Technical Project Manager

Adelphi Group•Chicago, IL

32d•$103,000 - $125,000•Hybrid

About The Position

RAPP Chicago is looking for a Technical Project Manager to join our award-winning Project Management team. RAPP is a global, next-generation precision marketing agency that leverages data, creativity, technology, and empathy to foster client growth. We champion individuality in the marketing solutions we create and in our workplace, fighting for solutions that adapt to the individual’s needs, beliefs, behaviors, and aspirations. We foster an inclusive workplace that emphasizes personal well-being. RAPP is part of Omnicom’s Precision Marketing Group, comprising 4,000 creatives, technologists, strategists, and data and marketing scientists across 40 global markets.

Requirements

Bachelors degree required
2-5 years relevant experience, tech environment is a must
Experience leading SCRUM meetings and sprint planning
Experience with JIRA or similar project management software
Ability to work with cross functional teams and lead a team of developers
Ability to estimate the level of effort a developer would need to complete a given task.
Ability to compentently write technical tickets for developers to work on.
The soft skills of gatekeeping members of an internal technical team from other teams and clients.
Be able to negotiate, coach, present and troubleshoot all the way through a project
Be agile and able to think on your feet – multi-tasking will comes naturally and have your finger on the pulse at all times across all projects
Solid understanding of SDLC and best practices for implementation
Solid understanding of and ability to create clear and comprehensive requirements documentation including usage of use cases or user stories.
Experience with stakeholder interview and requirement capture a must
Familiarity with cloud environments inclusive of Azure and AWS
Solid understanding of common cloud services.
Knowledge or familiarity of Python and JSON
Knowledge of data mining and database management, campaign management, APIs, encryption/hashing, and data security.
Knowldege of how to build and maintain a project schedule and timeline: Microsoft Project or Smartsheets.
Experience within all aspects of process development and execution – we’re particularly keen to see experience of delivering digital solutions through full-cycle web builds, ETL process experience and QA processes
Be a team leader and manager – with experience of growing and developing a team and helping get the best out of your colleagues
Have an understanding of web/software applications, application architecture, OS, functionality, intra/extranet and client/server architectures
The ability to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design, digital design, information analysis, business requirements definition, analysis/modelling skills and database / data warehouse design
Proven ability to rearrange work given new priorities

Nice To Haves

PMP and/or SCRUM certification beneficial
Knowledge or familiarity of campaign orchestration platforms or Pega Marketing tool is a plus
Experience working within a DoD controlled environment is a plus
Good understanding of data security issues inclusive of PII storage and US requirements around compliance (ISO 27001) is a plus

Responsibilities

Continuously monitor progress in terms of the status of the plan and the budget and report back to senior management and the client via weekly or other progress reporting and by organizing and managing status meetings
Develop full-scale integrated project plans and associated communications documents and effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion and oversee tasks though completion
Maintain project timelines, documentation, risks, activities, and decisions reporting on these weekly.
Manage expectations of clients and project stakeholders/sponsors and build a level of respect and trust with clients
Set policies and procedures for projects and ensure projects are run according to them.
Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals and assign individual responsibilities and resolve resource conflicts within assigned resources
Facilitate documentation creation such as business requirements, technical architecture, and functional specifications and ensure technology solutions implemented to deliver best in class solutions for our clients
Conduct project postmortems and create recommendations report to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements and from this, develop best practices and tools for project execution and management