IT Project Manager

We are hiring a Project Manager to own delivery of data engineering and AI-native product/engineering programs sponsored by client CTO organizations platform modernization and AI features embedded directly into products.

Key Responsibilities

• Own delivery of CTO-sponsored product and platform engineering programs
• Interface with product engineering leadership, architects, and platform/DevOps teams
• Own release planning and sprint governance across multiple engineering pods
• Manage delivery of AI-native product features — agentification, copilot features, embedded AI
• Track engineering velocity, quality, and technical risk at the program level
• Maintain project plans, timelines, and resource allocation across workstreams
• Track budget vs. actuals and report variances to leadership
• Own the RAID log (risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies) and drive mitigation
• Manage scope changes through formal change control and impact assessment
• Facilitate sprint/iteration ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retros) where applicable

Required Skills

• 10+ years of project management experience, including 5+ years managing data engineering/AI delivery
• Experience working directly with enterprise CTO/product engineering organizations
• Familiarity with the software engineering lifecycle, CI/CD, and cloud-native architectures
• Experience managing delivery of AI-native product features (LLM integration, agentic workflows)
• PMP certification and an Agile/Scrum certification are an added advantage

Non-Negotiables

• Consulting mindset — engages client stakeholders as a trusted advisor, not a scheduler or order-taker
• Can go deep enough into the engineering problem to unblock it, not just track it on a plan
• Fundamentally strong in project management principles — scope, schedule, budget, risk, and governance
• Excellent stakeholder management across technical, business, and executive layers
• PMP and an Agile/Scrum certification (CSM, PMI-ACP, SAFe) are an added advantage, not mandatory