Technical Project Manager

The Buckle • Kearney, NE

66d

About The Position

The Technical Project Manager will be a key contributor to the planning and orchestration of major and minor projects in the IT project portfolio. The Teammate in this role will successfully partner with other strategy, development, and administrative groups to progress large projects in an enterprise class environment. The Technical Project Manager must be comfortable navigating and facilitating the full project lifecycle from initiation through completion in collaboration with technical analysts, development teams, stakeholders, and senior leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university; or three to five years related job experience and/or training.
• Project management, software engineering or business analyst experience in a professional environment preferred.
• PMP and CSM certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage planning, scoping, and dependency identification of related projects in the IT project portfolio.
• Drive solutions to delivery through following traditional and agile project management approaches with a variety of teams and projects.
• Establish work plans and staffing for project activities, iterations, or phases, and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
• Coordinate and lead project meetings to include defining and managing to a set agenda, summarizing meeting results, and clearly identifying action item owners and timelines requiring follow-up.
• Adhere to IT solution development lifecycle ensuring process and guideline governance throughout product delivery.
• Demonstrate capability of writing project proposals, vendor evaluations including RFI/RFPs, business case documentation, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to both IT and business stakeholders or professional peers, and working closely with upper management.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation approaches that will allow progress despite deviation from defined solutions.
• Develop and execute project resource plans that ensure that the right people are in the right place doing the right things at the right time.
• Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and consult with project staff to outline a work plan.
• Ensure that project goals are in line with business objectives and that project goals are achieved.
• Communicate with all engaged members and stakeholders of the project about status, risk, impediments, scope, and timing throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Collaborate with the Quality Assurance team to coordinate testing phase of the project cycle, including QA, UAT, Regression and other forms of testing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees