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Overview

Senior Project Manager (Contract, 6–12 Months) — Lafayette, LA (Hybrid at Corporate HQ)

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.

Nice to Have

• Healthcare industry experience; familiarity with HL7, FHIR, patient data platforms.
• Exposure to Salesforce, Workday, MuleSoft.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Project Management and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development