Principal Project Manager

Title: Principal Project Manager Location: Remote - United States

At Ensono, our Purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things!  We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.

We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business. These five traits are the key to achieving our purpose:

Honesty, Reliability, Curiosity, Collaboration, and Passion.

About the role and what you'll be doing: 

As a Principal Project Manager (Consultant) in Delivery Management, you will lead complex programs and strategic client engagements across the full software development lifecycle, helping clients realize sustainable business value from technology investment and transformation.

You will combine program delivery leadership with strong consulting capability, acting as a trusted adviser to senior and C-level client stakeholders. You will shape program vision, balance strategic, commercial, technical and delivery priorities, and bring informed challenge, alternative perspectives and relevant emerging technologies to client conversations, while building long-term relationships founded on delivery excellence, credibility and measurable outcomes.

Within Ensono Digital, you will help define and improve delivery methodology, governance, planning, risk, financial management and tooling. You will strengthen delivery culture, develop talent, steer the Delivery Management competency towards its goals and contribute to business development and presales.

You will be a proactive, commercially aware and influential leader who creates clarity in ambiguity, anticipates systemic challenges and mobilizes teams and stakeholders around successful outcomes.

You will bring extensive experience of leading large, complex and strategically important program, together with the consulting mindset needed to shape client outcomes and organizational capability. 

As a Principal Project Manager you will:

• Lead complex program and interconnected workstreams, establishing clear outcomes, integrated plans, critical paths, dependencies, milestones and decision points.
• Define and evolve delivery methodologies, organizational planning standards and supporting tools, promoting sustainable delivery practices and measurable business outcomes.
• Contribute to business transformation strategies and translate strategic goals into coherent delivery models, governance arrangements and executable roadmaps.
• Influence C-level stakeholders and steering committees to shape program vision, success measures, priorities and investment decisions.
• Develop long-term client engagement strategies, leveraging your extensive delivery experience, market insight and knowledge of relevant emerging technologies to benefit the client and their goals.
• Act as a trusted adviser, balancing client strategy, delivery feasibility, technical context and commercial obligations to support successful project delivery and high-quality client outcomes.
• Define reporting and governance standards, ensuring progress, risks, issues, finances and decisions are visible, actionable and aligned to strategic outcomes.
• Implement best practice RAID management, overseeing portfolio risk, and anticipating structural threats such as budget or resourcing constraints, dependencies and other challenges before they affect delivery.
• Develop contingency strategies and escalate material risks in a way that drives clarity and constructive action without unnecessary alarm.
• Effectively manage program budgets, optimizing spend to maximize profitability and maintaining transparency over program commercials.
• Maintain broad knowledge of Ensono Digital products and services, analyze service interactions at solution-architecture level and connect client needs with appropriate Ensono specialists.
• Lead and coordinate high-quality proposals and presales responses, applying client and competitor insight, challenging assumptions and strengthening mitigations where delivery or commercial risks have not been adequately addressed.
• Contribute to the Delivery Management competency strategy and steer the team towards its goals through knowledge sharing, application of best practices and championing a culture of continuous improvement.
• Encourage professional development and lead mentoring initiatives across Delivery Management.  
• Curiosity and openness to innovation: actively seeking out and experimenting with new platforms, tools, and AI-driven approaches to improve delivery efficiency, team collaboration, and client outcomes.

We want all new Associates to succeed in their roles at Ensono. That's why we've outlined the job requirements below. To be considered for this role, it's important that you meet all Required Qualifications. If you do not meet all of the Preferred Qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience leading enterprise technology delivery programs, software development initiatives, or digital transformation engagements.
• Demonstrated experience delivering cloud transformation, application modernization, microservices, and enterprise platform initiatives.
• Strong understanding of SDLC practices, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, release management, and operational readiness.
• Expertise in Agile as well as more traditional delivery frameworks, and a good understanding of when to leverage practices from each to benefit project delivery.
• Advanced proficiency with Azure DevOps and Atlassian products for project management. Smartsheet proficiency is desired.
• Proven ability to manage project and program budgets, financial forecasting, profitability, and commercial performance.
• Experience managing Fixed Price, Time & Materials, and Managed Services engagements.
• Strong risk management, dependency management, and governance expertise.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders at all organizational levels, including senior executives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a focus on business outcomes.
• Experience leading geographically distributed and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated success creating collaborative team environments and driving accountability for results.
• Ability to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and implement scalable delivery practices.
• Commitment to mentorship, team development, and delivery excellence.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMI PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe, Agile, Scrum Master, or related delivery certifications.
• Experience delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure and other public cloud platforms.
• Experience within consulting, or professional services environments
• Experience supporting pre-sales activities, statement-of-work development, and solution estimation.
• Experience establishing Delivery Management Centers of Excellence or organizational delivery frameworks.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled delivery tools, automation platforms, and predictive delivery analytics.
• Experience managing global delivery programs across multiple regions and time zones.

Why Ensono?

Ensono is a place to make better happen – for our clients and for your career. You can do great things through innovation or collaboration, by learning or volunteering, or to promote diversity and inclusion. You can do great things for your own health or for a healthier planet. Whatever it means to you to do great things we want Ensono to be the place you can do it.

We are a client-facing business, but we do encourage clients to allow us to work remotely most of the time so if you are not required to be on a client site, you can choose to work from home or in our Ensono offices.

Some of our benefits include:

• Unlimited Paid Days Off
• Three health plan options
• 401k with company match
• Eligibility for dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D coverage, and flexible spending accounts
• Family Forming Benefit including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy reimbursement
• Paid childbearing and paternal leave
• Education Reimbursement, Student Loan Assistance or 529 College Funding
• Sabbatical leave
• Wellness program
• Flexible work schedule

As of the date of this posting, a good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this role is $155,000 to $210,000 annually based on a full-time schedule. Please note that placement in the range may vary based on numerous factors including but not limited to skills, experience, internal equity, and business needs. In addition to base salary, other compensation programs, depending on eligibility, include an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, and an equity grant under our Associate Equity Appreciation Program.

Ensono is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to providing equal employment to our Associates and building a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

Pay transparency nondiscrimination statement/posting OFCCP’s pay transparency policy can be found on OFCCP’s website.