Technical Project Manager

Overview

Position: Technical Project Manager

Location: REMOTE

Duration: 6 months+

Summary

The Technical Project Manager manages complex projects and Agile value streams, which are highly visible and critical to the business while communicating with team members and stakeholders effectively. Will lead teams, projects, and people in a resource-intensive, highly demanding and rapidly changing business environment. This role requires maintaining day-to-day tasks, the product delivery, and the project’s overall success and change management activities at all levels of the organizations.

Responsibilities

• Plan, build, and run technology-based solutions consistent with client’s implementation methodology.
• Manage and deliver programs and projects within stated targets.
• Delivery of effective change management by consistent application of the change management process and the correct integration of tools, platforms, applications and resources.
• Management of IT Application and Infrastructure change requests, approvals and the scheduled releases into the production environment.
• Deliver customer facing and internal change management activities to ensure ongoing stakeholder and user engagement.
• Coach and guide team members how to optimize their efficiency within the project team best.
• Define the deliverable's schedule and scope while balancing this with timely and regular value deliveries, and organizing and leading team scrum, planning meetings.
• Support the product owner in managing communications with stakeholders, managing business stakeholder's expectations for deliverables.
• Ensure project artifacts such as user stories, definition of done, acceptance criteria, and test cases are properly documented.
• Identify and address impediments and blockers, recognize and manage risks, dependencies, escalating when necessary.
• Utilize tools such as ServiceNow to track team progress, productivity, velocity, and individual performance.
• Measure and report on team performance and progress, as well as identify opportunities for improvement.
• Follow all asset management guidelines and procedures.
• Create and update knowledgebase documentation.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of Technical Project Management experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong background in Microsoft technologies and Microsoft based project delivery
• Experience delivering AI projects
• Experience managing 3-5 projects simultaneously
• Experience managing projects of $2-10M in size simultaneously.
• Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies and tools.
• Understanding of how organizations go through a change and the change process.
• The ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a matrix organization.
• Proven track record of managing costs, schedules, and scope.
• Successful history in decomposing business objectives into a series of associated projects and manage deliverables through project teams.
• Industry Certifications (PMP, CBAP, Six Sigma), a plus