Palladium
Manager, Technology and Innovation, GISI Ignite
Palladium, Washington, District of Columbia, us, 20022
Manager, Technology and Innovation, GISI Ignite
About GISI Ignite and Palladium
GISI is a global, employee‑owned family of companies focused on construction, infrastructure, earth and environment, and global development.
GISI Ignite is GISI's newly launched centralized technology and innovation team, built to strengthen how our operating companies deliver projects and provide expert guidance on AI, data, and digital solutions. We develop scalable platforms, drive workflow modernization, and help operating companies apply cyber‑physical solutions that strengthen the performance, resilience, and safety of major capital programs.
Palladium, a GISI company, works to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries with a workforce of 2,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff around the world.
This role is hired through Palladium, the operational platform for Ignite.
This Opportunity
GISI Ignite is seeking a
Manager, Technology and Innovation
to support the delivery of technology‑enabled solutions and innovation programs across GISI's family of companies and client portfolio.
The role serves as the connective tissue between strategy and execution, translating client needs into structured work plans, guiding solution development, overseeing pilot implementations, and ensuring multidisciplinary teams deliver high‑quality outcomes.
Ideal candidates have experience in stakeholder engagement, consulting, engineering, and/or technology‑based roles and are passionate about solving complex problems and driving change through digital transformation and innovation.
This is a consulting role that serves both internal and external clients in an agile way based on the individual's experience and expertise.
Managers operate confidently across multiple projects, balancing client engagement, delivery leadership, and internal coordination, shaping the client experience and advancing GISI's innovation capability.
Location and Compensation
Full‑time, hybrid position based out of GISI's New York, NY or Arlington, VA office, with potential client travel.
Full‑time equivalent annual base salary range: $120,000 to $150,000.
Final salary offer will consider qualifications, education, experience, skills, seniority, performance, and GISI/Palladium business needs.
Reporting Lines
Reports to a Director, GISI Ignite.
Initially no direct supervisory duties; may be introduced as the business evolves.
Primary Roles and Responsibilities Client Engagement & Advisory
Manage trusted relationships with mid‑ to senior‑level client stakeholders internal and external to GISI operating companies.
Lead solution discovery activities including interviews, workshops, and field assessments to surface operational challenges and transformation needs.
Support engagement teams to identify cross‑company and sector patterns, strategic themes, and high‑impact digital transformation and innovation opportunities.
Solution Design & Innovation Delivery
Support development of innovation concepts, digital transformation pathways, and solution requirements, translating business needs into actionable solutions.
Conduct market research and evaluate technologies to inform solution design based on available products on the market.
Carry out detailed requirement gathering activities for technology solutions, business process enhancements, and system integrations by collaborating with internal and external clients.
Assess and propose solutions that account for people, process, technology, and governance components of potential solutions.
Develop proof of concept solutions and prototypes to garner client buy‑in and translate concepts into actionable software or data products.
Program Management & Execution
Manage day‑to‑day delivery of client innovation engagements, coordinating workstreams across GISI operating companies, technical teams, and vendors.
Develop detailed project plans, manage dependencies, track milestones, and ensure alignment with client expectations.
Develop change management strategies and oversee their implementation, working closely with internal and external stakeholders.
Identify risks, issues, and mitigation strategies, escalating complex challenges appropriately.
Ensure quality and consistency in deliverables and client communications.
Team Management & Collaboration
Provide coaching, structure, and direction to junior team members, serving as engagement managers as assigned.
Foster cross‑functional collaboration, ensuring input from engineering, analytics, operations, and technology experts.
Contribute to development of methodologies, frameworks, and playbooks that strengthen team capabilities and support scalable delivery.
Analysis, Insights & Reporting
Lead preparation of client‑ready deliverables including assessments, business cases, process maps, and solution architectures.
Track engagement KPIs, client satisfaction, and initiative outcomes to inform future phases of work.
Generate insights on market trends, client needs, and technology developments that may influence GISI's priorities.
Essential Criteria
6+ years of experience in consulting, digital transformation, technology, or business analysis‑related roles.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Technology or related fields; Masters degree preferred.
Demonstrated knowledge in emerging technologies and innovation methodologies, including familiarity with AI, automation, and data integration platforms.
Proven ability to lead workstreams, manage client interactions, and deliver complex, cross‑functional initiatives.
Core Abilities Required
Strong experience with multidisciplinary problem solving, systems thinking, and structured analysis.
Demonstrated comfort working across diverse industries and engaging with stakeholders with varying technical backgrounds.
Operates fluidly between strategic framing and hands‑on delivery, providing clarity, structure, and direction to teams and clients.
Thrives in multi‑stakeholder environments, translating diverse inputs into coherent solutions and action plans.
Inquisitive, creative, and eager to learn new industries, systems, technologies, and skills and apply them.
Skills
Design thinking practitioner or Agile / change management certified (or equivalent experience).
Business process and system mapping and scenario planning.
Software prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, PowerApps, Cursor/Windsurf, Miro, or similar).
Data analytics & visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, Excel).
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early as the position may close once a suitable candidate is found.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or status as a protected veteran.
If you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual, or for any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss.
Safeguarding – We define safeguarding as "the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm". We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding‑focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.
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GISI is a global, employee‑owned family of companies focused on construction, infrastructure, earth and environment, and global development.
GISI Ignite is GISI's newly launched centralized technology and innovation team, built to strengthen how our operating companies deliver projects and provide expert guidance on AI, data, and digital solutions. We develop scalable platforms, drive workflow modernization, and help operating companies apply cyber‑physical solutions that strengthen the performance, resilience, and safety of major capital programs.
Palladium, a GISI company, works to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries with a workforce of 2,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff around the world.
This role is hired through Palladium, the operational platform for Ignite.
This Opportunity
GISI Ignite is seeking a
Manager, Technology and Innovation
to support the delivery of technology‑enabled solutions and innovation programs across GISI's family of companies and client portfolio.
The role serves as the connective tissue between strategy and execution, translating client needs into structured work plans, guiding solution development, overseeing pilot implementations, and ensuring multidisciplinary teams deliver high‑quality outcomes.
Ideal candidates have experience in stakeholder engagement, consulting, engineering, and/or technology‑based roles and are passionate about solving complex problems and driving change through digital transformation and innovation.
This is a consulting role that serves both internal and external clients in an agile way based on the individual's experience and expertise.
Managers operate confidently across multiple projects, balancing client engagement, delivery leadership, and internal coordination, shaping the client experience and advancing GISI's innovation capability.
Location and Compensation
Full‑time, hybrid position based out of GISI's New York, NY or Arlington, VA office, with potential client travel.
Full‑time equivalent annual base salary range: $120,000 to $150,000.
Final salary offer will consider qualifications, education, experience, skills, seniority, performance, and GISI/Palladium business needs.
Reporting Lines
Reports to a Director, GISI Ignite.
Initially no direct supervisory duties; may be introduced as the business evolves.
Primary Roles and Responsibilities Client Engagement & Advisory
Manage trusted relationships with mid‑ to senior‑level client stakeholders internal and external to GISI operating companies.
Lead solution discovery activities including interviews, workshops, and field assessments to surface operational challenges and transformation needs.
Support engagement teams to identify cross‑company and sector patterns, strategic themes, and high‑impact digital transformation and innovation opportunities.
Solution Design & Innovation Delivery
Support development of innovation concepts, digital transformation pathways, and solution requirements, translating business needs into actionable solutions.
Conduct market research and evaluate technologies to inform solution design based on available products on the market.
Carry out detailed requirement gathering activities for technology solutions, business process enhancements, and system integrations by collaborating with internal and external clients.
Assess and propose solutions that account for people, process, technology, and governance components of potential solutions.
Develop proof of concept solutions and prototypes to garner client buy‑in and translate concepts into actionable software or data products.
Program Management & Execution
Manage day‑to‑day delivery of client innovation engagements, coordinating workstreams across GISI operating companies, technical teams, and vendors.
Develop detailed project plans, manage dependencies, track milestones, and ensure alignment with client expectations.
Develop change management strategies and oversee their implementation, working closely with internal and external stakeholders.
Identify risks, issues, and mitigation strategies, escalating complex challenges appropriately.
Ensure quality and consistency in deliverables and client communications.
Team Management & Collaboration
Provide coaching, structure, and direction to junior team members, serving as engagement managers as assigned.
Foster cross‑functional collaboration, ensuring input from engineering, analytics, operations, and technology experts.
Contribute to development of methodologies, frameworks, and playbooks that strengthen team capabilities and support scalable delivery.
Analysis, Insights & Reporting
Lead preparation of client‑ready deliverables including assessments, business cases, process maps, and solution architectures.
Track engagement KPIs, client satisfaction, and initiative outcomes to inform future phases of work.
Generate insights on market trends, client needs, and technology developments that may influence GISI's priorities.
Essential Criteria
6+ years of experience in consulting, digital transformation, technology, or business analysis‑related roles.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Technology or related fields; Masters degree preferred.
Demonstrated knowledge in emerging technologies and innovation methodologies, including familiarity with AI, automation, and data integration platforms.
Proven ability to lead workstreams, manage client interactions, and deliver complex, cross‑functional initiatives.
Core Abilities Required
Strong experience with multidisciplinary problem solving, systems thinking, and structured analysis.
Demonstrated comfort working across diverse industries and engaging with stakeholders with varying technical backgrounds.
Operates fluidly between strategic framing and hands‑on delivery, providing clarity, structure, and direction to teams and clients.
Thrives in multi‑stakeholder environments, translating diverse inputs into coherent solutions and action plans.
Inquisitive, creative, and eager to learn new industries, systems, technologies, and skills and apply them.
Skills
Design thinking practitioner or Agile / change management certified (or equivalent experience).
Business process and system mapping and scenario planning.
Software prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, PowerApps, Cursor/Windsurf, Miro, or similar).
Data analytics & visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, Excel).
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early as the position may close once a suitable candidate is found.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or status as a protected veteran.
If you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual, or for any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss.
Safeguarding – We define safeguarding as "the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm". We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding‑focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.
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