The Senior Technical Project Manager – Enterprise Technology & Systems Delivery is a project delivery leader within the PMO organization responsible for managing technology programs and enterprise transformation initiatives across multiple workstreams. This role drives delivery from initiation through go-live and stabilization, ensuring tight schedule management, strong cross-functional coordination, proactive risk and issue escalation, and disciplined governance throughout the project lifecycle.
The role requires someone who can understand technical concepts, dependencies, and delivery risks well enough to coordinate effectively across engineering, infrastructure, integration, data, and testing teams, but who is not expected to serve as the hands-on technical lead or provide technical solution ownership. Success is defined by on-time execution, stakeholder alignment, effective governance, and sustainable adoption of technology-enabled change.
What you'll do:
- Lead end-to-end project management for technology implementations, platform migrations, system integrations, and transformation initiatives from charter through go-live and hypercare.
- Manage multiple concurrent workstreams, integrating business, engineering, infrastructure, data, testing, and change activities into a single executable project plan.
- Build and maintain detailed schedules, milestone plans, RAID logs, dependency trackers, RACI matrices, and status reporting.
- Coordinate closely with business stakeholders, IT and engineering teams, systems integrators, and vendor partners to ensure alignment on scope, timing, deliverables, and decisions.
- Facilitate planning, requirements, design, and workstream checkpoint sessions with technical leads and business process owners.
- Support governance routines, including workstream meetings, status reviews, and escalation paths; help prepare materials for steering committees and leadership updates.
- Identify, track, and escalate risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies through the project governance structure with urgency and clarity.
- Ensure the project schedule is actively managed and tightly driven, including follow-up on overdue actions, management of critical path items, and resolution of cross-workstream blockers.
- Coordinate technical and non-technical delivery activities across integrations, infrastructure, data migration, testing, cutover, and deployment, without acting as the technical authority for solution design.
- Support budget tracking, forecast updates, and variance reporting where applicable.
- Lead preparation for SIT, UAT, cutover, and go-live readiness activities in partnership with the appropriate SMEs and delivery leads.
- Support organizational change management, communications, training coordination, and adoption planning with business and OCM partners.
- Track vendor and systems integrator delivery performance against plans and milestones.
- Prepare clear status updates, decision summaries, and risk reports for project leadership.
Required qualifications:
- 3+ years of project management experience, including 2+ years leading technology implementation or integration projects.
- Demonstrated experience managing technical programs (e.g., software platform implementations, infrastructure or cloud migrations, system integrations, or enterprise application rollouts).
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously while maintaining a tightly controlled integrated schedule and clear accountability across teams.
- Solid understanding of technology delivery lifecycles, including planning, design, build, test, data migration, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.
- Ability to understand technical concepts, integration dependencies, environment readiness, data migration risks, and testing implications sufficiently to coordinate teams and drive delivery, without being the primary technical resource.
- Strong command of project management fundamentals including scope management, schedule management, RAID management, dependency tracking, status reporting, and governance.
- Experience working with stakeholders across business, IT, and vendor organizations.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and organizational skills, with the ability to drive action and elevate issues clearly and promptly.
- CAPM, PMP, or equivalent certification is a plus.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience within a PMO or technology delivery team supporting cross-functional programs.
- Experience managing technical workstreams across domains such as cloud infrastructure, data & analytics, DevOps/engineering, cybersecurity, or digital/customer platforms.
- Background in technology transformation, including migration from legacy platforms and coordination of business process change.
- Exposure to enterprise governance practices, such as steering committee reporting and structured escalation management.
- Familiarity with organizational change management frameworks and enterprise adoption planning.
- Prior experience as a business analyst, technical lead, or systems power user is helpful, particularly where that experience improves communication with technical and business teams.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of project management experience
- 2+ years leading technology implementation or integration projects
- Experience managing technical programs such as software platform implementations, infrastructure or cloud migrations, system integrations, or enterprise application rollouts
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and maintain an integrated schedule
- Understanding of technology delivery lifecycles, including planning, design, build, testing, data migration, cutover, go-live, and stabilization
- Ability to understand technical concepts, integration dependencies, environment readiness, data migration risks, and testing implications
- Strong project management fundamentals, including scope, schedule, RAID, dependency tracking, status reporting, and governance
- Experience working with business, IT, and vendor stakeholders
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and organizational skills
- CAPM, PMP, or equivalent certification
- Experience within a PMO or technology delivery team
- Experience managing workstreams across cloud infrastructure, data and analytics, DevOps, cybersecurity, or digital platforms
- Background in technology transformation and legacy platform migration
- Exposure to enterprise governance, steering committee reporting, and structured escalation management
- Familiarity with organizational change management frameworks and enterprise adoption planning
- Prior experience as a business analyst, technical lead, or systems power user
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Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials highlight comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with mental-health support and an EAP. Third-party benefits summaries also portray health coverage as a strong component of the package.
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Retirement Support — Offerings include a 401(k) with employer matching, cited on the careers page and independent benefits directories. Multiple sources indicate a match exists, though exact formulas have varied over time and warrant confirmation.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Company communications describe equity for all full-time hires and stock benefits as part of total rewards. Independent listings also note company equity/RSUs as a standard element.
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What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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