About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager who will own the client relationship and keep engagements moving as the single point of contact. This role is critical to ensuring that deliverables are completed successfully and on time. You will serve as the bridge between client stakeholders and our technical team and leadership, ensuring that delivery translates into something clients trust and wish to expand. Working in a lean team, you will enjoy high visibility and the opportunity to make a real impact.
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Key Responsibilities
- Own the client relationship across the engagement lifecycle, serving as the primary point of contact from kickoff through delivery and handover
- Manage scope, timelines, and resourcing across one or more concurrent client engagements
- Handle escalations directly, ensuring alignment between client stakeholders and the internal team when issues arise
- Run approval workflows: scope sign-offs, change requests, milestone acceptance, and deliverable reviews
- Own engagement documentation: SOWs, status reports, meeting notes, decision logs, and delivery artifacts
- Lead steering committee and status meetings, translating technical progress into business language for client leadership
- Track engagement health (budget, burn rate, risks, dependencies) and surface issues before they escalate
- Coordinate across data engineers, platform engineers, and solutions architects to keep delivery on track
- Identify follow-on and expansion opportunities within accounts, collaborating with the team to shape them
Qualifications
Required
- 4+ years in project management, delivery management, or technical project management, ideally in data, cloud, or consulting
- Proven track record managing client-facing technical delivery from scope through acceptance
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to handle escalations and difficult conversations calmly
- Solid understanding of data platform projects and modern data and cloud concepts (coding skills not required, but the ability to speak the language is essential)
- Experience managing scope, budget, timelines, and risk across concurrent engagements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting and disciplined documentation
- Comfortable in a lean, high-ownership team where you wear multiple hats
- Fluent English; Arabic strongly valued for KSA client engagements
Preferred
- Experience delivering Databricks, data platform, or analytics and AI projects
- Familiarity with the Databricks ecosystem (Lakehouse, Unity Catalog, delivery on cloud hyperscalers)
- Consulting background at a data and AI advisory or systems integrator
- PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile/Scrum certification preferred
- Sector exposure in Industrial (Manufacturing & Oil and Gas), Logistics & Transportation, or Insurance
- Presales or account growth experience
If this sounds like the kind of work you want to do, we would like to hear from you. The company is an equal opportunity employer and assesses every application on merit.
