiness.

What the Candidate May Be Excited About

This assignment offers the opportunity to support a nationally visible effort focused on improving how biomedical research data are organized, reviewed, shared, and reused. The candidate will work with government program leaders, scientific experts, data repositories, and standards contributors while building hands-on experience in biomedical data governance, stakeholder coordination, working-group operations, and structured program delivery.

Required Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience supporting project management, program coordination, public health, biomedical research, Federal consulting, or data-driven initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree in public health, health administration, data science, policy, research, or a related field preferred.
• Experience tracking milestones, deliverables, risks, action items, meeting outcomes, and reporting requirements across multi-stakeholder programs.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills, including the ability to clean, structure, interpret, and summarize program or portfolio data for leadership review.
• Ability to prepare clear meeting notes, project summaries, presentations, trackers, status updates, and stakeholder communications.
• Familiarity with data governance, metadata practices, data standards, data quality, research-data documentation, repository workflows, or comparable program documentation and review processes.
• Proficiency with common project, data, and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Planner, Teams, SharePoint, Jira, Tableau, NIH portfolio or grants-management systems, or comparable platforms; experience with Power BI, Confluence, SQL, or related tools is helpful but not required.
• Ability to engage in discussions with program, data, technical, repository, and analytics stakeholders; comfort learning technical concepts related to data review, mapping, validation, access, reporting, and operational readiness is expected.
• Demonstrated professionalism, attention to detail, adaptability, and ability to work effectively with scientific, technical, operational, and government stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Federal biomedical research, public health, health data, or large multi-stakeholder program environments.
• Experience supporting scientific meetings, working groups, awardee engagements, principal investigator meetings, or cross-functional stakeholder forums.
• Working knowledge of research administration, portfolio analysis, grant lifecycle, repository, or comparable program-management systems and tools.
• Interest in applying AI-enabled review support, data visualization, prompt engineering, or analytics techniques to improve program coordination and data-quality workflows.

Additional Information

• An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Flexibility to support work-life balance.
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family.
• Generous paid leave and holidays.
• Wellness program and employee assistance.

Pay Range

$110,000-$150,000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work.

Equal Employment Opportunity

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [e-mail]

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.