Project Manager - Data

You will lead IT and data delivery projects from kickoff through closeout, keeping scope, schedule, budget, and stakeholders aligned the entire way.

• Own the full project lifecycle for one or more IT/data initiatives — planning, execution, monitoring, and closeout — including charter, schedule, budget, and risk register.
• Build and maintain detailed project plans with clear milestones, dependencies, and critical path, and keep them current as reality shifts.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for client stakeholders, running status meetings, steering committee updates, and executive briefings.
• Translate technical work — data pipelines, integrations, migrations, reporting builds — into plain language for non-technical stakeholders, and translate business needs back into requirements the team can act on.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including data engineers, analysts, architects, QA, and business subject matter experts.
• Identify, log, and actively manage risks and issues, escalating early with a recommended path forward rather than just a problem statement.
• Manage scope and change control, documenting requests, assessing impact, and securing approvals before work begins.
• Track budget, burn rate, and resource allocation, and flag variances before they become surprises.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies or hybrid delivery rituals — sprint planning, standups, retrospectives — and adapt the approach to what the client environment can actually sustain.
• Produce clear, consistent project documentation and status reporting that a stakeholder can pick up cold and understand.
• 7+ years of project management experience, with at least 4 years leading data or software delivery projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects involving data platforms, integrations, migrations, analytics, or enterprise applications.
• Strong command of project management fundamentals — scope, schedule, budget, risk, resource, and change management.
• Experience running both agile and waterfall or hybrid delivery models, and the judgment to know which fits a given client.
• Proven ability to manage client and executive stakeholder relationships, including difficult conversations about timeline or scope.
• Hands-on experience with project management tooling such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, MS Project, or comparable platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to move fluidly between technical detail and executive summary.
• Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent professional experience.
• Ability to work on-site or hybrid in the Indianapolis area as client needs require.

• PMP, PgMP, CSM, SAFe, or comparable certification.
• Prior consulting experience delivering for external clients.
• Experience in government, public sector, or healthcare environments
• Familiarity with data warehousing, ETL/ELT, cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), or BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Experience managing vendor relationships or multi-vendor delivery teams.
• Background working within procurement, compliance, or regulatory reporting constraints.

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