Principal, IT Project Manager

Overview

The US Oncology Network is looking for a Principal IT Project Manager to join our team at Texas Oncology .

This is a remote role and requires the candidate to reside within Texas.

As a part of The US Oncology Network , Texas Oncology delivers high-quality, evidence-based care to patients close to home. Texas Oncology is the largest community oncology provider in the country and has approximately 600 providers in 280 sites across Texas, our founders pioneered community-based cancer care because they believed in making the best available cancer care accessible to all communities, allowing people to fight cancer at home with the critical support of family and friends nearby. Our mission is still the same today—at Texas Oncology, we use leading-edge technology and research to deliver high-quality, evidence-based cancer care to help our patients achieve “More breakthroughs. More victories.” ® in their fight against cancer. Today, Texas Oncology treats half of all Texans diagnosed with cancer on an annual basis.

The US Oncology Network is one of the nation’s largest networks of community-based oncology physicians dedicated to advancing cancer care in America. The US Oncology Network is supported by McKesson Corporation focused on empowering a vibrant and sustainable community patient care delivery system to advance the science, technology, and quality of care.

What does the Principle IT Project Manager do? Including but not limited to:

The Senior IT Project Manager – Digital Delivery is an individual contributor role responsible for end-to-end delivery of complex, enterprise-scale digital initiatives across Texas Oncology. This role owns delivery outcomes across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring initiatives are planned, executed, and operationalized with rigor, transparency, and alignment to the digital transformation roadmap.

This role operates with a high degree of autonomy and accountability, partnering closely with clinical, operational, and IT leaders to translate strategic priorities into executable delivery plans, while ensuring adherence to enterprise IT standards, security requirements, and production-readiness expectations.

Responsibilities

The essential duties and responsibilities: including but not limited to:

Digital Program & Project Delivery

• Own end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent digital and IT initiatives, including clinical systems, application implementations, workflow digitization, data and analytics solutions, and platform modernization efforts.
• Drive disciplined execution across the full IT delivery lifecycle, including requirements definition, design, build, testing, deployment, and transition to support.
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise IT standards for security, scalability, reliability, and supportability

Multi-Project & Dependency Management

• Actively manage competing priorities, interdependencies, and resource constraints across multiple workstreams.
• Identify and mitigate technical, operational, and security-related risks; drive timely escalation when required.
• Maintain integrated delivery plans that account for upstream and downstream IT dependencies.

Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner with the Transformation Office, IT architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and application teams to ensure alignment with enterprise IT direction and business goals.
• Ensure projects follow established IT governance, change management, and release management processes.
• Provide clear, executive-ready communication on delivery status, risks, and technical tradeoffs.

Vendor & Technology Partner Coordination

• Coordinate execution with technology vendors and system integrators, ensuring compliance with IT architecture and security standards.
• Track vendor deliverables, manage dependencies, and ensure smooth handoff to IT operations and support teams.

Governance, Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain IT project artifacts including charters, schedules, RAID logs, and status reporting.
• Support portfolio-level IT governance, audits, and delivery reviews.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of IT project management standards, tools, and delivery practices.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate for the position will have the following background and experience:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
• 6–8 years of experience delivering complex IT and digital initiatives in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent IT projects with significant cross-functional impact.
• Strong understanding of digital technologies, systems implementation, and workflow transformation.
• Strong understanding of IT delivery models, SDLC, change management, and production support concepts.
• Excellent communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare IT or clinical systems delivery experience.
• Experience delivering data, analytics, interoperability, or AI-enabled initiatives.
• PMP or equivalent certification.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be offered to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include ability to adjust focus. Requires vision and hearing corrected to normal range.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be offered to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Work is performed in an office environment. Involves frequent interaction with corporate and field staff, as well as external customers and contacts. Work may require some travel by air or automobile. Fantastic time-management skills with the ability to multi-task.