About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Onsite Project Manager to lead the day-to-day delivery of a major enterprise Data & Analytics transformation program in KSA. The Project Manager will serve as the primary onsite delivery coordination point, working closely with the client, engagement leadership, architects, data engineering teams, platform teams, business stakeholders, and onsite/offshore delivery teams. This role requires strong experience managing complex data programs with multiple workstreams and dependencies, including data platforms, data engineering, data migration, infrastructure, security, testing, governance, and production readiness.
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Key Responsibilities
Project Delivery
- Manage end-to-end project execution across planning, design, build, testing, deployment, go-live, and hypercare.
- Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, milestones, dependencies, and critical path.
- Track delivery against agreed scope, schedule, and contractual commitments.
- Coordinate multiple technical and functional workstreams across onsite and offshore teams.
- Drive daily execution and proactively address delivery bottlenecks.
Client & Stakeholder Management
- Act as the key onsite coordination point for day-to-day client engagement.
- Build effective working relationships with client business, Data, IT, Infrastructure, Security, and other stakeholders.
- Facilitate project governance meetings, working sessions, and management updates.
- Prepare clear executive-level status reporting highlighting progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, and required actions.
- Escalate critical issues appropriately while maintaining a collaborative client relationship.
Data Program Coordination
- Coordinate activities across Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Migration, Data Governance, Security, Infrastructure, Testing, and Platform teams.
- Manage dependencies related to environments, infrastructure readiness, connectivity, access, source systems, and client-owned activities.
- Coordinate data ingestion, transformation, migration, and testing activities with relevant technical leads.
- Ensure technical decisions and dependencies are translated into clear delivery actions and milestones.
Governance & Controls
- Maintain RAID logs covering risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
- Own project action and decision tracking.
- Manage scope and change requests through established change-control processes.
- Monitor deliverables, acceptance criteria, and client approvals.
- Support SteerCo and senior-management governance with concise and fact-based reporting.
- Ensure appropriate documentation, governance, and audit trail throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Team & Delivery Management
- Coordinate a multi-location team covering onsite, offshore, and specialist resources.
- Work closely with technical leads to ensure resource capacity aligns with the delivery plan.
- Drive accountability for actions, milestones, and deliverables.
- Facilitate effective collaboration between business and technical teams.
- Support resource planning, onboarding, and mobilization where required.
Your Profile
We are looking for a hands-on delivery Project Manager rather than a purely administrative PM. The ideal candidate can operate confidently with senior client stakeholders while remaining close enough to the technical delivery to identify dependencies, challenge plans, and drive issues through to closure. They should be comfortable working in a complex environment where infrastructure readiness, data dependencies, security approvals, multiple vendors, and client-owned actions may directly affect the delivery timeline.
- 10+ years of overall IT/project delivery experience, preferably including complex enterprise transformation programs.
- Strong experience managing Data, Data Platform, Data Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Data Engineering, or Analytics programs.
- Proven track record managing large, multidisciplinary onsite/offshore delivery teams.
- Strong understanding of:
- Data engineering and integration
- Data migration
- Data architecture and modelling
- Data governance and security
- Cloud/on-premise infrastructure dependencies
- Testing, deployment, and production readiness
- Strong project planning, dependency management, RAID management, and change-control capabilities.
- Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Ability to manage technically complex programs without needing to be the solution architect.
- Strong experience producing project plans, management dashboards, SteerCo reporting, and executive status updates.
- Ability to operate effectively in a demanding, client-facing onsite environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous KSA delivery experience, particularly within Banking or Financial Services.
- Experience delivering Data Lakehouse or enterprise data-platform transformations.
- Exposure to technologies such as Cloudera, Databricks, Snowflake, Azure, AWS, GCP, or equivalent enterprise data platforms.
- PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or comparable project/program management certification.
- Familiarity with KSA banking governance and regulatory environments is advantageous.
- Arabic Speaker
What You’ll Love About Working Here
- Exposure to top global companies working with the company.
- Open access to digital learning platforms.
- Active employee networks promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
