Softworld, a Kelly Company · 7 hours ago
Project Manager/Platform Engineering
Boston, MA
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expSoftworld, a Kelly Company, is seeking a Project Manager for their Platform Engineering team. This role involves overseeing the design and implementation of tools and workflows to support internal software engineering teams, ensuring smooth project execution and facilitating firm-wide adoption of new platforms and tools.
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Responsibilities
Drive Project Delivery: Oversee planning, execution, and tracking of Platform Engineering initiatives, ensuring internal development teams remain aligned with timelines, deliverables, and scope
Maintain Schedules & Deliverables: Build and manage project plans, monitor progress, and proactively identify risks, delays, or dependencies that may impact outcomes
Raise & Manage Issues: Surface concerns and blockers early, work with engineering leads and cross functional partners to facilitate timely resolution and ensure transparent communication of impacts
Coordinate Platform Adoption: Lead firm wide adoption efforts for new internal platforms, tools, and workflows—engaging stakeholders, tracking onboarding progress, and ensuring teams meet adoption and migration milestones
Drive Cross Team Alignment: Coordinate dependencies across engineering, APS, and partner teams, ensuring decisions and sequencing are well communicated and execution remains synchronized
Develop Dashboards & Reporting: Create and maintain dashboards, status reports, and metrics to help teams and leadership stay on track and make data driven decisions
Facilitate Agile Practices: Support agile ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, PI planning, retrospectives) to keep project execution organized and predictable
Support Strategic Initiatives: Ensure project outcomes align with broader Platform Engineering and Technology Strategy goals, including standardization, workflow optimization, and improved engineering efficiency
Stakeholder Communication: Provide clear, consistent updates to engineering leadership, partners, and business stakeholders on project status, risks, and recommendations
Qualification
Required
5–7+ years of project or program management experience in technology or engineering environments, ideally supporting platform, developer tooling, or infrastructure related initiatives
Strong understanding of modern SDLC practices, developer workflows, CI/CD pipelines, cloud native tooling, and cross team engineering dependencies
Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi team projects with numerous technical and organizational dependencies
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate technical detail into clear, concise updates for diverse audiences
Proven capability in identifying risks early, driving mitigation plans, and maintaining transparent tracking across teams
Ability to build dashboards, metrics, and reporting to monitor timelines, adoption progress, and engineering efficiency
Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to align engineering, architecture, and product teams toward shared goals
Experience working within agile frameworks, supporting ceremonies, and coordinating work across multiple streams
Highly organized, independent, and capable of managing competing priorities in a fast moving engineering environment
Company
Softworld, a Kelly Company
Softworld has developed expertise across five distinct staffing and consulting practices over the past 25 years.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2021-04-06Acquired
Leadership Team
Steven Edwards
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2023-01-24
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