Senior IT PMO Specialist

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Houston, TX, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Energy
The Role
Lead complex global IT and AI initiatives from initiation through closure, managing scope, schedule, budget, risks, vendors, governance, testing, deployment, adoption, and benefits realization. Partner with executives and cross-functional teams across technology, business, legal, privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance. Establish responsible AI controls, testing, oversight, monitoring, and lifecycle processes. Drive executive reporting, stakeholder engagement, operational transition, and PMO continuous improvement across distributed teams and diverse business functions.
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Job Overview:

The IT PMO Senior AI Project Manager requires 5 to 10 years of PMP PM experience delivering complex initiatives in a large, global organization. The role partners with executive sponsors, business functions, IT, data, cybersecurity, legal, privacy, compliance, procurement, and vendors to deliver secure, scalable solutions across HR, Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering, Fabrication, Construction, Sales, Engineering, Construction, QHSES, and Marine/Vessel operations.


Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

  • Lead projects from initiation through planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, operational transition, benefits realization, and closure.
  • Apply PMI/PMP practices using Waterfall, Agile, or Hybrid delivery methods appropriate to project complexity, risk, and business readiness.
  • Define the charter, scope, requirements, work breakdown structure, schedule, budget, resources, quality, procurement, communications, stakeholder engagement, and benefits plans.
  • Maintain integrated risk, issue, dependency, assumption, decision, and change logs; establish owners, response plans, escalation paths, and timely closure.
  • Lead global, cross-functional teams and coordinate business owners, IT, vendors, managed service providers, and subject-matter experts without relying on direct authority.
  • Establish governance, RACI assignments, steering committees, tollgates, decision rights, and concise executive reporting covering progress, financials, milestones, risks, issues, changes, decisions, and value.
  • Manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, contracts, statements of work, vendor deliverables, and forecasts; analyze variance and implement recovery actions.
  •  Oversee requirements, design, build or configuration, integration, data migration, testing, user acceptance, deployment, cutover, hypercare, operational readiness, knowledge transfer, and support transition.
  • Enforce quality assurance, requirements traceability, acceptance criteria, SDLC compliance, formal change control, and completion of required approvals before release.
  • Lead stakeholder engagement, communications, training, business change, adoption measurement, and resistance management to embed sustainable ways of working.
  • Define and track benefits such as cost savings, productivity, cycle-time reduction, risk reduction, revenue enablement, service improvement, and user adoption; transition ownership to the business.
  • Present technical complexity, delivery choices, risks, investment needs, and recommendations in clear business language to executive and non-technical audiences.
  • For AI initiatives, define the business use case, value hypothesis, target users, process impact, autonomy level, human oversight, acceptable-use boundaries, and measurable success crit
  • Integrate AI governance and Responsible AI reviews into project plans and tollgates, including data, architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, legal, compliance, records, and third-party risk requirements.
  • Manage AI risks involving sensitive data, intellectual property, bias, fairness, transparency, explainability, hallucinations, prompt or model manipulation, security, vendor models, autonomous actions, and regulatory obligations.
  • Coordinate approved data sources, data quality and lineage, model and vendor details, grounding approach, prompts and configurations, evaluation datasets, performance thresholds, traceability, and documented limitations.
  • Plan AI testing for accuracy, relevance, reliability, safety, security, privacy, bias, robustness, adversarial scenarios, fallback behavior, reproducibility, and user acceptance.
  • Ensure human oversight, approvals, segregation of duties, auditability, exception handling, rollback or shutdown procedures, accountable service ownership, monitoring, drift detection, incident response, revalidation, and retirement criteria.
  • Manage AI pilots with time-boxed learning objectives, secure environments, objective go/no-go criteria, production ownership, scaling decisions, and verified value.
  • Drive PMO continuous improvement through lessons learned, reusable standards, delivery metrics, coaching, and governance enhancements.
     
Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, MIS, Engineering, Business, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
  •  Current Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required; Agile, Scrum, SAFe, PRINCE2, change management, cloud, data, cybersecurity, or AI certification preferred.
  • 5 to 10 years of progressively responsible IT PMP project management experience in a large, matrixed, global organization.
  •  Proven delivery of complex, business-facing projects within approved scope, schedule, and budget, with strong quality, adoption, stakeholder satisfaction, and measurable outcomes.
  • Expertise across PMI project management domains, predictive and adaptive delivery, financial management, governance, risk, procurement, vendor management, and executive reporting.
  • Strong leadership, business acumen, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, organization, communication, and influence without authority.
  • Experience across infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, data and analytics, enterprise applications, integrations, workplace technology, software delivery, or IT service management.
  • Experience supporting functions such as HR, Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Sales, Engineering, Construction, QHSES, or Marine/Vessel operations; global energy, EPCI, industrial, or maritime experience preferred.
  • Thorough understanding of SDLC, architecture governance, requirements, testing, release management, operational readiness, data governance, privacy, cybersecurity, compliance, and audit readiness.
  • Experience managing AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, data science, analytics, or other emerging-technology initiatives 
  •  Practical understanding of LLMs, prompts, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, APIs, cloud AI services, data pipelines, AI evaluation, Responsible AI, lifecycle monitoring, licensing, and consumption costs.
  • Ability to challenge unsupported claims, distinguish demonstrations from production-ready capabilities, and require evidence of performance, controls, adoption, scalability, and business value.
  • Ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities and ambiguity, lead globally distributed teams, and make timely, risk-informed recommendations.

Working Conditions:

  • Regular and predictable in-person office attendance is a condition of employment and an essential function of the job.
  • Domestic and international travel may be required, with flexibility to collaborate across time zones and support critical deployments or governance activities outside standard hours.
  • Work may involve virtual, hybrid, office, project-site, manufacturing, and vessel or marine environments, subject to applicable safety and access requirements.

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About Us
Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.
For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, MIS, Engineering, Business, or a related field
  • Current Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
  • 5 to 10 years of progressively responsible IT project management experience in a large, matrixed, global organization
  • Experience delivering complex, business-facing projects within approved scope, schedule, and budget
  • Expertise in PMI project management domains, predictive and adaptive delivery, financial management, governance, risk, procurement, vendor management, and executive reporting
  • Strong leadership, business acumen, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, organization, communication, and influence without authority
  • Experience across infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, data and analytics, enterprise applications, integrations, workplace technology, software delivery, or IT service management
  • Experience supporting business functions such as HR, Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Sales, Engineering, Construction, QHSES, or Marine/Vessel operations
  • Understanding of SDLC, architecture governance, requirements, testing, release management, operational readiness, data governance, privacy, cybersecurity, compliance, and audit readiness
  • Experience managing AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, data science, analytics, or other emerging-technology initiatives
  • Practical understanding of LLMs, prompts, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, APIs, cloud AI services, data pipelines, AI evaluation, Responsible AI, lifecycle monitoring, licensing, and consumption costs
  • Ability to challenge unsupported claims and assess performance, controls, adoption, scalability, and business value
  • Ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities and ambiguity, lead globally distributed teams, and make timely risk-informed recommendations
  • Advanced degree
  • Agile, Scrum, SAFe, PRINCE2, change management, cloud, data, cybersecurity, or AI certification
  • Global energy, EPCI, industrial, or maritime experience
  • Regular and predictable in-person office attendance

McDermott International Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about McDermott International and has not been reviewed or approved by McDermott International.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — U.S. materials cite a minimum of 23 PTO days and 14 paid holidays, indicating a broad leave offering. Paid time off and holidays are positioned as a comparative strength within the package.
  • Parental & Family Support — Company materials indicate paid parental leave, including 10 weeks paid maternity and four weeks paid family bonding. These provisions reinforce support for families during key life events.
  • Strong & Reliable Incentives — Field and offshore roles often include overtime, per diems, and project allowances that can materially increase earnings. These extras are a notable component of total compensation in project-driven roles.

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The Company
HQ: Houston, TX
26,626 Employees

What We Do

McDermott is a premier, fully-integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. Our customers trust our technology-driven approach to design and build infrastructure solutions to responsibly transport and transform oil and gas into the products the world needs today. From concept to commissioning, our expertise and comprehensive solutions deliver certainty, innovation and added value to energy projects around the world. It is called the “One McDermott Way.” Operating in over 54 countries, McDermott’s locally-focused and globally-integrated resources include approximately 40,000 employees, a diversified fleet of specialty marine construction vessels and fabrication facilities around the world. To learn more, visit www.mcdermott.com.

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