Lead Technical Project Manager HQ

Division: Headquarters

Project Location(s): New York, NY 10001 USA

Travel Involved: 0-10%

Job Type: Regular

Job Classification: Experienced

Education: Bachelors Degree

Job Family: Information Services

Compensation: Salaried Exempt

Location: Position can be performed from any U.S. company office, with opportunity for office and remote work.

The IS Lead Technical Project Manager HQ leads complex, cross-functional technology projects and coordinated programs involving multiple business functions, technical teams, vendors, systems, and dependencies. This role is responsible for direct project delivery while also supporting technology road mapping, project intake, prioritization, resource planning, and portfolio coordination. The position provides functional leadership to other project-management resources through mentoring, work review, coaching, and improvement of project-delivery practices.

The role is intended to provide a development path into formal project-management leadership and, over time, a Manager or Director-level technology delivery position.

• Lead
  complex technology projects and coordinated programs from initiation
  through implementation, stabilization, and transition to operational
  support.
• Develop
  integrated plans covering scope, schedule, budget, resources, technical
  dependencies, vendors, testing, training, implementation, and
  organizational readiness.
• Coordinate
  delivery across enterprise applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity,
  data, integrations, service delivery, construction technology, and
  business teams.
• Identify
  technical, operational, resource, and organizational risks and drive
  timely mitigation, escalation, and decision-making.
• Lead
  implementation-readiness, cutover-readiness, and post-implementation
  reviews.
• Support
  the development and maintenance of the technology roadmap by identifying
  proposed initiatives, dependencies, timing, resource needs, risks, and
  delivery options.
• Participate
  in project intake, prioritization, annual planning, capacity planning, and
  portfolio-review activities.
• Recommend
  when initiatives should be clarified, phased, combined, rescoped, delayed,
  or escalated for leadership review.
• Lead
  the stabilization or recovery of assigned projects that are materially at
  risk.
• Mentor
  and coach project managers, project coordinators, analysts, and other
  delivery personnel.
• Review
  project plans, schedules, status reports, risk registers, implementation
  plans, and executive communications prepared by less-experienced team
  members.
• Help
  establish and improve project-management standards, templates, governance,
  reporting, and delivery practices.
• Provide
  functional direction to assigned project resources and coordinate work
  across projects with shared teams, vendors, systems, or stakeholders.
• Present
  project health, financial status, risks, decisions, trade-offs, and
  recommendations to business sponsors, IS leadership, and executive
  stakeholders.
• Manage
  vendor deliverables, statements of work, implementation plans, forecasts,
  budgets, and contractual commitments.
• Act as
  a delegate for the IS Project Management Lead during designated project
  reviews, planning sessions, or portfolio meetings.

The IS Lead Technical Project Manager may:

• Establish
  delivery expectations and governance for assigned initiatives.
• Challenge
  unrealistic schedules, budgets, resource assumptions, status assessments,
  and vendor commitments.
• Require
  corrective-action plans for inadequate project controls, reporting, or
  implementation readiness.
• Recommend
  changes to project scope, sequencing, resources, governance, or delivery
  approach.
• Escalate
  unresolved risks and decisions to the appropriate IS or business leader.
• Recommend
  project-management resource assignments and development actions.
• Recommend
  that an initiative be paused or reevaluated when critical sponsorship,
  funding, resources, technical prerequisites, or operational ownership are missing.

Final authority for enterprise strategy, funding, portfolio priorities, organizational structure, and formal personnel actions remains with the appropriate IS and business leaders

• Bachelor's
  degree in information technology, business, engineering, construction management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Ten or
  more years of experience in technology project management, program management, enterprise systems delivery, or technology consulting.
• Demonstrated
  experience leading large, complex,…