Senior Project / Program Manager @ Houston, TX Onsite

Job Title : Senior Project / Program Manager

Location : Houston, TX Onsite

Duration : Long Term Contract

Mandatory skills*

• Project/Program Management; Enterprise IT Delivery; Stakeholder Management; Project Governance; RAID Management; Risk & Issue Management; Executive Reporting; Vendor Management; Global Delivery; Program Recovery; Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid Delivery

Desired skills*

• Project and program management; end-to-end IT delivery; governance and executive reporting; scope, schedule, and budget management; RAID management; stakeholder management; vendor management; global delivery management; risk and issue management; escalation management; program recovery; communication and problem-solving skills
• PMP/PgMP/PRINCE2; Agile/SAFe/Scrum; Enterprise Transformation; System Implementation & Migration; Business Readiness & Change Management

Domain

• Oil and Gas

Job Description*

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage end-to-end delivery of complex IT projects and programs, ensuring successful outcomes across scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, and dependencies.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, delivery milestones, resource plans, and tracking mechanisms to ensure disciplined execution.
• Manage cross-functional teams spanning business, technology, vendors, partners, and global delivery organizations.
• Establish and drive project governance, including steering committee reporting, status reviews, RAID management, decision tracking, and escalation processes.
• Engage senior business and technology stakeholders to establish alignment, facilitate decisions, resolve issues, and maintain transparency on delivery status.
• Manage complex enterprise implementations, migrations, transitions, and transformation initiatives from planning through implementation and stabilization.
• Proactively identify delivery risks and dependencies and implement mitigation and corrective-action plans.
• Lead recovery and re-baselining of at-risk initiatives, establishing clear ownership, milestones, and executive visibility.
• Apply Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies based on the nature and requirements of the initiative.
• Drive successful transition to business and/or operations teams, ensuring appropriate documentation, knowledge transfer, readiness, and post-implementation stabilization.

Required Expertise

• 15+ years of overall IT experience with significant responsibility in Project and/or Program Management.
• Proven experience delivering large, complex enterprise technology initiatives involving multiple teams, workstreams, and vendors.
• Strong experience managing enterprise implementations, migrations, technology transitions, and/or transformation programs.
• Experience working within global delivery models and coordinating geographically distributed teams.
• Strong understanding of project governance, integrated planning, RAID management, financial tracking, resource management, and executive reporting.
• Demonstrated experience managing senior business and technology stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• PMP or equivalent Project Management certification preferred.
• Experience with Agile and/or SAFe delivery environments desirable.

Must Have Capabilities

• Strong project and program management discipline with the ability to manage complex initiatives from initiation through successful implementation and stabilization.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including the ability to engage senior executives, business leaders, technology teams, and external vendors.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills:
• Able to translate complex delivery issues into clear, actionable messages for business and executive stakeholders.
• Comfortable leading governance forums, executive status reviews, workshops, and escalation discussions.
• Concise, credible, and confident in live stakeholder interactions.
• Strong execution discipline with the ability to manage competing priorities, interdependencies, risks, and delivery commitments.
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills and ability to bring structure and clarity to complex or ambiguous situations.
• Proven ability to identify projects at risk, establish corrective-action plans, and drive recovery through to resolution.

Nice to Have

• PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project/program management certification.
• Agile, Scrum, or SAFe certification and practical delivery experience.
• Experience managing large-scale enterprise technology transformation programs.
• Experience leading major system implementations, migrations, transitions, or modernization initiatives.
• Experience managing multiple vendors and delivery partners within a single program.
• Experience working across global teams and multi-region stakeholders.
• Experience supporting organizational change, business readiness, transition, and adoption activities.

Ideal Profile

• A seasoned Project / Program Manager who is:
• Experienced in leading large, complex, multi-team enterprise IT initiatives.
• Equally comfortable managing detailed delivery execution and communicating with senior executives.
• Highly structured and disciplined in governance, planning, risk management, and delivery tracking.
• Collaborative and effective working across business, technology, vendors, and global delivery teams.
• Comfortable taking ownership of challenging or at-risk programs and driving them back to predictable delivery.
• Able to balance hands-on execution with broader program leadership, stakeholder alignment, and business-outcome accountability.

Thanks & Regards

Rakesh Vangala

Team Lead

Burgeon IT Services LLC.

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