Senior Technical Project Manager (Cloud and Compliance)

What You'll Do

• Work independently and collaboratively with a team to support and deliver assigned cloud design/build and managed operations work activities
• Lead complex technical projects through the full lifecycle with accountability for schedules, scope alignment, dependencies, communications, risks, and issue resolution, budget, staffing, and margins
• Recognize the necessity for implementing change management processes during an active project
• Serve as the main point of contact for our clients and engagement teams
• Collaborate with leadership to develop and refine project management procedures, reporting, and optimization efforts across technical delivery
• Leverage technology, automation, and tooling to improve workflows, visibility, and operational efficiency
• Create or updating training materials, project artifacts, and best practices to help strengthen consistent delivery execution
• Work closely with delivery leadership to achieve utilization, forecasting, and delivery performance targets
• Escalate client and project issues in a timely manner to inform and engage the necessary resources to address issues
• Take the lead in risk reporting and identifying high risk clients, projects, dependencies, and technical delivery concerns for escalation
• Collaborate with delivery leadership, quality management, sales, architects, engineers, and operations teams to drive the best customer experience
• Serve as a subject matter expert on technical project delivery across cloud design/build and M&O engagements
• Leverage understanding of security principles and best practices to balance them with various compliance frameworks, and advise clients accordingly
• Stay informed on industry trends and changes and advising clients accordingly
• Execute and controlling project management work as an individual across assigned client engagements
• Guide projects through proactive risk identification, mitigation planning, dependency management, and issue resolution
• Manage overall project coordination: scheduling, assigning tasks, enabling clear and consistent client communication, and escalating issues when necessary to ensure successful resolution and project completion
• Create and executing project schedules and revising those work plans as appropriate to meet changing client needs, delivery priorities, and technical requirements
• Lead project status meetings to include information regarding schedules, dependencies, technical data requirements, action items, assignments, risks, issues, changes
• Communicate project resources needed and collaborating with teams to assign individual responsibilities across technical and operational workstreams
• Interface with clients through the entire engagement and interacting with numerous levels of client personnel and organizations, including occasional C-suite interaction
• Establish and maintaining positive, collaborative relationships with clients and internal stakeholders

What You'll Bring

• 6+ years of technical project/program management experience
• 5+ years of external client facing experience
• Experience leading cross functional technical projects through the full project lifecycle
• Strong risk management, issue escalation, stakeholder communication, and executive-ready reporting skills
• Consulting or professional services experience, including familiarity with managing cloud or technical projects
• Ability to independently manage complex delivery schedules, dependencies, and multi-workstream coordination
• Understanding of project management best practices and proven success in a professional services, consulting, or technology delivery environment
• Knowledge of frameworks like FedRAMP, FISMA, CMMC, SOC, ISO, HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI, etc.
• Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP platform capabilities and services
• Understanding of SecOps, SOC/NOC, vulnerability management, incident response, disaster recovery, and continuous monitoring
• Understanding of the fundamentals of change management processes & procedures
• Excellent communication skills including executive level communication experience
• Hybrid, Agile, or iterative delivery methodology experience
• Strong presentation, facilitation, and organizational skills
• Experience using technology automations, workflow tools, or AI-enabled approaches as part of process improvement strategies
• Ability to provide mentorship and coaching to help other team members enhance their technical and consulting skills
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Business Administration or related field
• US citizenship (required due to client contractual requirements)

Bonus Points

• Industry certifications such as PMP, CAPM, CSM, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSK, AWS Solutions Architect–Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Cloud-Professional Cloud Architect, GIAC Public Cloud Security, CompTIA Sec+, CompTIA Cloud+
• Cloud-based networking experience with tools like Palo Alto, Cisco ASAv, VPC peering, Transit Gateway, etc.
• Experience with Visio, Jira, Smartsheet, Tableau, or MS Project
• Understanding of encryption technologies (TLS/SSL, encryption, PKI).
• Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, Powershell, Bash
• Understanding of various AI tools and platforms