Principal Project Manager
About The Position
The Technical Project Manager leads the delivery of large-scale data and analytics initiatives, coordinating cross-functional teams across engineering, architecture, analytics, and business stakeholders. This role ensures projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned to enterprise data and AI strategies. Project Managers are responsible for overseeing the project/engagement/contract/activity on a daily basis and are responsible for delivering high-quality results within the identified objectives and constraints, ensuring the effective use of the allocated resources. They are responsible for risk and issue management, project/engagement communication and stakeholder management. Project managers perform the activities of planning, organising, securing, monitoring and managing the resources and work necessary to deliver specific project goals and objectives in an effective and efficient way.Job Description - Grade SpecificOperate at board level in multi site contractsorengagements. PMs are fully responsible for providing deliverables or service to specification, within agreed cost and timescale, meeting the necessary quality standards and to customer satisfaction. PMs conduct client negotiations to agree terms for changes to the scope of the projectorengagement or service, setting realistic expectations and ensuring commercial viability. PMs manage project or service teams, plan activities and monitor progress. PMs ensure all contractual deliverables or services are provided using best practices and are of an appropriate quality. PMs provide factual analysis of the projectorengagement or service portfolio and the teams performance and compliance to standard tools and processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
- 8–12+ years of IT project management experience
- Strong background delivering data, analytics, or cloud modernization programs
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
Nice To Haves
- PMP, SAFe, or Agile certifications preferred
Responsibilities
- Plan and manage end-to-end delivery of data platform, analytics, and AI initiatives
- Coordinate work across data engineers, architects, analysts, and external vendors
- Develop and manage project plans, milestones, dependencies, and budgets
- Translate technical concepts into clear updates for executive and business stakeholders
- Manage risks, issue, and change requests proactively
- Ensure adherence to enterprise data architecture, governance, and security standards
- Support Agile and hybrid delivery models (Scrum, SAFe,)
- Identify and Implement Automation
Benefits
- Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
- Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee assistance programs
- Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
