Sr Technical Project Manager - Network Construction & Design Tools

Comcast • Philadelphia, PA

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About The Position

Responsible for managing complex projects through entire project lifecycle (inception, design, development, integration and test, trial and deployment). Act as a liaison with appropriate company personnel and vendors to ensure project compliance to standards, coordinate multiple complex high priority tasks. Assure feature and functionality and performance metrics requirements are defined. Initiate, facilitate and monitor specific inter/intra-departmental project progress and performance to assure quality and on time delivery. Ensure milestone dates are met. Monitor risks during various stages of the project and escalate issues to the appropriate level of management. Maintain project status reports on projects. Create and manage contingency plans for projects. Estimate and manage budgets. Evaluate impact change request against communicated timelines. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Acts as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment. May lead teams or projects and shares expertise.

The Technology + Product organization works at the intersection of media and technology and our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products and next-generation technologies that transform the customer experience.

As part of the larger CONNECT organization, also known as the Network team, the ION organization build the software that enables our teams in the field (whether construction, design, permitting, finance teams) to do their work to grow, build, improve the network. We are a team of software engineers, QA engineers, product owners, technical PMs, product operations folks, etc. This team is being entrusted to build this software for the existing portfolio of applications (P2, IRIS, and OMNI), but is also seeing a lot of growth opportunity as many of the division applications migrate to HQ.

Requirements

• Project Management Skills
• Ability to track risks and build mitigation plans
• Stakeholder Communication and Technical team communication
• Ability to communicate at both levels (at executive levels to provide high-level program summaries, but also to communicate with technical working teams)
• Presentation Skills
• Ability to build a PowerPoint deck to tell a story for the program
• Knowledge of Agile Methodologies
• An understanding of scrum, waterfall, kanban and how it impacts Tech Ready Milestone

Responsibilities

• Coordinate scoping and architecture review activities for initiated programs and follow process for program approval at architecture initiation board.
• Create and track end to end project plan in conjunction with the lead engineer.
• Track tasks and milestones across all parties, including vendors.
• Coordinate, manage and drive test organization activities.
• Facilitate bug triage, manage bug lists across vendors, track issue resolution with lead engineer.
• Coordinate change request generation and tracking.
• Make project scheduling decisions in conjunction with the lead engineer or facilitate conversations necessary for decision making.
• Report on project's progress as required by product engineering management.
• Identify and manage critical path and risk areas and create risk response and mitigation plans.
• Report weekly (or as necessary) on any risks/issues. Escalate issues as required to unblock open issues.
• Work with other project managers to track and manage inter-project dependencies.
• Communicate updates on major milestones, escalations and status to lead engineer and lead project manager.
• Work with lead engineer and management to set project specific budget. Project spend rates based on the budgets.
• Manage within budgetary objectives set by manager, monitoring and controlling costs within functional area.
• Mentor junior level project managers on the team.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance.
• Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical & Dental
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Generous paid time off
• Life Milestones - from adoption assistance, childcare resources, pet insurance, and more, Comcast supports you at all life stages.
• Courtesy Services - We offer all full-time employees in serviceable areas free digital TV and internet.
• Discount tickets for Universal Resorts, including theme park tickets and onsite hotel rooms.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level