The Technical Project Manager will be a key contributor to the planning and orchestration of major and minor projects in the IT project portfolio, partnering with other strategy, development, and administrative groups to progress large projects in an enterprise class environment.
Requirements
- Manage planning, scoping, and dependency identification of related projects in the IT project portfolio.
- Drive solutions to delivery through following traditional and agile project management approaches with a variety of teams and projects.
- Establish work plans and staffing for project activities, iterations, or phases, and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
- Coordinate and lead project meetings to include defining and managing to a set agenda, summarizing meeting results, and clearly identifying action item owners and timelines requiring follow-up.
- Demonstrate capability of writing project proposals, vendor evaluations including RFI/RFPs, business case documentation, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to both IT and business stakeholders or professional peers, and working closely with upper management.
- Ability to understand and adapt traditional and agile frameworks and methodologies to fit environmental context focusing on the end goal of delivering business value.
- Identify risks and develop mitigation approaches that will allow progress despite deviation from defined solutions.
- Develop and execute project resource plans that ensure that the right people are in the right place doing the right things at the right time.
- Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and consult with project staff to outline a work plan.
- Ensure that project goals are in line with business objectives and that project goals are achieved.
- Demonstrate expertise in setting and managing business expectations.
- Utilize effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment where this role may not directly control resources.
- Exhibit strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of business trust and confidence.
- Collaborate with the Quality Assurance team to coordinate testing phase of the project cycle, including QA, UAT, Regression and other forms of testing as well as ensuring testing materials/documentation are tracked for the project.
- Communicate actively with key stakeholders, project participants, and leadership regarding the project.
- Exemplify exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- Other benefits may be available
