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Senior Project Manager
ICONMA, LLC
- 🇺🇸 United States
- On-site
- Manager or above
- 8 hours ago
- $70 – $75 / hour
- ETL
- Jira
- Confluence
- Kanban
- Waterfall
- Agile
- PMP
- Alation
- GCP
- BigQuery
8 hours ago
Responsibilities:
- The Enterprise Data & Analytics Services (EDAS) organization is seeking an experienced Project Manager to help deliver enterprise data initiatives that support critical business, regulatory, and operational objectives.
- This role drives project execution across multiple teams by coordinating activities, managing dependencies, tracking deliverables, and ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility into project progress and readiness.
- Working closely with Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Domain Managers, Engineers, Architects, Governance teams, business stakeholders, and project managers from partner organizations, this individual serves as a central coordination point across EDAS.
- The Project Manager partners with enterprise initiative leaders to ensure data-related workstreams remain aligned with broader project objectives while providing clear visibility into delivery status, dependencies, risks, readiness, and implementation progress.
- EDAS delivers data capabilities that support reporting, analytics, regulatory requirements, operational processes, and strategic business initiatives across the enterprise.
- This role helps ensure those efforts remain coordinated, visible, and on track by bringing together stakeholders across multiple teams and providing a consolidated view of delivery status, readiness, dependencies, and progress.
- Project Execution & Delivery Management
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, RAID logs, action-item trackers, and project documentation.
- Drive execution across multiple concurrent projects while maintaining visibility into deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, and milestones.
- Track commitments, action items, and key decisions, ensuring accountability and timely completion.
- Identify, manage, and escalate risks, issues, constraints, and dependency impacts before they affect delivery.
- Partner with business and technology project managers to ensure EDAS deliverables, dependencies, milestones, and implementation activities remain aligned with broader project and program objectives.
- Facilitate implementation planning, readiness reviews, project checkpoints, and status meetings.
- Ensure stakeholders have clear visibility into project health, delivery progress, and implementation readiness.
- Team Coordination & Facilitation
- Serve as a central coordination point across EDAS teams supporting project delivery.
- Partner with Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Domain Managers, Engineers, Architects, Governance teams, Test Leads, Product Owners, and business stakeholders to maintain a unified view of project progress.
- Coordinate activities across multiple EDAS squads and workstreams while aligning data-related deliverables and dependencies with broader business and technology initiatives led by partner project teams.
- Consolidate status, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, action items, and milestones into a single integrated project view.
- Provide a consolidated view of EDAS delivery status, dependencies, risks, and readiness to support overall project and program reporting.
- Facilitate cross-team coordination meetings, implementation readiness activities, and dependency management discussions.
- Promote transparency, accountability, communication, and coordination across participating teams.
- Status Reporting & Communication
- Prepare and deliver concise, fact-based project status updates.
- Create and maintain executive-ready dashboards, scorecards, status reports, and governance materials.
- Communicate accomplishments, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery concerns to stakeholders and leadership.
- Maintain project documentation, decision logs, and action-item tracking.
- Provide leadership and partner project managers with a consolidated view of project status, readiness, and implementation progress across participating EDAS teams.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Information Systems, Technology, Project Management, Analytics, Finance, or a related discipline.
- Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
- 8+ years of Project Management, Technology Delivery, PMO, or related experience.
- Banking or Financial Services experience supporting technology, data, analytics, governance, regulatory, risk, or modernization initiatives.
- Experience leading data-related projects involving Data Warehousing, Data Integration, ETL, Data Governance, Data Management, Analytics, Reporting, Regulatory Data, or Data Modernization initiatives.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects within large enterprise environments.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and stakeholder groups.
- Strong hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence as primary tools for project execution, delivery tracking, reporting, documentation, and collaboration.
- Experience creating project plans, dashboards, RAID logs, executive reporting, and project documentation.
- Experience supporting Kanban, Waterfall, Agile, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Strong project planning, organization, and execution skills.
- Exceptional follow-up, accountability management, and stakeholder coordination capabilities.
- Advanced proficiency with Jira and Confluence, including Jira boards, Kanban boards, dashboards, delivery metrics, and project documentation.
- Understanding of Data Management, Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Lineage, Metadata Management, and Critical Data Elements (CDEs).
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
- PMP certification preferred.
- Scrum Master certification beneficial but not required.
- Experience supporting Enterprise Data & Analytics organizations.
- Experience with Alation, GCP, BigQuery, or similar enterprise data platforms.
- Experience supporting large-scale modernization or transformation initiatives.
- Projects remain organized, visible, and progressing toward key milestones.
- Commitments and action items are consistently completed on time.
- Risks, issues, and dependencies are identified early and proactively managed.
- Cross-team activities are coordinated effectively across EDAS workstreams.
- EDAS deliverables remain aligned with broader project objectives, timelines, and implementation plans.
- Partner project managers have clear visibility into data-related risks, dependencies, milestones, and readiness activities.
- Jira and Confluence remain accurate sources of truth for project execution and reporting.
- Leadership receives clear, timely, and actionable project updates.
- Successful candidates are highly organized, execution-focused, and comfortable managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
- They enjoy bringing structure to complex initiatives, driving accountability, coordinating across diverse teams, and ensuring commitments are completed on time.
- They are proactive communicators who can quickly identify risks, remove obstacles, and keep stakeholders informed.
- They thrive in environments that require constant coordination across teams, strong follow-through, and disciplined execution.
- This position offers the opportunity to work across a broad portfolio of enterprise data initiatives while building relationships with leaders and subject matter experts throughout EDAS and the broader organization.
- Execution-focused Project Manager with experience leading data-related initiatives.
- Background in Banking or Financial Services; with familiarity of lending, collateral management, and regulatory reporting.
- Expert user of Jira and Confluence.
- Comfortable operating within a matrixed delivery model where broader initiatives are led by business and technology project managers, while coordinating EDAS-owned workstreams.
- Skilled at managing risks, dependencies, action items, stakeholder communications, and cross-team coordination.
- Familiar with Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, and Data Lineage concepts.
Why Should You Apply?
- Health Benefits
- Referral Program
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
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