Project Manager

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide the Platform Engineering team with general project management support for various internal Digital initiatives and external requests.
• Coordinate and manage a portfolio of Platform Engineering team initiatives, including platform modernization, application decommissioning, operational improvements, risk remediation, security initiatives, and strategic technology efforts.
• Partner with engineering leaders, architects, product teams, risk, compliance, security, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment, visibility, and timely execution of priorities.
• Lead planning, tracking, and coordination activities for decommissioning initiatives, including dependency management, stakeholder communication, risk identification, milestone tracking, and status reporting.
• Represent Platform Engineering in enterprise governance forums, risk and security reviews, compliance discussions, operational readiness meetings, and other cross-functional engagements.
• Facilitate prioritization discussions across operational, strategic, compliance, and modernization initiatives to ensure alignment with organizational objectives and resource capacity.
• Maintain visibility into team commitments, risks, dependencies, and competing priorities, escalating issues, and recommending mitigation strategies as appropriate.
• Drive meeting coordination, action item management, decision tracking, and follow-up activities to ensure accountability and progress across initiatives.
• Develop executive-ready communications, status updates, dashboards, briefings, and reporting materials for leadership and stakeholders. May also assist the Platform Engineering leadership team in developing briefings that showcase team capabilities and contributions to the larger organization.
• Coordinate intake, assessment, and tracking of ad hoc requests impacting Platform Engineering, ensuring work is prioritized and aligned with business objectives.
• Monitor initiative health, project milestones, and key deliverables to ensure successful execution and timely completion.
• Collaborate with vendors and external partners as needed to support platform initiatives and operational objectives.
• Support annual planning, roadmap development, capacity planning, and cross-team dependency management.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, governance, reporting, and operational effectiveness across the Platform Engineering organization and work with teams to address gaps.
• Serve as a trusted partner to Platform Engineering leadership, enabling technical leaders to focus on architecture, engineering, delivery, innovation, and talent development.