Project Manager - Data

Orion Group

Role Overview

Lead the planning and delivery of data, analytics, BI, data management, and AI projects across multi-year, enterprise programs with multiple releases and workstreams. Own scope, governance, risk/issue management, stakeholder communications, and ensure delivery against time, budget, and quality with a customer-experience focus.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end delivery for analytics/BI/data/AI projects (initiation to handover/support).
• Build and own WBS, integrated plan, risks/issues logs; report to executives bi-weekly.
• Coordinate multiple vendors and internal teams (requirements ingestion modeling pipelines visualization).
• Orchestrate cross-functional teams (product owners, data engineering, security, analytics, QA, data science).
• Own/manage product backlog for Data Engineering & Visualization; maintain clear tickets and linkages.
• Secure deliverable acceptance; lead lessons learned; drive continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies (planning/review/retro/stand-ups); administer Jira boards; act as first risk escalation point.
• Support BA/DA/test planning/UAT as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Business Administration, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or related.
• PMP and/or Scrum Master certification (required).
• 5+ years delivering data/analytics/BI projects, including 2+ years in a project management role.
• Excellent customer-facing communication; strong facilitation, change management, conflict resolution, and presentation skills.
• Bilingual (Arabic & English) with excellent command of English.

Must Have:

• Experience delivering cloud-based data analytics, Business Intelligence, and Modern Data Platform solutions.
• Previous experience working for a major system integrator or consultancy.
• Minimum experience delivering two data analytics projects end-to-end in the capacity of Project Manager.
• Prior hands-on technical experience in data modeling, data visualization, reporting, and building data solutions.