Technical Project Manager
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Technical Project Manager
Duration: 12 -18 Months
Location: New York, NY(Hybrid)
Responsibilities:
The Technical Project Manager serves as a force multiplier for the data engineering teams that build these data sets through their expertise in communication, planning, and program management.
Our TPMs drive Agile based processes focused on predictable, quality delivery and continuous improvement.
They work with a variety of data producers and data consumer stakeholders to refine new requests, prioritize upcoming work, and alleviate blockers.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and other Technical Project Managers to support Data development delivery.
Support the Data Org s the work-intake triage process to ensure new requests are addressed in accordance with SLAs.
Set-up and ensure maintenance of Programs, Epics, and Stories in Jira to appropriately manage the teams work through to completion.
Help set project delivery commitments and determine impacts as a result of fluctuating priorities and resource availability
Coordinate dependencies between teams with other TPMs.
Track and report team velocity and manage Sprint capacity and ensure the team is working efficiently towards delivery goals.
Resolve or escalate blocking impediments as necessary.
Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint and release planning, backlog grooming and refinement sessions, sprint demos, retrospectives and other process meetings.
Coordinate teams in troubleshooting and resolving production support issues which require cross-team coordination, especially those impacting customers
Work with Development managers to manage team capacity.
Coach the development team and stakeholders on following Data Org processes and practices and ensure they are effectively implementing them. Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice.
Required
10+ years of experience in a Technical PM or Scrum Master role, ideally having experience working in a technically challenging and complex environment.
Experience simultaneously assisting multiple scrum teams distributed globally
Expertise in Jira and Confluence, ideally with proficiency in advanced add-ins such as ALM Works Structure
Experience supporting a cloud-based Technical data environment
Excellent communication skills with the ability to set informed delivery expectations based on complexity and team capacity and understand/communicate technical issues
Bachelor s degree in Information Systems, BI or Analytics, or Software Engineering
Familiarity with github
Experience working with enterprise data platforms, such as Databricks or Snowflake, and proficiency with using SQL to query large data sets