Pomeroy is seeking a Technical Project Manager for a 6-month contract with the potential to extend. The role involves leading complex, cross-functional technology initiatives from concept through delivery, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget while aligning with business objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Lead full lifecycle delivery of large-scale, enterprise-level technical projects and programs
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, roadmaps, and resource forecasts
- Coordinate work across engineering, architecture, QA, DevOps, security, support, and business teams
- Ensure all technical requirements, dependencies, and risks are clearly understood and tracked
- Drive timely decision-making and escalate blockers when needed
- Serve as the primary point of contact for project status, risks, and timelines
- Facilitate communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Prepare executive-ready project updates, dashboards, and reporting metrics
- Set clear expectations on deliverables, milestones, and accountability
- Understand system architectures, APIs, integrations, cloud environments, and infrastructure fundamentals to effectively guide conversations and decisions
- Collaborate with engineering leads to translate requirements into actionable technical plans
- Support technical trade-off discussions, feasibility assessments, and solution planning
- Identify project risks, issues, and interdependencies, creating mitigation and contingency plans
- Ensure compliance with IT governance, change management, and security standards
- Implement best practices in project documentation, version control, and release management
- Mentor junior project managers and contribute to PMO standards and methodologies
- Drive process improvements, retrospectives, and best practices across the project lifecycle
- Champion Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid methodologies as appropriate for each initiative
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience considered
- 7+ years of experience managing complex technical projects in enterprise environments
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC), system design, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), and integrations
- Proficiency with project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Smartsheet, Monday.com, or MS Project
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple concurrent projects
- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills
- Experience in DevOps, CI/CD, cloud migration, data engineering, or platform modernization initiatives
- Familiarity with security, compliance, and IT governance frameworks
- Experience working in highly regulated industries (healthcare, finance, retail, etc.)
- May require occasional off-hours availability for production releases or critical incidents
- PMP, Agile, Scrum Master, or SAFe certifications (preferred)