Senior Project Manager - Lafayette, LA
Lafayette, LA
Contracted
Experienced
Senior Project Manager (Contract, 6–12 Months)
Lafayette, LA (Hybrid at Corporate HQ)
About the Role
Seeking a seasoned Senior Project Manager to lead enterprise data initiatives—spanning data platforms, governance, and analytics. You’ll drive programs from inception through delivery, align cross-functional stakeholders, and ensure value realization on a flexible, high-performance, and resilient data platform.
What You’ll Do
What You Bring
Lafayette, LA (Hybrid at Corporate HQ)
About the Role
Seeking a seasoned Senior Project Manager to lead enterprise data initiatives—spanning data platforms, governance, and analytics. You’ll drive programs from inception through delivery, align cross-functional stakeholders, and ensure value realization on a flexible, high-performance, and resilient data platform.
What You’ll Do
- Program & Project Leadership: Own scope, milestones, and delivery for complex data programs; set direction and align to business outcomes.
- Stakeholder Management: Communicate clearly with executives, business leaders, vendors, and technical teams; manage expectations and decisions.
- Resource & Budget Oversight: Allocate skills effectively, track budgets, and address variances to keep projects on time and on target.
- Risk & Issue Management: Identify and mitigate risks, drive contingency plans, and resolve issues quickly.
- Execution & Reporting: Track progress, produce transparent status/risk reports, and run post-implementation reviews for continuous improvement.
- Methodology & Quality: Apply Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid practices; enforce governance, compliance, and QA standards.
- Change Management: Lead scope/control processes and communications to ensure smooth adoption with measurable ROI.
What You Bring
- Experience: 8–10+ years of project management leading large-scale software/data programs; proven on-time, on-budget delivery.
- Data Expertise: 5+ years with data governance (quality, security, privacy) and data platforms (warehouses, data lakes, MDM, cloud).
- Standards/Tools: Strong grasp of analytics & data visualization practices; hands-on with Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid PM toolsets.
- Communication & Leadership: Executive-ready communication, stakeholder influence, and crisp risk/issue navigation.
- Education: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, Informatics, or related field.
- Certifications: PMP required.
- Healthcare industry experience; familiarity with HL7, FHIR, patient data platforms.
- Exposure to Salesforce, Workday, MuleSoft.
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