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Sr. Project Manager

United StatesRemotecontractVerifiedPosted 10 Aug 2026

💰 $150,000/yr($130,000/yr – $150,000/yr)

About the role

Location: 100% Remote

Initial Duration: 5-Month Contract

Employment Type: W2 Consultant (Paid Weekly through TEKsystems)

TEKsystems is seeking a highly motivated Project Manager to lead the Data & Quality Engineering (QE) Workstream within a strategic Modern Test Environments Program.
This initiative is focused on building scalable database capabilities, automated test data services, and quality engineering solutions that support modern application testing and delivery.
This role is ideal for a technically savvy Project Manager with experience leading database, data platform, test data management, QA/QE, or data warehouse initiatives.
The successful candidate will partner with engineering teams to drive requirements, planning, dependency management, and execution across a complex enterprise transformation program.

Lead project management activities for the Data & Quality Engineering Workstream.
Partner with Database Engineering, Quality Engineering, application teams, and business stakeholders to gather and document requirements.
Coordinate database infrastructure, test data management, and quality engineering initiatives.
Drive planning and implementation of automated test data services and future-state testing capabilities.
Facilitate discovery sessions, technical workshops, and stakeholder meetings.
Identify and manage technical dependencies across data, testing, application, and analytics teams.
Assess impacts to reporting, analytics, and downstream data consumers.
Manage project plans, milestones, risks, issues, and stakeholder communications.
Drive execution and accountability across multiple technical teams and workstreams.
Provide ongoing status reporting, escalation management, and leadership updates.

7+ years of Project Management experience supporting enterprise technology initiatives.
Experience leading projects involving:
- Database Engineering
- Test Data Management
- Quality Engineering (QE) or QA
- Enterprise Testing Platforms
- Data Warehouses or Data Platforms
Strong technical project management skills with the ability to understand:
- Database environments
- Data flows and integrations
- Testing requirements
- Technical dependencies
- SDLC and software testing practices
Experience coordinating software development and engineering teams.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Demonstrated success driving complex programs, decisions, timelines, and deliverables to completion.
Experience managing risks, issues, and dependencies in Agile and hybrid Agile/Waterfall environments.
Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar project management tools.
Test Data Management experience.
Database infrastructure and database engineering project experience.
Quality Engineering (QE), QA, or enterprise testing platform experience.
Experience supporting analytics or data warehouse ecosystems.
Financial services, banking, or credit union experience.
Exposure to Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) initiatives.
Experience supporting enterprise technology transformation programs.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on Project Manager who can confidently work with technical teams, manage competing priorities, and drive execution in an environment with significant complexity and ambiguity.
You should be comfortable influencing stakeholders without direct authority, proactively removing roadblocks, and ensuring projects remain on track from discovery through delivery.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in a highly visible enterprise modernization initiative focused on improving software quality, accelerating delivery, and creating scalable testing capabilities across the organization.
Your work will directly contribute to building the future-state testing and data ecosystem that supports critical business applications.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Seattle, WA.

Pay and Benefits

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