Senior Project Manager

About TQA

Headquartered in Texas, USA, we're an international technology services and consultancy, partnering with enterprises across North America and Europe to deliver next-generation results through emerging technologies.

With delivery centers in Romania, the Philippines, and LATAM and offices in Austin, Alabama, Cardiff, and London, we are expanding rapidly in 2025 and beyond. This is an exciting time to join us as we scale our global presence, innovate with automation, AI, and data, and empower businesses to transform their industries.

At our core, we believe in innovation, impact, and growth-both for our clients and our people. We offer an accelerated career path, giving you the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, develop your expertise, and grow into leadership roles quickly. If you're looking for a fast-paced, dynamic environment where you can make a real impact, this is the place for you.

Position Overview

As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead the delivery of complex projects and strategic programmes across the organization. Collaborating with internal teams and third-party partners, you'll manage initiatives such as large-scale product onboarding, bespoke automation, and technology integrations.

You'll oversee programme-level planning, governance, and reporting-ensuring alignment with business goals, effective risk and resource management, and strong stakeholder engagement. Working across Agile (SCRUM), Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies, you'll apply the right approach to ensure successful delivery.

In addition, you'll maintain financial control across projects and programmes, managing budgets, tracking spend, and ensuring cost-effective execution. As a subject matter expert, you'll provide strategic guidance and drive delivery excellence across multiple workstreams.

Key Responsibilities

1. Programme & Project Governance
   Contribute to the establishment and oversight of governance frameworks, ensuring robust project and programme controls, processes, and reporting are in place and consistently followed.
   Develop and maintain high-quality management information (MI) reporting to track performance, highlight risks, and mitigate scope creep across complex initiatives.
   Define and enforce structured change control processes to effectively manage scope, cost, and timeline adjustments across projects and programmes.
   Provide strategic recommendations for the ongoing enhancement of project management tooling and methodologies aligned with evolving business needs.
2. Programme, Portfolio & Delivery Management
   Oversee the end-to-end delivery of a portfolio of strategic projects within the products division, ensuring alignment with business objectives and resource capacity.
   Lead programme planning, forecasting, and prioritization across multiple concurrent initiatives, leveraging both Agile and Waterfall methodologies where appropriate.
   Ensure consistent execution against Statements of Work (SOW), managing delivery to time, scope, quality, and budget.
   Own financial performance across the portfolio-tracking budgets, controlling costs, and supporting accurate forecasting.
   Drive accountability across delivery teams and ensure risks, issues, and dependencies are effectively managed and escalated where necessary.
   Conduct executive-level project reviews to monitor health, share insights, and align on corrective actions.
3. Client & Stakeholder Management
   Act as a senior point of contact for key internal and external stakeholders, including escalation management for in-flight projects.
   Develop and execute stakeholder engagement plans to build trust, maintain alignment, and ensure client satisfaction throughout the delivery lifecycle.
   Ensure a seamless transition from project implementation to operational handover, preserving continuity and client confidence.
   Represent the project function across senior leadership forums and contribute to strategic decision-making within the broader organisation.
4. Operations & Agile Project Management
   Facilitate Agile ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives, ensuring continuous improvement and delivery velocity.
   Drive operational excellence by ensuring teams adhere to delivery timelines, budgets, and quality standards while fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability.
   Actively contribute to the maturity of internal delivery practices and promote consistency across cross-functional teams.

Required Skills and Experience:

You are a Senior Project Manager with a strong technical background and a proven track record of delivering complex implementation, integration, and automation programmes within fast-paced, high-growth environments. You thrive in dynamic, collaborative settings and are passionate about driving value through structured delivery, strategic oversight, and exceptional stakeholder engagement.

You bring a combination of commercial awareness, delivery discipline, and emotional intelligence, enabling you to lead cross-functional teams and navigate complex stakeholder landscapes with confidence. You take ownership of outcomes and consistently ensure that projects and programmes are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

7+ years of experience in technical project and programme management, leading the delivery of enterprise-level solutions (e.g., automation, integrations, or platform rollouts).

Extensive experience delivering projects using both Agile (SCRUM) and Waterfall methodologies; able to tailor delivery approach based on project context.

Certified in PRINCE2 and/or PMP, with practical experience applying structured governance and project controls.

Strong working knowledge of project management tools, including Jira, Salesforce, Microsoft Project, and related reporting frameworks.

Proven financial management skills-able to baseline budgets, control costs, track financial performance, and ensure profitability.

Exceptional stakeholder management, with the ability to influence and communicate effectively at all levels, including executive and client-facing roles.

Highly self-sufficient, organized, and detail-oriented, with a proactive approach to problem-solving and risk mitigation.

Strong leadership and emotional intelligence, capable of uniting cross-functional teams and driving delivery excellence across varied personalities and disciplines.

Tquila Automation is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome your application and believe in diversity of experience and opinion. Applications will be considered without regard to education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view and believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our growth and success, so we are building a culture where difference is valued.