Senior Project Manager-Software Implementation

Location: Hybrid Scottsdale, AZ | Direct Hire

About the role

Lead multi-year, multi-million-dollar, enterprise software implementation initiatives as a Senior Project Manager, partnering with cross-functional delivery teams and stakeholders to drive predictable outcomes. This role owns end-to-end planning, execution, and governance across the full delivery lifecycle—ensuring projects land on time, within budget, and to high quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise software implementation projects spanning one or more business units, from initiation through go-live and support
• Build and manage detailed project plans to track scope, schedule, budget, resources, deliverables, and quality milestones
• Manage project scope, schedule, and cost changes using appropriate verification techniques and formal change control
• Implement and enforce change management procedures, including expediting client-approved change orders and maintaining accurate cost/schedule impacts
• Maintain project schedules and budgets, registering proposed changes and updating baselines for approved changes
• Assemble, lead, and develop project teams; oversee performance management decisions throughout the project lifecycle
• Monitor, track, and report project progress across resources and workstreams; identify blockers and drive timely resolution
• Own project financials, including multi-million-dollar budgets, forecasting, and resource allocation
• Facilitate definition of project missions, goals, tasks, service levels, and customer requirements
• Partner with clients and stakeholders to understand needs, set realistic expectations, and actively monitor customer satisfaction
• Participate in design and/or testing phases as needed, including validation activities such as QA, UAT, training, and transition planning
• Apply a defined project management methodology and provide clear oral and written status reporting on plans, risks, issues, and resolutions
• Perform risk management, maintain risk registers, and drive mitigation plans to minimize delivery risk
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives focused on delivery effectiveness and customer satisfaction

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Demonstrable experience in Justice, Public Safety, or Public Sector environments
• Proven ability to manage projects with multi-million-dollar budgets
• Ability to work in the Eastern time zone
• Thorough understanding of project delivery stages and controls, including initiation, discovery (definition/scope/requirements), execute & control (configuration/development, scope management, workplans, resources, deliverables), validation (QA, UAT, training, transition planning), deployment (go-live), and support (hypercare and ongoing maintenance)
• Strong client-facing communication skills, including stakeholder management and expectation-setting
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage deadlines and budget constraints
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Ability to work calmly under pressure, multitask, and prioritize effectively

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps

Pay

Hourly Pay Range $120,000-$150,000

About the company

Delphi-US is a national IT Services firm based in Newport, Rhode Island. Delphi attracts our nation's best and brightest Technical & Professional Talent and positions our nation's finest employers to further their competitive advantages. Delphi's core technical focus includes Data Intelligence Engineering & Analytics, AI/ML Operational Excellence, DevOps & Cloud Computing, Health IT & Life Sciences, and Energy Management/Power Systems; serving domains from sensitive national energy sectors to critical financial services, biomed, life sciences & pharma, major government & municipal institutions, and much of the USA's Fortune 500 corporations.

Delphi Associates are deployed on critical IT Projects where their consultative business acumen, comprehensive technical expertise, and committed service mission drives our client's success. Our proprietary skill-based and cultural matching process results in higher qualified project teams, custom curated for our client's specific technical & functional goals. We are supremely experienced, friendly, professional, and ready to advocate on your behalf. Delphi has an indelible understanding of employer expectations, a track record of project success and we deliver lasting results.