Senior Project Manager (PMO)

Role Overview

Delivery & Schedule Management

Risk, Budget & Decision Management

Governance & Executive Reporting

Cross-Functional Program Leadership

Key Working Relationships

Core Deliverables

Success Measures

Role Positioning

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing complex software, technology, or data-platform programs, including at least 3 years leading multi-workstream programs with executive visibility.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of program schedule, budget, dependencies, risks, and delivery outcomes for programs of comparable scope. This should be direct ownership—not coordination support for another project manager’s plan.
• Experience delivering programs in a regulated environment, where audit trails, evidence, documentation, and traceability are core delivery requirements.
• Strong experience running Agile delivery at scale alongside phase-gated executive governance, with the ability to translate between Agile execution and executive-level milestones and decisions.
• Proven track record establishing and managing:
• Decision logs
• Risk and issue registers
• Dependency trackers
• Executive dashboards
• Program status reporting
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to create clear project dashboards and executive updates that provide the right information to the right audience.
• Experience managing external customer, partner, or design-partner commitments as integrated components of the delivery plan.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to drive accountability across Product, Engineering, Data, QA, Infrastructure, Commercial, and Customer Experience teams.
• The ideal candidate is an experienced program delivery leader, not simply a project coordinator. You have personally owned complex delivery commitments, know how to surface problems before they become surprises, and can move comfortably between Agile teams, executive governance, customer commitments, and business-level outcomes.
• You bring the structure needed to make a complex, cross-functional technology program predictable, transparent, and accountable.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in pipeline integrity, utilities, energy, infrastructure, or another asset-intensive regulated industry.
• Experience delivering data-platform, ML, or AI programs using:
• Microsoft Azure
• Databricks
• Lakehouse architectures
• Model registries
• Model serving
• Data/model governance
• Four-year degree or equivalent professional experience.
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent program/project management certification.
• Experience integrating an acquired team, product, platform, or technology into an existing organization or operating model.
• What We're Looking For
• The ideal candidate is an experienced program delivery leader, not simply a project coordinator. You have personally owned complex delivery commitments, know how to surface problems before they become surprises, and can move comfortably between Agile teams, executive governance, customer commitments, and business-level outcomes.
• You bring the structure needed to make a complex, cross-functional technology program predictable, transparent, and accountable.

What We're Looking For

Benefits

• Competitive Salary – A competitive compensation package based on experience and qualifications.
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance – Comprehensive insurance coverage to support you and your family.
• 401(k) Plan with Company Match.
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) – Time off to support work-life balance and personal needs.
• Company-Paid Holidays – Paid holidays throughout the year.
• Flexible Work Options – Work-from-home opportunities are available, depending on role and business needs.
• On-Call Compensation – Additional pay for eligible on-call shifts.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the integrated project plan across Product, Engineering, Data, QA, Infrastructure, and Go-to-Market workstreams.
• Establish and manage phase-gate milestones, release dates, and critical-path activities.
• Lead the weekly delivery cadence, including:
• Sprint and release checkpoints
• Workstream status reviews
• Cross-functional dependency management
• Critical-path reviews
• Schedule recovery and corrective actions
• Maintain a single source of truth for program status, milestones, dependencies, and delivery health.
• Reconcile the delivery plan against actual engineering and team capacity.
• Identify schedule slippage early and drive mitigation plans with accountable owners.
• Own the program risk register, covering:
• Technical risks
• Data risks
• Regulatory/compliance risks
• Vendor risks
• Resourcing and hiring risks
• Delivery and operational risks
• Ensure every material risk has a named owner, mitigation plan, target date, and escalation trigger.
• Track program budget and vendor spend, including:
• Azure consumption
• Databricks consumption
• Software and platform licensing
• Contractor costs
• Other program-related vendor expenditure
• Monitor actuals versus budget and flag variances early.
• Maintain the program decision log, documenting:
• Decision required
• Options/trade-offs considered
• Decision made
• Decision owner
• Rationale
• Date and downstream impact
• Ensure key decisions are documented clearly enough to support phase-gate reviews, governance, and future audits.
• Own the steering committee cadence, including:
• Agenda
• Pre-read materials
• Status reporting
• Decisions required
• Actions and follow-up
• Prepare concise Executive Sponsor updates covering:
• Overall program health
• Schedule
• Budget
• Key risks
• Dependencies
• Upcoming milestones
• Prepare materials for steering committee and board-level reporting.
• Coordinate phase-gate approvals with the Executive Sponsor, who owns the business case and funding.
• Ensure governance forums result in clear decisions, accountable owners, and documented follow-through.
• Coordinate and manage the cross-functional project team across:
• Product
• Engineering
• Data Architecture
• Data Engineering
• Data Science
• Platform Engineering
• QA
• Infrastructure
• Marketing
• Sales
• Customer Experience
• Establish clear ownership, accountability, timelines, and interdependencies across workstreams.
• Facilitate resolution of cross-functional blockers and escalate issues when required.
• Maintain alignment between technical delivery and commercial/customer-readiness activities.
• Coordinate with external customer design partners to ensure customer feedback and validation are incorporated into delivery.
• The Senior Project Manager sits within the PMO and works closely with:
• Executive Sponsor — business case, funding, executive decisions, and phase-gate approvals
• Product Manager — product scope, priorities, requirements, and roadmap
• Engineering Manager — engineering execution, capacity, technical dependencies, and releases
• Data Architect — data architecture and platform dependencies
• Data Engineers — data pipelines, integration, and data readiness
• Data Scientists — analytics, models, experimentation, and data science deliverables
• Platform Engineers — platform, cloud, and environment readiness
• QA — quality strategy, testing, defects, and release readiness
• Infrastructure — environments, infrastructure, reliability, and operational readiness
• Marketing & Sales — positioning, launch readiness, enablement, and commercial dependencies
• Customer Experience — customer adoption, feedback, implementation readiness, and support
• External Customer Design Partners — validation, feedback, and product readiness
• The Senior Project Manager will be accountable for maintaining and delivering:
• Integrated master project plan
• Detailed milestone and phase-gate schedule
• Weekly program status report
• Dependency tracker
• Critical-path analysis
• Program risk and issue register
• Program budget and vendor-spend tracker
• Decision log
• Steering committee agenda and materials
• Executive Sponsor and board reporting
• Phase-gate readiness assessments
• Cross-functional action tracker
• Release and go-to-market readiness plan
• Success in this role means:
• Milestones are predictable and phase gates are achieved or proactively re-baselined.
• Risks are visible early, with clear ownership and mitigation.
• Budget and cloud/vendor spend are controlled with no surprise variances.
• Dependencies are actively managed, rather than discovered late.
• Product, Engineering, Data, QA, and Go-to-Market teams remain aligned.
• Executives have a clear, accurate view of program health and decisions required.
• Major decisions and trade-offs are documented and auditable.
• The platform reaches launch with technical, operational, commercial, and customer readiness aligned.
• This is an execution and orchestration role. The Senior Project Manager does not own the product roadmap, technical architecture, or business case; instead, they ensure the people who own those areas are aligned, accountable, and delivering against an integrated plan.
• AI Use in Hiring
• As part of our hiring process, this role may use artificial intelligence or automated tools to assist with reviewing and screening applications. These tools support, but do not replace, human judgment in making hiring decisions.