Lead Tech Delivery Manager - Project Hire

The Walt Disney Company • Orlando, FL

8d • Onsite

About The Position

The Lead Project Manager will be a part of the Financial Products team within Enterprise Technology (ET). This role supports finance transformation initiatives, such as EPM implementation and technology conversion, impacting all TWDC segments and lines of business. The position facilitates delivery execution into production from scope definition to launch readiness, including production validations. This role may also lead workstreams for overall program execution. This is an estimated 20-month Project Hire position with no guarantee of permanent placement.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years in Technology roles for large/enterprise software companies including financial, technical, and business stakeholder executive facilitation.
• Strong understanding of data governance and data messaging platforms including Cloud.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience understanding the technical deployment of SAP products or other large scale applications.
• Experience with Release Management methodologies (e.g., Charm and/or SAP Transport methodology).
• Proven experience in managing complex technical projects.
• Experience with SAP or other large environment readiness.
• Experience working with SAP basis teams.
• Experience with large data ERPs and understanding the performance impacts when writing code.
• Experienced in “Data” project management using Agile, Iterative, and/or Waterfall SDLC Methodologies.
• Experienced in extracting and documenting data and analytic requirements, working across all levels of users from senior executives to analysts.
• Track record of taking ownership and driving results.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with strong writing and speaking skills.
• Ability to think both strategically and tactically with good attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to execute delivery on large programs with multiple projects - prioritization, planning, and task delegation.
• Strong program/project financial management skills including forecasting.
• Experience with resource allocation tracking across program/projects.
• Proven experience in managing complex technical projects with complexity across stakeholders, multi-functional teams, requirements, and implementations.
• Ability to think logically, communicate clearly, and be well organized.

Nice To Haves

• Masters in a related field a plus.

Responsibilities

• Play a leadership role during command centers and hypercare for 100+ individuals for a given project.
• Understand and use high-quality, scalable, and cost-effective technology solutions that meet global business requirements and conform to architectural designs and technology strategies.
• Partner to create and handle technical roadmaps and help set and lead technology strategy.
• Make technical decisions for complex development scenarios requiring transformation from existing processes.
• Own/facilitate scrum ceremonies.
• Lead launch planning sessions focused on critical technical and business milestones for pre-launch and develop day-of-launch tasks to track critical implementation milestones and dependencies.
• Write and prioritize Epics, Technical User Stories, and Tasks in a requirements repository with traceability to test cases in a testing repository.
• Understand interdependencies and impacts to other cast members' workstreams.
• Drive for on-time delivery of all aspects of projects within the Finance Transformation Program.
• Consistently evaluate and improve the project plan, course correct for incoming/new prioritization and dependencies.
• Oversee the requirements process; ensure traceability of high-level requirements throughout the program.
• Participate in data analysis activities as needed.
• Lead or participate in the assessment of potential new opportunities, analyzing scope at a high-level and work with Business, Technology, or Functional managers to agree on project approach, business cases, risk assessments, funding requirements, and resource/capability needs.
• Create detailed plans that coordinate thousands of tasks to successfully deploy complex projects.
• Understand the impacts of delays and clearly define the critical path for project go-live.
• Make recommendations on tasks that can be performed in parallel to reduce overall business impact.
• Be accountable for accurate forecasting, tracking, and adherence to program budgets.
• Understand and articulate challenges, assumptions, timelines, and expenses across projects and at the program level.
• Manage project variance and root cause analysis, develop risk mitigation/issue management plans related to go-live efforts with the objective to meet financial targets.
• Quickly respond to technical impairments or outages immediately during launch and hypercare.
• Ensure effective, proactive, and open communications, horizontally and vertically, to achieve transparency and clarity of program goals, progress, and issues.
• Support and actively work to create a healthy work team environment, bringing measured response along with transparency and discipline to active discussions and communications.
• Coordinate and facilitate on-boarding requirements for all finance integrations in all phases of the program.

Benefits

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees