Project Manager, IT Project Manager

Technology Services team is integral to maintaining the Firm’s overall technology, mobile and desktop devices, and core infrastructure to ensure reliable, secure and efficient operations. Technology Services is a single global operation with representation in each of the Firm’s offices. Additionally, we have shared service centers in Tampa and Manila, supporting a wide range of technologies and operations. In addition to overseeing critical enterprise systems and providing world‑class client service to our global user community, we are committed to achieving a balance between new and innovative technologies while constantly ensuring data security and compliance with legal and regulatory standards, resulting in realizing value from the latest developments in technology, such as generative artificial intelligence and cloud computing models, while safeguarding sensitive client information against cyber threats and other business interruption events.

Technology Services plays a significant role in supporting the Firm’s systems and people.

The Project Manager is a senior‑level member of the Technology PMO responsible for leading complex, cross‑functional technology initiatives from initiation through implementation and closure. The role manages projects supporting Technology and various business services functions projects, including Finance, AI, Infrastructure, enterprise applications, system upgrades, data initiatives, and system migrations.

The roles and responsibilities of this job include:

• Lead complex technology projects from initiation and planning through execution, implementation, transition, and closure.
• Manage projects supporting business services functions and technology domains, including Finance, AI, Infrastructure, Enterprise systems, Data platforms, System upgrades, and Data or Application migrations.

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering scope, schedules, resources, budgets, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Lead project initiation activities, including development of project charters, delivery approaches, governance structures, and stakeholder plans.
• Manage multiple work streams and ensure dependencies between business, technical, vendor, data, security, and operational activities are understood and coordinated.
• Facilitate project meetings, steering committee discussions, working sessions, risk reviews, and executive status updates.
• Establish delivery baselines and manage changes to project scope, schedule, resources, and budget through appropriate change‑control processes.
• Monitor project performance and take corrective action when delivery is at risk.
• Develop recovery plans for projects experiencing schedule, resource, financial, or delivery challenges.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, decisions, action items, risks, issues, and change records.
• Manage vendor deliverables, contractual milestones, statements of work, invoices, and performance expectations in partnership with Procurement and project sponsors.
• Coordinate testing, implementation, migration, deployment, and stabilization activities as applicable.
• Ensure business readiness, communications, training, support, and adoption requirements are incorporated into project plans.
• Apply Technology PMO standards, methodologies, templates, reporting requirements, and governance processes.
• Use Smartsheet to create and maintain project schedules, dashboards, reports, risk and issue logs, resource views, and stakeholder communications.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of PMO delivery practices, tools, templates, and project management standards.
• Provide guidance and delivery leadership to project team members and less‑experienced project managers when appropriate.
• Clarify how the solution works, what data it uses, where the data flows, how integrations are designed, and what technical dependencies exist.
• Explain risks, options, trade‑offs, and recommendations in a way that supports informed decision‑making.
• Partner with business sponsors and technology leaders to define project objectives, scope, success measures, governance, and…