Technical Project Manager

Optomi; Glendale (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Optomi is seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead enterprise business management applications initiatives within a large organization. The role focuses on implementations, integrations, migrations, and modernization projects, coordinating external vendors, technical teams, and business stakeholders to ensure aligned delivery.

The position is hybrid with four onsite days in Glendale, CA, for a 12-month contract (W2).

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical project management experience, preferably supporting enterprise business applications.
• Experience managing enterprise resource management (ERM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), financial management, or comparable business systems.
• Strong vendor management experience coordinating external development teams, deliverables, schedules, and dependencies.
• Proven experience leading enterprise software implementations, integrations, migrations, enhancements, or modernization initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Agile project management methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Demonstrated ability to own project plans, milestones, schedules, risks, issues, and dependencies from initiation through delivery.
• Experience coordinating multiple technical teams, vendors, and business stakeholders in a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, including presenting project status, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Technical fluency to understand software development processes, technical requirements, system integrations, and delivery dependencies.
• Ability to translate technical initiatives into business value and communicate effectively with both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Experience working independently in ambiguous environments, establishing structure, improving processes, and driving accountability.
• Experience supporting large, complex enterprise organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise business application initiatives, including implementations, integrations, migrations, enhancements, and modernization projects.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and status reporting.
• Manage multiple external software vendors and development teams, ensuring deliverables, timelines, and dependencies are clearly defined and tracked.
• Coordinate cross-functional technical teams, product stakeholders, and business partners to drive project execution and resolve delivery challenges.
• Establish stronger project governance, accountability, and delivery processes across multiple enterprise applications.
• Support Agile delivery practices, including Scrum and Kanban, and help transition teams toward more structured sprint-based execution where appropriate.
• Communicate project progress, risks, issues, and business impacts to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Translate technical requirements, development dependencies, and system constraints into clear business implications and recommendations.
• Partner with finance, resource management, contract management, and business transformation stakeholders to prioritize initiatives and align delivery with organizational needs.
• Support enterprise system modernization efforts, including migrating manual spreadsheet-based processes into scalable enterprise applications.
• Coordinate initiatives involving enterprise data accessibility, automation, and AI-enabled business workflows in partnership with technical teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery efficiency, reduce technical debt, strengthen vendor performance, and improve overall project outcomes.
• Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities while independently establishing structure and maintaining momentum across complex initiatives.

Skills

Vendor management

Agile methods

Executive communications

Stakeholder management

Project planning

Risk management

Cross-functional coordination

Technical fluency

Tools

Clarity

XGen/NextGen

Workday

SAP

Salesforce

Jira

Azure DevOps

AWS

Job description

Technical Project Manager – Business Management Applications

Optomi is seeking a Technical Project Manager to support enterprise business management applications within a large, complex organization. This individual will lead software implementation, modernization, integration, and enhancement initiatives supporting financial management, resource planning, contract management, and business operations.

The ideal candidate brings strong technical project management experience, enterprise application expertise, and a proven ability to coordinate external vendors, technical teams, and business stakeholders. This role will focus on establishing project structure, improving delivery processes, managing dependencies, and ensuring initiatives remain aligned with business priorities.

Location: Hybrid (4x onsite in Glendale, CA)

Duration: 12-Month Contract (W2 Only)

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical project management experience, preferably supporting enterprise business applications.
• Experience managing enterprise resource management (ERM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), financial management, or comparable business systems.
• Strong vendor management experience coordinating external development teams, deliverables, schedules, and dependencies.
• Proven experience leading enterprise software implementations, integrations, migrations, enhancements, or modernization initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Agile project management methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Demonstrated ability to own project plans, milestones, schedules, risks, issues, and dependencies from initiation through delivery.
• Experience coordinating multiple technical teams, vendors, and business stakeholders in a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, including presenting project status, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Technical fluency to understand software development processes, technical requirements, system integrations, and delivery dependencies.
• Ability to translate technical initiatives into business value and communicate effectively with both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Experience working independently in ambiguous environments, establishing structure, improving processes, and driving accountability.
• Experience supporting large, complex enterprise organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Clarity, XGen/NextGen, Workday, SAP, or Salesforce.
• Background supporting financial planning, contract management, resource management, or business transformation systems.
• Experience within construction, architecture, engineering, infrastructure, or similarly complex operational environments.
• Familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, or AWS.
• Exposure to AI-enabled enterprise applications, automation, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, or AI-related data initiatives.
• Experience transitioning teams from Kanban workflows to structured Agile sprints.
• Experience managing multiple external development teams, particularly vendor teams of approximately 5–10 developers.
• Familiarity with enterprise data migration, data quality initiatives, system integrations, or application modernization.
• Experience partnering with finance executives, CFO organizations, or enterprise resource planning stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise business application initiatives, including implementations, integrations, migrations, enhancements, and modernization projects.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and status reporting.
• Manage multiple external software vendors and development teams, ensuring deliverables, timelines, and dependencies are clearly defined and tracked.
• Coordinate cross-functional technical teams, product stakeholders, and business partners to drive project execution and resolve delivery challenges.
• Establish stronger project governance, accountability, and delivery processes across multiple enterprise applications.
• Support Agile delivery practices, including Scrum and Kanban, and help transition teams toward more structured sprint-based execution where appropriate.
• Communicate project progress, risks, issues, and business impacts to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Translate technical requirements, development dependencies, and system constraints into clear business implications and recommendations.
• Partner with finance, resource management, contract management, and business transformation stakeholders to prioritize initiatives and align delivery with organizational needs.
• Support enterprise system modernization efforts, including migrating manual spreadsheet-based processes into scalable enterprise applications.
• Coordinate initiatives involving enterprise data accessibility, automation, and AI-enabled business workflows in partnership with technical teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery efficiency, reduce technical debt, strengthen vendor performance, and improve overall project outcomes.
• Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities while independently establishing structure and maintaining momentum across complex initiatives.