Sr. Project Manager

Key Responsibilities   

Program Orchestration & Workflow:

• Workstream Coordination: Directs the daily activities of Business Analysts, Data Analysts, and Technical Analysts to ensure all project streams remain on schedule and within scope.
  
• Resource Allocation: Manages team assignments and task distribution to optimize productivity across multi-disciplinary technical and business workstreams.
  

Traditional Milestone & Deliverable Management:

• Project Scheduling: Develops and maintains detailed project schedules, tracking progress against critical path milestones and key deliverables.
  
• Stage-Gate Governance: Manages the transition between project phases (Initiation, Planning, Execution, and Closure), ensuring all requirements are met before proceeding to the next gate.
  
• Formal Reporting: Produces comprehensive status reports, including RAID logs (Risks, Actions, Issues, and Dependencies), for presentation to executive leadership.
  

Government & PMO Compliance:

• Regulatory Alignment: Ensures all project activities, reporting, and documentation meet the specific compliance and transparency standards required for government-facing projects.
  
• PMI Standard Execution: Operates as a subject matter expert on PMI best practices, enforcing standardized project management methodologies across the program.
  
• Requirements Traceability: Oversees the requirements repository (e.g., Jira/Confluence), maintaining a rigorous Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) that is audit-ready and linked to the program roadmap.
  

Stakeholder Management

• Strategic Liaison: Acts as the primary point of contact between technical teams and high-level business stakeholders, facilitating formal requirements & review meetings.
  
• Roadblock Escalation: Proactively identifies project bottlenecks and escalates critical risks to the API Technical Lead or senior program leadership.
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
  
• Senior Consulting Leadership: 10+ years of experience leading high-stakes consulting programs and managing large-scale IT or data services projects.
  
• Professional Certification: Must be PMO or PMI (PMP) certified.
  
• Government Sector Expertise: Proven experience or deep functional knowledge of navigating government agencies or highly regulated public sector environments.
  
• Structured Project Management: Demonstrated ability to manage formal project lifecycles, Gantt charts, and complex dependency mapping.
  
• Team Leadership: Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams in a high-pressure, deliverable-based environment.
  
• PMO/PMI certified
  
• 10+ years managing consulting programs
  
• Government experience / knowledge
  
• Nice to have - finance transformation, billing, AR, collections knowledge
  

• Finance Transformation Knowledge: Experience in large-scale finance modernization initiatives, specifically regarding Billing, Accounts Receivable (AR), and Collections.
  
• Financial Services Background: Prior experience at the intersection of government regulation and financial data integrity.