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Job#: 3028316
Job Description:
Engineering Project Manager (Senior / Techno-Functional)
As an Engineering Project Manager, you will serve as a senior delivery leader responsible for driving execution across complex digital and engineering initiatives. This role operates as a techno-functional partner to engineering and product leadership, ensuring teams are aligned, unblocked, and delivering with quality and urgency.
The ideal candidate is not a pure process manager - they understand technology, retail systems, and how engineering teams operate.
Responsibilities
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
Job#: 3028316
Job Description:
Engineering Project Manager (Senior / Techno-Functional)
As an Engineering Project Manager, you will serve as a senior delivery leader responsible for driving execution across complex digital and engineering initiatives. This role operates as a techno-functional partner to engineering and product leadership, ensuring teams are aligned, unblocked, and delivering with quality and urgency.
The ideal candidate is not a pure process manager - they understand technology, retail systems, and how engineering teams operate.
Responsibilities
- Lead planning and execution of complex digital and engineering initiatives
- Partner closely with Engineering, Architecture, and Product leaders to drive delivery
- Track milestones, dependencies, risks, and outcomes across multiple workstreams
- Facilitate communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ensure teams remain focused on outcomes, quality, and delivery timelines
- Proactively identify risks and remove delivery roadblocks
- Support leadership with status reporting, prioritization, and decision support
- Help establish delivery best practices while remaining flexible and pragmatic
- 7-10 years of experience managing software and digital delivery initiatives
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and cloud-based systems
- Retail or eCommerce experience strongly preferred
- Experience working with Agile and hybrid delivery models
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, evolving environments
- Comfortable partnering directly with senior leaders and engineering team
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.