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Accelerate possibilities. The WSP Data Center CoE (Center of Excellence) is growing, and we’re looking for smart, responsive, collaborative people to join us. Our CoE is 100% focused on data centers—supporting the world’s leading AI and cloud infrastructure companies. You’ll work to help tackle our clients’ biggest challenges: Where to build? How to secure power and water? How to develop responsibly and become a valued part of the community? AI is transforming life from scientific discoveries to smarter transportation and more sustainable communities. Data centers make it possible.
With us, you can build impact, deliver remarkable projects, and grow your career while shaping the future of the data center industry.
This Opportunity
WSP is currently looking for a Data Center Project Manager, Lead Consultant for our Tempe, AZ office. As a Data Center Project Manager, Lead Consultant with us, you will lead a diverse group of engineers from project initiation through completion with minimal oversight. This includes regular communications and coordination with clients, managing expectations, writing, and managing proposals, creating change orders, composing budgets, invoicing and project closeout.
Your Impact
- Lead multi-disciplinary teams of Engineers, Designers and other staff through completion of multiple simultaneous projects ranging from small to large with a wide range of complexities and requirements
- Independently prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval
- Lead and initiate regular communications with clients regarding project status and project quality, and proactively resolve issues
- Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, regulatory authorities and technical agencies, and the public. This involves keeping the stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables, and meet the project schedule
- Address change management matters promptly and professionally with clients and internal departments
- Maintain awareness of project budget maintenance, key performance indicators and forecasting
- Lead and manage business development initiatives including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals
- Compile a comprehensive and realistic scope of work, and prepare a complete and accurate fee estimate, in a format suitable for obtaining the required management approvals
- As Team Leader, provide mentoring, assistance, encouragement and motivation to team members and junior Project Managers
- Provide strong administrative and technical leadership for the project and maintain all project records and monitor correspondence
- Schedule and facilitate all project meetings required to successfully coordinate work activity
- Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned. Have thorough knowledge of the company's contracts and understanding of all parties involved.
- Implement and manage the kW Quality Control Plan for each project
- Proactively track and report workload management throughout the project
- Manage client and subconsultant invoicing
Who You Are
The ideal candidate has experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in an engineering consulting environment. Candidate thrives in an extremely fast-paced and ever-changing environment requiring flexibility, pivoting, and an open-minded approach and has experience working in a client-facing role requiring extensive communication and knowledge of costing, budgets, and scheduling and/or resourcing.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- 7+ years of experience in Project and/or Program Management and experience on large, engineering and/or construction projects
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of project professionals; concurrently managing issues, scope and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience making presentations to senior management
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience
- Clear, concise, and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and staff
- Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision-making skills
- Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change
- Experience negotiating contract terms
- Proficiency with computer office productivity (i.e., MS Office) and project management software tools
- Detail oriented with ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Familiarity reading drawings and specifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Project or Program Management Professional certification (i.e., PMP)
- Experience in an engineering consulting environment
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management Experience in project planning, cost management and schedule management, and methods of analyzing and reporting project performance on financial and other KPIs
#LI-GA1
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
www.wsp.com
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
Accelerate possibilities. The WSP Data Center CoE (Center of Excellence) is growing, and we’re looking for smart, responsive, collaborative people to join us. Our CoE is 100% focused on data centers—supporting the world’s leading AI and cloud infrastructure companies. You’ll work to help tackle our clients’ biggest challenges: Where to build? How to secure power and water? How to develop responsibly and become a valued part of the community? AI is transforming life from scientific discoveries to smarter transportation and more sustainable communities. Data centers make it possible.
With us, you can build impact, deliver remarkable projects, and grow your career while shaping the future of the data center industry.
This Opportunity
WSP is currently looking for a Data Center Project Manager, Lead Consultant for our Tempe, AZ office. As a Data Center Project Manager, Lead Consultant with us, you will lead a diverse group of engineers from project initiation through completion with minimal oversight. This includes regular communications and coordination with clients, managing expectations, writing, and managing proposals, creating change orders, composing budgets, invoicing and project closeout.
Your Impact
- Lead multi-disciplinary teams of Engineers, Designers and other staff through completion of multiple simultaneous projects ranging from small to large with a wide range of complexities and requirements
- Independently prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval
- Lead and initiate regular communications with clients regarding project status and project quality, and proactively resolve issues
- Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, regulatory authorities and technical agencies, and the public. This involves keeping the stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables, and meet the project schedule
- Address change management matters promptly and professionally with clients and internal departments
- Maintain awareness of project budget maintenance, key performance indicators and forecasting
- Lead and manage business development initiatives including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals
- Compile a comprehensive and realistic scope of work, and prepare a complete and accurate fee estimate, in a format suitable for obtaining the required management approvals
- As Team Leader, provide mentoring, assistance, encouragement and motivation to team members and junior Project Managers
- Provide strong administrative and technical leadership for the project and maintain all project records and monitor correspondence
- Schedule and facilitate all project meetings required to successfully coordinate work activity
- Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned. Have thorough knowledge of the company's contracts and understanding of all parties involved.
- Implement and manage the kW Quality Control Plan for each project
- Proactively track and report workload management throughout the project
- Manage client and subconsultant invoicing
Who You Are
The ideal candidate has experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in an engineering consulting environment. Candidate thrives in an extremely fast-paced and ever-changing environment requiring flexibility, pivoting, and an open-minded approach and has experience working in a client-facing role requiring extensive communication and knowledge of costing, budgets, and scheduling and/or resourcing.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- 7+ years of experience in Project and/or Program Management and experience on large, engineering and/or construction projects
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of project professionals; concurrently managing issues, scope and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience making presentations to senior management
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience
- Clear, concise, and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and staff
- Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision-making skills
- Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change
- Experience negotiating contract terms
- Proficiency with computer office productivity (i.e., MS Office) and project management software tools
- Detail oriented with ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Familiarity reading drawings and specifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Project or Program Management Professional certification (i.e., PMP)
- Experience in an engineering consulting environment
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management Experience in project planning, cost management and schedule management, and methods of analyzing and reporting project performance on financial and other KPIs
#LI-GA1
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
www.wsp.com
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
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Who's Hiring
- Turner & Townsend Pty Limited65
- Convergint24
- Colliers Engineering & Design24
- Gilbane22
- Amazon21
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services27
- Construction & Real Estate16
- Technology & Software11
- Energy6
- Healthcare & Medical Services6
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in data project manager jobs.
- Three or more years of project management experience in data, analytics, or engineering environments
- Proficiency with Agile or Scrum frameworks and tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams including data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders
- PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent project management certification strongly preferred
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business, or a related field
Tips for Your Data Project Manager Job Search
Tailor your resume to data delivery
Hiring managers for this role scan for evidence you've shipped data products on time and within scope. Quantify delivered outcomes like pipeline migrations, dashboard rollouts, or governance programs rather than listing tools you've used.
Highlight your data stack fluency
Mention the specific platforms and warehouses you've coordinated work around, such as Snowflake, Databricks, or dbt. Employers want to know you can run standups, manage dependencies, and unblock engineers without needing a technical translator.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists data project manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by methodology and domain
Filter openings by whether they call for Agile, Scrum, or waterfall delivery and by domain, such as data engineering, BI, or data science. A role managing an analytics team runs very differently from one overseeing infrastructure migrations.
Prepare a cross-functional stakeholder story
Interviewers for this role almost always ask how you've aligned data engineers, analysts, and business owners on a single initiative. Practice a concise example that shows you managed competing priorities without losing either technical credibility or executive trust.
Negotiate scope and resourcing at offer stage
Before accepting, ask how many concurrent initiatives you'd own, the size of the data team you'd coordinate, and whether the role has budget authority. These details define your workload and your ability to actually deliver, so clarify them before you sign.
Data Project Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most data project managers?
The companies hiring the most data project managers right now include Turner & Townsend Pty Limited, Convergint, and Colliers Engineering & Design, with the largest share of openings in Texas, Virginia, and Ohio, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Financial services, healthcare systems, and large technology firms consistently post the highest volume of these roles.
How many data project manager jobs are remote?
About 49% of data project manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for distributed delivery leadership. Roles focused on analytics reporting, data governance program management, and BI platform oversight tend to have the highest remote availability, while roles tied to on-premise infrastructure or regulated data environments are more likely to require on-site presence.
How do you become a data project manager?
Start by building hands-on experience either as a data analyst, business analyst, or junior project coordinator on a data-adjacent team. From there, formalize your delivery skills with a project management certification, then take on ownership of a data initiative end to end. Demonstrating that you can manage a data pipeline launch or a warehouse migration, not just track tasks, is what moves candidates into this title.
Can you get a data project manager job without direct experience in the role?
Yes, candidates transition into this role from adjacent backgrounds like business analysis, data analytics, and technical program coordination. The clearest path in is to document a project you led or co-led that involved data deliverables, stakeholder alignment, and a defined timeline. Certifications like PMP or PMI-ACP help signal readiness to employers when your title hasn't yet caught up to the work you've been doing.
What does the data project manager interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four rounds: an initial recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on your delivery background, a technical or behavioral panel with data engineers or analytics leads, and sometimes a final presentation round where you walk through a past project. Expect detailed questions about how you handled scope changes, unblocked technical teams, and communicated progress to non-technical stakeholders.
Where can I find and apply to data project manager jobs?
You can find and apply to data project manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level, industry background, and preferred work arrangement, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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