Sr. Privacy Project Manager

About the role

Our client is seeking a Sr. Privacy Project Manager for a long term, multi-year assignment. As a seasoned Sr. "Privacy" Project Manager with experience delivering real-world complex Data & Advanced Analytics projects, the person is expected to plan, execute, and oversee technology and data platform initiatives by coordinating scope, schedule, resources, budget, and deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Ensure projects are delivered in alignment with approved objectives, governance standards, and quality expectations while supporting our client's data, analytics, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Develop, maintain, and manage project plans, schedules, work breakdown structures, and milestone timelines in alignment with approved scope and objectives.
• Coordinate project activities across cross-functional teams to support timely and efficient execution of deliverables throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead projects focused on data privacy compliance and regulatory alignment.
• Drive privacy assessments, security checkpoints, and compliance reviews as part of project delivery.
• Partner with Legal, InfoSec, and Data Governance teams to ensure appropriate handling of PII, sensitive data, and regulated datasets.
• Oversee implementation of privacy controls such as access restrictions, masking, minimization, retention workflows, and audit traceability.
• Ensure that privacy requirements are incorporated into user stories, backlog items, acceptance criteria, and definition of done.
• Facilitate all Agile ceremonies and ensure that both data and privacy requirements are visible, prioritized, and worked through in alignment with sprint goals.
• Partner with Product Owners to maintain dual-focused backlogs that cover feature delivery, data quality enhancements, compliance tasks, and privacy controls.
• Remove blockers—technical, process-related, or privacy-related—to maintain delivery flow.
• Coach teams to improve Agile maturity while maintaining compliance and governance expectations.
• Serve as a central point of coordination between business stakeholders, product owners, technical teams, and leadership.
• Facilitate project meetings, status reviews, and decision forums, ensuring clear, consistent communication of progress, risks, dependencies, and impacts.
• Monitor project scope, schedule, and risk by tracking progress against approved plans and identifying variances.
• Document, manage, and escalate risks, issues, assumptions, and change requests in accordance with established project governance and escalation protocols.
• Track and manage project budgets, forecasts, and resource allocations to ensure alignment with approved funding and staffing plans.
• Support financial reporting, cost monitoring, and resource planning activities in coordination with leadership and finance partners.
• Lead end-to-end planning and delivery of data pipelines, modeling efforts, analytics solutions, dashboards, and data modernization initiatives.
• Coordinate cross-functional work across data engineering, BI, data governance, QA, product, and business groups.
• Ensure strong data governance practices—including metadata accuracy, documentation, lineage, and quality controls—are embedded throughout all projects.
• Manage dependencies across systems and teams to ensure data solutions integrate cleanly and securely.

Minimum Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Minimum Experience

• 7+ years of experience managing projects in technology, data, or digital platform environments that enable large-scale enterprise applications and data platforms.
• Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional teams and delivering projects using structured project management methodologies.

Other Job-Specific Skills

• Knowledge of project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid).
• Experience with project tracking & reporting tools (e.g., MS Project, Jira, Clarity, or similar).
• Strong organizational, risk management, and issue resolution skills.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives with competing priorities.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills suitable for executive and technical audiences.

Typical Key Performance Indicators

• On-time delivery of project milestones and deliverables.
• Adherence to approved scope, schedule, budget, and compliance.
• Accuracy and timeliness of project status reporting.
• Stakeholder satisfaction with project execution and outcomes.
• Effectiveness of risk and issue management.