Head of PMO

At SunnyData, our mission is to help customers build a highly scalable architecture, robust data engineering pipelines, easy data consumption layers and more importantly build ML and AI applications to power their business and drive outstanding business outcomes. As the Head of PMO, you will lead the PMO office to improve project success, manage resources, and partner with account management and delivery teams for successful project outcomes and align to account goals.

The Impact You Will Have

• Delivery Excellence: Establish and enforce best practices, frameworks and methodologies to improve project delivery quality and efficiency.

• Strategic Alignment: Ensure projects align with account strategy and deliver measurable business outcomes to customers.

• Portfolio Oversight: Provide oversight of multiple project managers and technical project managers to ensure consistent execution and risk management across engagements.

• Operational Efficiency: Identify process gaps and implement improvements to optimize resource allocation, timelines and cost efficiency.

Your Responsibilities:

• Synthesize and align: As a Program Manager and Leader you will translate complex technical discussions into clear decisions and action items, ensuring total alignment between the client and the delivery team.

• Stakeholder Communication: Ensure transparent reporting and communication of project status, risks, and outcomes to senior management and key stakeholders.

• Governance & Standards: Drive adoption of tools, templates, and governance frameworks that improve consistency and reduce delivery risk.

• Bridge the gap: Facilitate seamless collaboration between technical and business stakeholders, ensuring the "what" and "why" are clearly understood by all.

• Proactive risk management: Identify potential blockers early and partner with technical leadership to architect solutions before they impact the timeline.

• Instill agile culture: Promote a culture of continuous improvement by implementing lightweight agile frameworks that foster transparency without adding bureaucracy.

• Innovation Enablement: Collaborate with technical leaders to integrate emerging technologies into delivery approaches.

• Quality & Value Assurance: Champion measurement of project outcomes against KPIs and business value while ensuring each engagement delivers tangible results.

Required Experience

• Leadership: Mentor and develop project managers to foster a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous learning while managing resources

• Technical Environment: Experience driving delivery within data engineering, software development, or consulting teams.

• Client-Facing Agility: Practical experience leading Scrum ceremonies and fostering agile habits in a client-service environment.

• Stakeholder Influence: Strong ability to manage expectations and build trust with both internal technical leads and external client stakeholders.

• Reporting & Communication: Excellent verbal and written skills with the ability to "translate" between business requirements and technical execution while also providing high-level reports to leadership regarding project statuses.

• Critical Thinking: A proactive mindset focused on unblocking the team and solving resource or timeline constraints before they become critical.

Preferred Experience

• 5+ years of experience in a senior level management managing technical project managers & projects specifically within Data Engineering, Analytics, or ML/AI.

• Strong leadership and decision making skills across multiple geographical locations

• Exposure to Databricks ecosystem or similar cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Well-versed in technical acumen; you don't need to write code, but you must be able to follow technical discussions and understand architectural trade-offs.

• Proficiency in project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Asana, Trello.

• Comfort with ambiguity and navigate the fast-paced nature of a growing consulting firm.

• Relevant certifications such as CSM, PSM, or Agile Project Management.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Management, Computer Science, or related field is preferred.

Benefits

• Health Insurance : Employees and their eligible family members including spouses, domestic partners, and children are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.

• Paid Time Off : Start your career at SunnyData with a minimum of 15 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.

• An opportunity to grow your technical and people skills, lead teams on complex customer projects that are highly innovative and cutting edge. Great opportunity to grow in your career with the right level of focus, innovation and customer centricity with a high growth consulting company dedicated to Databricks.

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

SunnyData is dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the world around us. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to unbiased hiring practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Why Join SunnyData?

• Innovative Environment: Work with cutting-edge technologies and industry leaders in data engineering and AI.

• Customer Impact: Make a real difference in how businesses leverage data for strategic decision-making.

• Career Growth: Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Collaborative Culture: Join a supportive team that values collaboration and knowledge sharing.

If you are passionate about data engineering and enjoy engaging with clients to solve their most challenging problems, we would love to hear from you. Apply today and become a key player in SunnyData's success story.