Senior Project Manager

Position: Senior Project Manager Palantir Foundry Platform

Location: Downtown, Houston, TX
Work Model: Hybrid (4 days / 1 days)- Onsite 4 days a week-no remote- no exceptions
Type: Contract

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Palantir Foundry initiatives or similar enterprise data and analytics platform implementations, ensuring delivery within scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
• Partner with Product Owners, platform developers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and business stakeholders to define scope, priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans.
• Manage Agile/Hybrid project execution, including backlog planning, sprint coordination, release planning, dependency management, and stakeholder communications.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across Data & Analytics, Enterprise Applications, Cloud, Infrastructure, Integration, Security, and business organizations.
• Support development and implementation of data pipelines, data products, analytics applications, workflows, and operational use cases by coordinating technical and business teams.
• Track project schedules, milestones, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, resource utilization, and delivery metrics through effective project governance.
• Facilitate governance meetings, steering committee reviews, and executive communications to drive decisions and maintain alignment.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, and data governance teams to ensure platform implementations align with enterprise standards and requirements.
• Coordinate testing, UAT, release readiness, production deployments, and post-implementation stabilization activities.
• Manage vendor coordination, resource planning, technical dependencies, and delivery risks across complex data and analytics initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery processes, team collaboration, platform adoption, and Agile execution.
• Build strong relationships with business and technical leadership while providing proactive delivery oversight, issue resolution, and executive-level reporting.

Qualifications

• 5 10+ years of Project/Program Management experience delivering enterprise technology, Data & Analytics, data platform, or digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience managing Palantir Foundry implementations or product teams is highly preferred; candidates with project management experience on similar enterprise data, analytics, AI, or cloud data platforms will also be considered.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data platforms, data engineering, data integration, analytics, cloud technologies, APIs, and data transformation initiatives.
• Proven experience managing Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or Hybrid delivery models, including backlog management, sprint planning, release coordination, and dependency management.
• Proficiency with project management and Agile tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Microsoft Project, and/or Primavera P6, with strong stakeholder and executive communication skills.