Senior Project Manager (Calypso)
About the role
Why Join Exadel: We’re an AI-first global tech company with 25+ years of engineering leadership, 2,000+ team members, and 500+ active projects powering Fortune 500 clients, including HBO, Microsoft, Google, and Starbucks. From AI platforms to digital transformation, we partner with enterprise leaders to build what’s next. What powers it all? Our people are ambitious, collaborative, and constantly evolving.
About The Client: A major telecommunications operator providing wireless voice, messaging, and high-speed data services. Through strategic acquisitions, the company has expanded its market presence to serve over a hundred million subscribers. Today, it leverages nationwide 5G coverage and AI-driven customer engagement platforms to deliver scalable, high-performance connectivity.
Exadel Culture: We lead with trust, respect, and purpose. We believe in open dialogue, creative freedom, and mentorship that helps you grow, lead, and make a real difference. Ours is a culture where ideas are challenged, voices are heard, and your impact matters.
Responsibilities
- Lead the complete delivery lifecycle, including requirements validation, solution build, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, mock conversions, cutover, and hypercare
- Develop and maintain the integrated master schedule, work breakdown structure, RACI matrix, delivery milestones, and scope baseline
- Partner with the client’s project management team to manage scope, timelines, resources, dependencies, and deliverables
- Coordinate multidisciplinary technical and functional teams across the Washington, DC headquarters and regional offices
- Lead daily synchronization meetings and provide clear status reporting across System Integrator teams, Adenza, and client stakeholders
- Establish and manage formal defect-triage, prioritization, escalation, and resolution processes using Jira and Xray
- Monitor and enforce P1–P4 defect response and resolution service-level agreements
- Identify, document, and manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies
- Maintain current project status, actions, risks, and decisions within Monday.com and Jira
- Coordinate Azure integration activities and data-migration dress rehearsals
- Support Organizational Change Management activities and technical training plans
- Manage project governance, executive reporting, escalation paths, and cross-party decision-making
- Drive delivery toward the targeted Q3 2028 production go-live and subsequent hypercare period
Requirements
- Extensive, senior-level experience in project management experience leading complex, front-to-back Calypso implementation programs
- Strong understanding of Calypso front-to-back business and technical workflows
- Proven experience managing large-scale financial-services or capital-markets technology implementations
- Experience leading projects across requirements, design, build, testing, conversion, cutover, go-live, and hypercare
- Strong knowledge of System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing processes
- Experience managing data migrations, mock conversions, and production dress rehearsals
- Understanding of Azure integration lifecycles
- Demonstrated expertise in scope, schedule, resource, dependency, risk, and change management
- Experience establishing and maintaining integrated schedules, work breakdown structures, RACI matrices, and scope baselines
- Strong defect-management experience, including triage, severity classification, escalation, and SLA tracking
- Advanced proficiency with Jira, Xray, Monday.com, and Microsoft Project
- PMP or Agile Scrum Master certification
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- Spanish proficiency is considered an asset
Skills
- English level: Advanced
- Spanish proficiency (considered an asset)