Principal Project Manager

Role overview Lead complex technology programs and strategic client engagements from planning through delivery, helping organizations turn transformation goals into measurable outcomes. The role combines senior program leadership with consulting: advising executives, balancing technical, commercial, and delivery needs, and building the practices and talent that support reliable delivery.

Responsibilities - Set program direction and coordinate connected workstreams, plans, milestones, dependencies, and decisions. - Translate business transformation goals into delivery models, governance, and practical roadmaps. - Advise executive stakeholders on priorities, investment choices, delivery feasibility, and success measures. - Establish reporting and risk practices that make progress, finances, issues, and decisions visible; address threats and agree on mitigations early. - Manage budgets and commercial performance across fixed-price, time-and-materials, and managed-services engagements. - Improve delivery methods, planning standards, tools, and team capability; contribute to proposals and presales.

Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience. - 10+ years leading enterprise technology programs, software initiatives, or digital transformation work. - Experience with cloud transformation, application modernization, microservices, and enterprise platforms. - Strong knowledge of software development lifecycles, DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and operational readiness. - Expertise applying Agile and traditional delivery approaches, with sound judgment about which practices fit. - Proficiency with Azure DevOps and Atlassian project tools; financial forecasting, governance, risk, and dependency management experience. - Strong executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, analysis, and stakeholder influence.

Nice to have Experience establishing delivery centers of excellence or organization-wide frameworks; familiarity with AI-enabled delivery tools, automation, predictive analytics, or global programs.

Benefits and work setup The role is generally remote when client needs allow, with the option to work from home or an office. Listed benefits include flexible scheduling, paid time off, health coverage options, retirement matching, family-forming support, parental leave, education assistance, wellness programs, and sabbatical leave.