Senior Technical Project Manager – Data Delivery

Location: Remote, United States | Central Time Zone / Midwest preferred

Employment Type: Full-Time

Reports To: Senior Executive

About the Company: -Our client is an established North American media and advertising company helping local businesses connect with their communities through community publications, targeted digital advertising, and online presence and reputation management. Its integrated marketing solutions bring together print, digital, and technology-enabled tools to strengthen local business visibility.

About the Role: -We are seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager (TPM) to drive execution of our client’s Data team roadmap. This role requires someone who turns priorities into actionable plans, challenges assumptions, holds teams accountable, and delivers measurable results. You will partner with experienced data engineers, architects, and technical leads to ensure work is realistically scoped, planned, and delivered. You must understand technical delivery well enough to question estimates, uncover dependencies, identify weak planning, and address slippage early. Architecture, design, and implementation decisions remain with engineering. Your responsibility is to ensure clear planning, disciplined execution, and accountability for delivery. The ideal candidate is assertive, persistent, exceptionally organized, and professionally diplomatic, someone who earns engineers’ respect while keeping commitments and outcomes in focus.

Key Responsibilities: -Own roadmap execution: Translate priorities into actionable plans with clear deliverables, milestones, owners, dependencies, and deadlines. Challenge estimates: Evaluate effort sizing, timelines, assumptions, and dependencies with technical leads to ensure commitments are defensible. Drive accountability: Hold teams to agreed commitments, identify slippage early, and drive corrective action. Ensure measurable progress: Track completed deliverables against milestones, distinguishing delivered outcomes from activity and work in progress. Manage execution: Proactively address blockers, coordinate dependencies, control scope changes, and escalate delivery risks. Establish delivery discipline: Maintain effective project plans, tracking mechanisms, and delivery metrics without unnecessary bureaucracy. Engage senior leadership: Provide concise, transparent reporting on progress, risks, and decisions requiring executive attention, without requiring constant executive intervention. Respect technical ownership: Facilitate timely decisions by engineering and architecture leads and incorporate those decisions into delivery plans.

Required Qualifications: 7+ years of project management experience, including significant responsibility for technical or engineering delivery. Experience managing data engineering, data platforms, analytics, or software engineering projects. Proven ability to drive accountability and improve delivery predictability across technical teams. Strong technical fluency to constructively challenge engineering estimates, timelines, scope assumptions, and dependencies. Excellent project planning, organization, dependency management, and risk management skills. Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum and tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or Microsoft Project. Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills. Ability to work during U.S. Central Time business hours.

Preferred Qualifications: PMP certification strongly preferred; comparable project management certifications are valued. Familiarity with data pipelines, ETL/ELT, cloud data platforms, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar technologies. Experience improving execution discipline within technically sophisticated teams. Experience reporting directly to senior executive leadership.

What Success Looks Like: Predictable roadmap delivery with clear ownership and measurable milestones. Well-founded estimates, transparent commitments, and fewer unexpected delays. Stronger execution discipline and accountability across the Data team. Clear, factual reporting that gives leadership confidence in delivery progress. If you know how to challenge assumptions, maintain accountability, and turn technical roadmaps into delivered outcomes while earning the respect of engineering teams, we’d like to hear from you.