Data Project Manager

Job Description: Data Project Manager

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 transition plans
• Project closure report and lessons learned
• Client-ready proposals, estimates, and delivery approaches where required

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