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Data Project Manager

Job Description - Data Project Manager

Job Description: Data Project Manager

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Data Project Manager to lead and deliver data-driven transformation initiatives for our clients. The successful candidate will combine strong project management expertise with hands-on experience managing data-related projects, cross-functional delivery teams, and senior stakeholders in a consulting or client-facing environment.

The role requires a results-driven professional who can effectively bridge business, technology, and data teams while ensuring successful project delivery, strong governance, and high levels of client satisfaction.



Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end delivery of data and analytics transformation projects.

  • Define project scope, objectives, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and success criteria.

  • Develop and maintain project plans, RAID logs, governance structures, status reports, and delivery documentation.

  • Manage multiple workstreams and coordinate cross-functional teams, including business, data, technology, architecture, and operations stakeholders.

  • Establish effective project governance, reporting, risk management, issue resolution, and change-control processes.

  • Engage with senior client stakeholders to understand business objectives, communicate progress, and manage expectations.

  • Translate business requirements into structured project deliverables and actionable data initiatives.

  • Monitor project progress, budgets, resources, dependencies, quality, and delivery risks.

  • Facilitate project meetings, steering committees, workshops, and stakeholder reviews.

  • Identify delivery challenges proactively and implement appropriate mitigation and recovery plans.

  • Ensure alignment between business outcomes, data strategy, technology delivery, and organizational priorities.

  • Support user acceptance testing, implementation planning, transition activities, and post-go-live reviews.

  • Contribute to project proposals, statements of work, solution presentations, estimates, and client pursuits.

  • Support presales activities, including discovery workshops, proposal development, delivery approach definition, and effort estimation.

  • Promote consistent project management practices, standards, and lessons learned across engagements.

  • Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with organizational processes, quality standards, and client requirements.


Required Qualifications and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.

  • Minimum of 5 years of project management experience.

  • At least 3 years of experience managing data-related, data transformation, analytics, or technology projects.

  • Experience managing projects in a consulting, systems integration, technology services, or client delivery environment.

  • Proven experience managing project governance, stakeholder communication, risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery reporting.

  • Strong experience coordinating multiple workstreams and cross-functional delivery teams.

  • Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and client-facing communication skills.

  • Strong problem-solving, planning, prioritization, and decision-making abilities.

  • Demonstrated ability to manage projects in fast-paced and changing environments.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Previous experience with a Tier 1 technology consulting or professional services firm.

  • Experience delivering projects involving data platforms, data migration, data governance, data quality, business intelligence, reporting, analytics, or cloud data transformation.

  • Experience supporting presales activities, proposal development, statements of work, or client pursuits.

  • Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, hybrid, or scaled delivery methodologies.

  • Professional certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, SAFe, or equivalent.

  • Familiarity with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, or equivalent.

  • Understanding of data governance, data architecture, data privacy, data quality, and analytics delivery concepts.


Core Competencies

  • Data project and program delivery

  • Project planning and governance

  • Stakeholder and client management

  • Cross-functional team leadership

  • Risk, issue, and dependency management

  • Scope, schedule, budget, and resource management

  • Business and data team coordination

  • Consulting and client engagement

  • Problem solving and decision making

  • Executive communication and presentation

  • Presales and proposal support

  • Change management and delivery assurance


Key Deliverables

  • Approved project charter and delivery plan

  • Project schedule, milestones, and workstream plans

  • RAID log and dependency tracker

  • Governance and communication plan

  • Regular project status reports and steering committee updates

  • Risk mitigation and issue-resolution plans

  • Resource and financial tracking reports

  • Workshop and requirements documentation

  • Testing, implementation, and transition plans

  • Project closure report and lessons learned

  • Client-ready proposals, estimates, and delivery approaches where required


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