Data Operations Project Manager (Data Integration Projects)

Location: Mettawa, IL (3 days per week on-site)

Contract: Through December 2025

What are the top 3-5 skills, experience or education required for this position:

• Project Management Expertise: Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver complex projects on time and within scope. This includes proficiency in managing timelines, dependencies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Risk Management and Problem-Solving Skills: Competence in identifying potential risks, developing mitigation plans, and proactively resolving issues to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Data Integration and Database Design Knowledge: Familiarity and experience with data acquisition, integration processes, and database design to effectively anticipate steps and dependencies for data-related projects.
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills: Exceptional ability to facilitate collaboration, lead learning sessions, and produce concise, leadership-ready reports and documentation.
• Continuous Improvement: Experience in conducting retrospectives or similar sessions to identify opportunities for process enhancements, and effectively implementing improvements within a large matrixed organization.

Overview:

• We are seeking a highly skilled Contract Project Manager to support our Data Operations team.
• The ideal candidate will excel at managing timelines and dependencies across both business requirements gathering and technology implementation.
• They will ensure effective collaboration between stakeholders to deliver projects on time, within scope, and within budget while providing appropriate visibility to leadership on project value delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead project planning activities, including defining project scope, goals, deliverables, and timelines.
• Manage project dependencies to ensure seamless integration of business requirements and technical solutions.
• Establish and execute a light process to track data acquisition requests from initial internal client outreach through delivery to consumption environments.
• Coordinate with BTS (Business Technology Solutions) teams to onboard new data, ensuring smooth integration into existing systems and environments.
• Organize and lead Lessons Learned Meetings to reflect on completed project milestones, identifying successes and opportunities for improvement; Translate improvement opportunities into actionable enhancements to operational processes, working with relevant stakeholders to implement changes.
• Create and maintain process documentation to ensure transparency, consistency, and efficiency in project operations.
• Take detailed notes and gather feedback during project status meetings to provide accurate and actionable insights.
• Create leadership-ready, concise summaries of project progress, value delivered, identified risks, and corresponding mitigation strategies.
• Monitor and document project progress in Jira Oboard and in powerpoint deliverables to governance bodies

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Project Manager, preferably in data operations or data integration projects.
• Experience driving complex projects in a large matrixed organization, with demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and build consensus among diverse teams.
• Excellent organizational and multitasking skills, with an ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to facilitate effective collaboration and discussions.
• Ability to create succinct, leadership-quality reports that clearly communicate project status.
• Strong understanding of database design and data integration processes.
• Proficient in project management tools and software (JIRA preferred).
• Experience leading projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Education and Experience:

• 4 years of experience in project management, 2 specifically within the data operations domain.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, Agile Scrum Master) are a plus.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $68.00 - $70.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• Health insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• data operations or data integration projects.: 5 years (Preferred)
• Agile and Waterfall methodologies.: 5 years (Preferred)
• JIRA: 5 years (Preferred)
• Project management: 5 years (Preferred)
• database design and data integration processes.: 5 years (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Lake Forest, IL 60045 (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $68 - $70