Sr. Project Manager
Pittsburgh, PA - USA
Job Summary
Key Responsibilities
Program Orchestration & Workflow:
- Workstream Coordination: Directs the daily activities of Business Analysts Data Analysts and Technical Analysts to ensure all project streams remain on schedule and within scope.
- Resource Allocation: Manages team assignments and task distribution to optimize productivity across multi-disciplinary technical and business workstreams.
Traditional Milestone & Deliverable Management:
- Project Scheduling: Develops and maintains detailed project schedules tracking progress against critical path milestones and key deliverables.
- Stage-Gate Governance: Manages the transition between project phases (Initiation Planning Execution and Closure) ensuring all requirements are met before proceeding to the next gate.
- Formal Reporting: Produces comprehensive status reports including RAID logs (Risks Actions Issues and Dependencies) for presentation to executive leadership.
Government & PMO Compliance:
- Regulatory Alignment: Ensures all project activities reporting and documentation meet the specific compliance and transparency standards required for government-facing projects.
- PMI Standard Execution: Operates as a subject matter expert on PMI best practices enforcing standardized project management methodologies across the program.
- Requirements Traceability: Oversees the requirements repository (e.g. Jira/Confluence) maintaining a rigorous Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) that is audit-ready and linked to the program roadmap.
Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Liaison: Acts as the primary point of contact between technical teams and high-level business stakeholders facilitating formal requirements & review meetings.
- Roadblock Escalation: Proactively identifies project bottlenecks and escalates critical risks to the API Technical Lead or senior program leadership.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field
- Senior Consulting Leadership: 10 years of experience leading high-stakes consulting programs and managing large-scale IT or data services projects.
- Professional Certification: Must be PMO or PMI (PMP) certified.
- Government Sector Expertise: Proven experience or deep functional knowledge of navigating government agencies or highly regulated public sector environments.
- Structured Project Management: Demonstrated ability to manage formal project lifecycles Gantt charts and complex dependency mapping.
- Team Leadership: Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams in a high-pressure deliverable-based environment.
- PMO/PMI certified
- 10 years managing consulting programs
- Government experience / knowledge
- Nice to have - finance transformation billing AR collections knowledge
- Finance Transformation Knowledge: Experience in large-scale finance modernization initiatives specifically regarding Billing Accounts Receivable (AR) and Collections.
- Financial Services Background: Prior experience at the intersection of government regulation and financial data integrity.
Required Skills:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field Senior Consulting Leadership: 10 years of experience leading high-stakes consulting programs and managing large-scale IT or data services projects. Professional Certification: Must be PMO or PMI (PMP) certified. Government Sector Expertise: Proven experience or deep functional knowledge of navigating government agencies or highly regulated public sector environments. Structured Project Management: Demonstrated ability to manage formal project lifecycles Gantt charts and complex dependency mapping. Team Leadership: Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams in a high-pressure deliverable-based environment. PMO/PMI certified 10 years managing consulting programs Government experience / knowledge Nice to have - finance transformation billing AR collections knowledge
Required Education:
Bachelors degree in a related field.