Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

Anywhere (Remote)

A Technical Project Manager is a highly motivated individual with the ability to drive technology projects through their life-cycle, ensuring technical solutions are sound and aligned to business goals. They are responsible for the day-to-day management of projects through all stages. They can anticipate and resolve any problems, bottlenecks, or scheduling conflicts. They are a sound communicator who can link developers and business units to ensure quality and timelines of project implementations.

Responsiblities

• Drive project kick-off activities: internal meetings, statement of work creation, project plan documentation for top-tier, high profile customers.
• Act as an escalation path for implementation projects to reset and clarify expectations.
• Provide oversight and management of work backlogs, the prioritization process and work scheduling and monitoring.
• Oversee assignments, report on risks, issues, and accomplishments.
• Build strong relationships with customers, partners, and internal team members.
• Works with the project stakeholders to develop schedules and establish milestones
• Ensures project progress against defined milestones and deadlines
• Actively communicates with key stakeholders to keep them informed on project activities
• Ensures adherence to all client data and security requirements
• Supervises hand-offs ensuring smooth transitions
• Supports internal and external client(s) in pre-implementation of new programs
• Supports the analysis of client data and strategies on application design
• Oversees the requirements/functional specification process
• Facilitate getting the work done practicing servant leadership and encourage discussion, decision making and conflict resolution.
• Assist in team development through holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work, and leveraging cross-functional team skills to improve product backlog throughput.

Requirements

• 2+ years in project management
• Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies.
• Experience using Jira and Agile Scrum methodologies.
• Certifications in one preferably two or more of the following methodologies - SaFe Agilist, PMP, Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner
• External facing/customer experience leading complex technical projects.
• Proven experience ensuring teams are developing and executing against detailed project plans, including overall budget allocations, schedule roll-ups of all projects, critical path, and risk assessment.
• Demonstrated analytical skills and a natural predisposition toward data-driven decision making
• Ability to make reasoned decisions in situations of uncertainty or imperfect data

Qualities

• Superb written and verbal communication to effectively communicate with client executives and their respective teams.
• Confidence in communicating proactively with clients and internal stakeholders
• Known for ability to produce high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
• Ability to rapidly adapt and respond to changes in environment and priorities
• Passionate about solving real problems
• Self-assured and results oriented professional with an ownership mentality
• Ability to manage numerous complex projects simultaneously