Senior IT Projects Lead (Remote) - Cloud & Integrations

Gannett Fleming; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Wellness programs

Parental leave

Pet insurance

Medical, dental, vision, disability, &

Job summary

GFT is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex technology initiatives within our Practice or IT Services teams. This role supports a remote work model but requires US location, preferably Central time zone, and involves coordinating across engineering, data, security, and business stakeholders.

The Senior PM will drive governance, risk management, and execution across enterprise systems, cloud platforms, and data initiatives, delivering on-time results with measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of project management experience delivering complex technology and business transformation initiatives.
• Proven experience managing large, cross-functional projects involving enterprise applications, cloud platforms, integrations, infrastructure, data, and security teams.
• Demonstrated success managing projects through the full project lifecycle, from initiation and planning through implementation and post-production support.
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery approaches.
• Experience developing and managing project plans, budgets, schedules, dependencies, and resource allocations.
• Proven ability to identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Experience leading vendor and third-party implementation partners and managing contractual deliverables.
• Experience facilitating governance processes, steering committees, status reviews, and executive reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into actionable technical delivery plans.
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

• Leads end-to-end delivery of complex technical projects, including enterprise systems, integrations, cloud platforms, and data initiatives
• Defines project scope, objectives, success criteria, and delivery approach in alignment with business and technical stakeholders
• Develops and manages project plans, schedules, dependencies, budgets, resource allocations, and project performance against key milestones.
• Serves as the primary point of accountability for project execution, issue resolution, and decision escalation
• Coordinates cross-functional teams, including developers, architects, data engineers, vendors, business partners, and third-party providers.
• Translates business requirements into actionable technical work plans and ensure alignment with architectural standards
• Establishes and maintains project governance, status reporting, and executive level communication
• Identify, assess, and actively manage project risks, assumptions, dependencies, and change requests, with mitigation plans and impact assessments in place.
• Facilitates key project ceremonies such as kickoff meetings, design reviews, status reviews, and retrospectives
• Ensures quality delivery through adherence to best practices, documentation standards, and technical validation
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Skills

Microsoft Project

Azure DevOps

Jira

Smartsheet

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Business/Engineering

15+ years project management experience

Tools

Microsoft Project

Azure DevOps

Jira

Smartsheet

Job description

GFT is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex technology initiatives within our Practice or IT Services teams. This role supports a remote work model but requires US location, preferably Central time zone, and involves coordinating across engineering, data, security, and business stakeholders.

The Senior PM will drive governance, risk management, and execution across enterprise systems, cloud platforms, and data initiatives, delivering on-time results with measurable business value.