IT Project Management Director

Job Description   Nova IT Project Management Director will own intake, prioritization, sequencing, dependency management, delivery flow, and release execution across the Nova Platform team. The Director establishes the delivery system that connects product priorities, architecture decisions, engineering capacity, quality requirements, and release commitments, creating transparency and predictability across the Left Arm.   This leader will manage a team of delivery and project-management professionals and partner closely with Product and Platform Engineering, Product Management, Architecture, Build Quality, DevSecOps, the Orchestration Hub, and Right Arm teams. The role is accountable for delivery governance, integrated planning, risk and issue management, executive reporting, and continuous improvement in throughput, cycle time, and release reliability.   Core Responsibilities Include   Delivery Strategy & Operating Model   • Define and operate the delivery model, including intake, prioritization, planning cadence, governance, and escalation pathways.   • Turn product and platform priorities into clear plans, milestones, release commitments, capacity needs, and accountable ownership.   • Establish consistent delivery practices across engineering teams while allowing fit-for-purpose execution at the workstream level.   • Align delivery plans with architecture, quality, security, infrastructure, data, and operational-readiness requirements.   • Ensure Left Arm plans connect to the integrated Nova roadmap and cross-arm milestones.   Flow, Dependency & Release Management   • Own sequencing, dependency management, milestone tracking, and release coordination across the software factory.   • Identify bottlenecks, conflicting priorities, capacity constraints, and cross-team risks before they affect committed outcomes.   • Coordinate release scope, readiness activities, decision points, and communications across engineering and partner teams.   • Partner with the Orchestration Hub and Right Arm planning leaders on dates and dependencies that cross organizational boundaries.   • Create escalation and recovery plans when delivery performance moves outside agreed tolerances.   Performance, Governance & Reporting   • Establish metrics and scorecards for predictability, throughput, cycle time, work in progress, dependency health, quality, risk, and release reliability.   • Provide concise, decision-ready reporting to Nova leadership, highlighting outcomes, tradeoffs, risks, and actions required.   • Maintain disciplined risk, issue, assumption, dependency, and decision management across the portfolio.   • Use delivery data to identify systemic constraints and drive continuous improvement across teams and processes.   • Ensure commitments, changes, decisions, and readiness evidence are documented and transparent.   People & Stakeholder Leadership   • Lead and develop a team of project, program, release, and delivery-management professionals.   • Build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Quality, Security, Infrastructure, Data, Finance, and business teams.   • Facilitate resolution of cross-functional conflicts and maintain focus on enterprise outcomes.   • Manage delivery resources, vendor support, budgets, and capacity within the function.   • Promote an accountable, fact-based, and collaborative culture that enables rapid escalation and resolution.   Critical Leadership Competencies   • Drives Vision and Purpose: Connects the role’s work to Nova’s broader transformation objectives and communicates a clear path forward.   • Delivers Results: Creates accountability, removes barriers, and drives measurable outcomes under demanding timelines.   • Manages Complexity: Synthesizes complex and som