RQ00752 Project ManagerLeader Intermediate

The Technical Project Manager is expected to set direction on delivery challenge assumptions and estimates hold teams and vendors to their commitments unblock dependencies and escalate decisively while respecting clear accountability boundaries. Driving outcomes does not mean performing other teams work it means ensuring that work is defined resourced sequenced completed and verified.

The role is responsible for:

• owning the end-to-end delivery plan and driving the initiative to Iteration 1 production go-live and beyond;
  
• working backwards from the target production date to sequence development and ETL completion integration and configuration UAT/QA TRA and ARB approvals cutover and early-life support
  
• producing and defending realistic evidence-based estimates and challenging optimistic or unsupported timelines wherever they arise;
  
• driving completion of critical milestones across all parties - internal teams vendors and partners not merely reporting on them
  
• ensuring full technical due diligence for responsible adoption: architecture artefacts ARB gates Threat Risk Assessment (TRA) security and privacy assessments and enterprise production-readiness criteria
  
• ensuring the solution meets Enterprise Technology standards policies architectural decisions and data sensitivity requirements
  
• supporting the Data and Analytics team as business owners of the platform while holding the solution to appropriate Security and Technology standards
  
• establishing and enforcing a single authoritative source of truth for requirements and user stories
  
• operationalizing the agreed RACI and guarding accountability boundaries so responsibilities are not silently shifted
  
• leading vendor and partner engagement holding them to scope deliverables and timelines and catching misalignment early
  
• reporting status risk and required decisions honestly and clearly to senior leadership and
  
• driving delivery discussions toward facts and ownership what is missing who owns it when it will be resolved.
  

• Core outcome: a governed production-ready and sustainable Collibra implementation that is delivered through clear technical project management completed due diligence validated readiness and accountable transition to business and operational ownership.
  
  

Requirements

Required Skills

• We are prioritizing candidates with approximately 710 years of directly relevant experience and demonstrated success in the following areas:
  
• 710 years of hands-on technical project management experience leading enterprise technology SaaS data platform or complex system implementation initiatives from planning through production go-live.
  
• Demonstrated ability to work backwards from the target production date to sequence development and ETL completion integration and configuration UAT/QA TRA and ARB approvals cutover and early-life support.
  
• Proven ability to produce and defend realistic evidence-based estimates and to challenge optimistic or unsupported timelines wherever they arise.
  
• Experience implementing or operating Collibra data intelligence metadata management data catalogue data quality lineage or comparable platforms.
  
• Strong understanding of data governance operating models workflows stewardship ownership and decision rights.
  
• Ability to translate business and technical needs into executable project scope requirements milestones dependencies acceptance criteria risks decisions and delivery outcomes.
  
• Experience coordinating SaaS platform configuration integrations testing releases and operational transition.
  
• Strong vendor stakeholder executive communication facilitation dependency management escalation and decision-management skills.
  
• Ability to operate effectively in complex multi-stakeholder regulated environments.
  

Deliverables

• The Technical Project Manager is accountable for tangible delivery outputs that move Collibra from planning and implementation through governed production readiness go-live and early-life support.
  
• Integrated technical project plan milestone roadmap sequencing dependencies critical path cutover approach and early-life support plan.
  
• Requirements traceability delivery backlog acceptance criteria dependency map and validated delivery scope aligned to business and technical readiness.
  
• Implementation plan delivery governance RAID/decision logs and executive reporting.
  
• Configured Collibra operating model workflows roles responsibilities and access model.
  
• Metadata ingestion catalogue glossary lineage data quality and priority-domain onboarding outputs.
  
• Integration specifications testing approach release readiness and production sign-off.
  
• Stakeholder engagement communications training coordination readiness tracking knowledge transfer and transition materials to support adoption and operational handover.
  
• Operational support model support procedures documentation production handover package and post-go-live stabilization tracking.
  

Must Haves:

We are prioritizing candidates with approximately 710 years of directly relevant experience and demonstrated success in the following areas:

• 710 years of hands-on technical project management experience leading enterprise technology SaaS data platform or complex system implementation initiatives from planning through production go-live.
  
• Demonstrated ability to work backwards from the target production date to sequence development and ETL completion integration and configuration UAT/QA TRA and ARB approvals cutover and early-life support.
  
• Proven ability to produce and defend realistic evidence-based estimates and to challenge optimistic or unsupported timelines wherever they arise.
  
• Experience implementing or operating Collibra data intelligence metadata management data catalogue data quality lineage or comparable platforms.