Senior Project Manager

About the business:LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Government vertical, our solutions assist government agencies and law enforcement to drive insights from complex data sets, improving operation efficiency, increasing program integrity, discovering, and recovering revenue, and making timely and informed decisions to enhance investigations. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below http://risk.lexisnexis.com/governmentAbout the team:Our Government Project Management Office (PMO) is a strategic partner to the business, driving delivery excellence across complex, cross-functional customer engagements and enterprise initiatives. We collaborate closely with Market Planning, Product Management, Engineering, Testing, Legal, SIU, Operations, Sales, and other stakeholders to deliver solutions that align with customer expectations, contractual commitments, compliance requirements, and business objectives. The PMO operates in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment that requires strong communication, operational discipline, accountability, and customer focus. Our team supports high-visibility implementations and strategic initiatives across government, regulated, and customer-facing environments, where successful delivery and client confidence are critical to long-term success.About the role:The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading large, complex projects and strategic initiatives across multiple portfolios, managing cross-functional teams, and ensuring successful delivery of customer and business outcomes. This role requires strong leadership, advanced stakeholder management, executive-level communication skills, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while maintaining structure, accountability, and delivery momentum.The Senior Project Manager serves as a trusted advisor to internal teams and external clients, balancing operational execution with strategic alignment. This individual will build delivery roadmaps, manage integrated schedules, coordinate dependencies across organizations, and provide executive-level reporting on project health, risks, financial impacts, and key decisions.This is a highly customer-facing role that requires professionalism, credibility, and confidence managing complex client relationships, escalations, and high-pressure situations. Experience within Vital Records, government, or highly regulated environments is strongly preferred.Responsibilities: Lead and manage highly complex projects and strategic initiatives across multiple portfolios and cross-functional teams.Drive integrated project planning, milestone management, resource coordination, dependency tracking, risk mitigation, and executive-level status reporting.Build and maintain project schedules, roadmaps, risk registers, action tracking, dependency management, and governance documentation.Provide concise, executive-level communication regarding project progress, risks, decisions, financial impacts, dependencies, and required actions.Coordinate and negotiate resource assignments with Engineering Resource Managers and communicate capacity and delivery impacts across stakeholders.Ensure alignment between contractual obligations, scope management, compliance requirements, customer expectations, and technical delivery teams.Lead cross-functional collaboration across Product, Engineering, Testing, Operations, Legal, Market Planning, Sales, and customer stakeholders.Manage client communications, executive stakeholder engagement, escalations, and expectation management throughout all project phases.Oversee all phases of the product development and implementation lifecycle, from initiation through deployment and operational transition.Identify delivery risks proactively and drive accountability across teams to ensure timely resolution and successful outcomes.Support operational optimization and continuous improvement efforts across project delivery, governance, reporting, and execution practices.Apply structured delivery methodologies, including Agile and hybrid approaches, based on project, customer, and organizational needs.Operate effectively within fast-moving environments where priorities, requirements, and timelines may evolve.Perform all other duties as assignedWhat Success Looks LikeSuccessful candidates for this role are strategic delivery leaders who bring structure, accountability, and clarity to highly complex initiatives. They operate with a strong sense of ownership, communicate effectively at the executive level, and maintain client confidence during challenging situations.The ideal candidate demonstrates:Strategic thinking and the ability to connect project execution to client outcomes, revenue impact, contractual obligations, and broader business priorities.Executive communication skills with the ability to distill complex issues into concise, actionable updates for leadership and clients.Extreme ownership and accountability, pro