Technical Project Manager - Day 1 Onsite
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We are Photon, one of the world's largest Digital Platform Engineering company providing a combination of Strategy Consulting, Creative Design and Technology Services to a wide range of customers.
We work with 40% of the Fortune 100 companies. And, we have a repertoire of niche products and experiences that we have designed and built for businesses to fully empower their digital transformation.
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Job Description:
Technical Project Manager
Las Vegas NV
Day 1 Onsite
Banking Client
Hi ,
We are Photon, one of the world's largest Digital Platform Engineering company providing a combination of Strategy Consulting, Creative Design and Technology Services to a wide range of customers.
We work with 40% of the Fortune 100 companies. And, we have a repertoire of niche products and experiences that we have designed and built for businesses to fully empower their digital transformation.
Check out our video at
Job Description:
Technical Project Manager
Las Vegas NV
Banking Client
What are we looking for?
This Person must be able to wear the multiple hats of Technical Project Manager. He / She must be able to lead cross functional teams, drive the overall planning effort, provide technical guidance, and partner with key internal engineering teams as well as the product and design. He must be able to understand the requirements, current state architecture of the system and drive the effort for the future enhancements. They must possess good knowledge in system design, and technical problem-solving skills. This person must possess strong communication and interpersonal skills and provide technical expertise and ownership of solutions.
Responsibilities
- Own technical program delivery by driving new feature development through every stage of the agile software development lifecycle
- Drive visibility, accountability, and execution across their areas of software development for the organization.
- Understand technology requirements, roadmap, dependencies, evolution, and develop a plan for mitigating risks and delivering features that meet the requirements across multiple products.
- Drive technical excellence within the team, coordinating and contributing to engineering deliverables including architectural diagrams, specifications, launch criteria, and test plans.
- Establish expertise in the technology area, becoming the go-to escalation point for execution, leader for driving visibility across the program, and orchestrator for managing the integration across your program area.
- Must be a dedicated member of the Scrum team and help the team to improve continuously, maximize velocity and deliver high quality products
- Provide hands-on program management during analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation phases.
- Work cross-functionally to develop best practices and development processes in a quickly-changing and dynamic environment, drive impact through deployment of key initiatives and garner adoption of those processes.
- Own capability backlogs and participate in regular agile planning and grooming sessions to prioritize the work required in near, medium and long term
- Collaborate with partners, product, and development teams to craft technical solutions and provide detailed specifications that satisfy scalability, reliability, and performance goals
- Lead communications and relationships with internal and external partners
- Resolve conflicts, maintain clarity on priorities and drive progress on execution.
- Excellent project & team management skills, including active mitigation of risks to the plan, providing status updates, management of trade-offs to drive satisfactory completion of product/project, and facilitation of planning and governance activities with team(s)
- Understand the importance of system and technology integration and the basic features and facilities involved in the integration process
- Participate in weekly, monthly, and annual reviews and planning sessions with senior leadership and technology partners.
- Manage and assist with org-wide ad-hoc, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting
- Constructively drives for improvements over time through efficiencies, process improvements or automation
- Plan capacity based on known work and new roadmap items
- Mentor and guide the team members with system design, best practices and coding standards
- Identify bottlenecks and issues and provide solutions to mitigate and address these issues
- Estimate efforts and ensure that work is completed in a timely manner
Preferred Skills:
- BS or advanced degree in Computer Science, or related field
- 8+ years of experience in IT industry with 5+ years of experience leading / managing engineering teams
- Experience leading technology investments across multiple products or product families from innovation to delivery.
- Experience leading onsite and offshore agile teams
- Experience solutioning and estimating requirements
- Demonstrated experience leading execution across highly ambiguous, complex products and programs, with experience making technical and product tradeoffs balancing business needs and technical constraints.
- Knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope.
- Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership.
- Experience in leading complex execution across multiple teams in different time zones, anticipating roadblocks and creating a path forward.
- Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.
- Proven communicator who can translate high-level goals into tangible action plans, and vice-versa & expertise communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Agile Certification and / or PMP
