Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TALENT Software Services is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex, cross-functional data and analytics initiatives. This role involves managing project interdependencies, ensuring quality outcomes, and collaborating with various teams to achieve operational goals.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning and execution of complex, cross-functional initiatives, managing interdependencies across related projects and activities to ensure alignment with business and operational goals
- Establish and enforce disciplined scope and change control practices
- Champion adoption of a requirements traceability approach or tool to maintain clear linkages between requirements, development, testing, and delivery
- Partner closely with DataWorks delivery teams and Quality Engineering (PQE) to define and execute comprehensive, data-driven testing strategies
- Embed quality controls throughout the full lifecycle to address testing competency gaps and ensure readiness from build through implementation
- Proactively identify, assess, and prioritize operational and quality risks
- Define and maintain metrics and reporting mechanisms to provide leadership with clear, actionable visibility into program health, risk profiles, and data migration effectiveness
- Orchestrate complex cross vendor integrations by defining clear operational interfaces, communication protocols, and escalation paths to ensure seamless interoperability
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and architecture teams to clarify complex functional and non-functional requirements; facilitate workshops to resolve ambiguity; contribute to solution design from an operational efficiency and quality perspective
Skills
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent relevant experience
- 8+ years of project or program management experience, including delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Experience in data, analytics, data engineering, or technology-enabled environments
- Proven experience managing matrixed teams and contractors
- Strong scope, risk, and change management expertise
- Deep understanding of SDLC, testing lifecycles, and quality management practices
- Advanced stakeholder management and executive-level communication skills
- Ability to lead cross-vendor and cross-platform integrations
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and common project management tools
- Certifications: PMP, PgMP, or equivalent preferred (not required)
- On-shore contractor (United States)
- Ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed environment
- Highly organized, analytical, and detail-oriented
- Strong leader with a proactive, problem-solving mindset
- Clear communicator capable of bridging technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience supporting enterprise data platforms or cloud-based data ecosystems
- Prior experience implementing or leveraging requirements traceability tools
- Experience working with data quality, data migration, or platform modernization initiatives
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