TPM (Technical Project Manager)

Retail Industry•Dallas, TX

6d•Onsite

About The Position

TPM (Technical Project Manager) is responsible for managing business and technical deliverables to the project budget and timeline throughout the various project phases. This role involves developing and documenting project plans, budgets, and schedules, identifying and documenting team roles and responsibilities, and managing release/deployment plans. The TPM will also schedule, coordinate, and lead release and certification calls, identify and mitigate risks, and ensure the synchronization of individual team deliverables for product releases. Additionally, the TPM will manage day-to-day scrum activities, facilitate scrum ceremonies, and interface with product owners and key stakeholders to ensure high-quality delivery of software projects. This role also involves providing development sizings and cost analysis estimates, decomposing stories, designing features, prioritizing tasks, and supporting integration efforts. The TPM will assist development and operations teams in resolving needs and roadblocks.

Requirements

Three or more years of project management experience, managing multiple large, complex and cross functional projects, with emphasis on systems, technologies, business process redesign, and knowledge of technical environments.
Scrum Master and Release Manager experience.
Two or more years of technology experience, previous development or QA experience.
Previous technical experience with the Microsoft technology stack (C#, SQL Server) or with Java.
Ability to understand technical issues and facilitate resolution.
Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle.
Expert knowledge of MS Project, Excel, and MS Word along with general familiarity with Outlook, Visio and other MS Office applications.
Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
Strong interpersonal, negotiation, facilitation, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization, decision-making and conflict resolution skills with a solid ability to ability to identify stakeholders, assess their needs and manage their expectations through effective communication.
Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate.
Experience working with an Agile methodology on large scale, technically complex projects for a large enterprise.
Results Driven (Prioritizing, Taking Initiative, Taking Ownership).
Team Leadership (Coaching Others, Dealing with Stress, Demonstrating Teamwork, Influencing Others, Interacting with Others, Maintaining Composure, Motivating Others, Providing Direction and Leadership).

Nice To Haves

Certified Scrum Master and PMP Certification
Financial Industry experience

Responsibilities

Manage business and technical deliverables to the project budget and timeline throughout the various project phases.
Develop and document project plans, budgets and schedules.
Identify and document the roles, tasks, and responsibilities of the project team.
Document release/deployment plans, present to leadership.
Schedule and manage releases, create deployment tickets.
Schedule, coordinate and lead release and certification calls.
Identify gaps/risks early and establish mitigation plans.
Ensure the coordination of individual team deliverables are synchronized as necessary to achieve product releases.
Manage day-to-day scrum activities and influence team members to leverage, follow and support agile software development practices.
Schedule and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies as needed.
Interface with product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA and Technology Operations to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time and budget.
Work with leads and product owner to provide development sizings & cost analysis estimates.
Work closely with product owner and team members to decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks.
Utilize scrum tools and frameworks to achieve efficiency both internally and externally.
Support integration efforts to build whole systems from various subsystems.
Assist development and operations teams in resolving needs and roadblocks identified by team members.