Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

Technical project managers chief responsibility is to manage the development sprints effectively and efficiently from planning to execution to review in an agile development environment. Your role will include mentoring your groups (interfacing with clients, running of daily scrums, managing the product backlog, collaborating on requirement documentation, managing support tickets) and unblocking barriers to keep the teams moving. You will be responsible to communicate and collaborate primarily with the senior management, clients and development teams. The ideal candidate will be able to collaborate with cross-functional teams, demonstrate strong leadership abilities and have the desire to be part of a fast-growing company where you'll have the opportunity to guide the development of your teams.

Responsibilities/Oversite:

• Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
• Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
• Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
• Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
• Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
• Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
• Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
• Able to do postmortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
• Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
• Implement and support principles, rules and processes
• Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
• Maintain team data in project management software (i.e., JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and execution
• Presents high level project readouts for senior management and clients
• Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
• Manage other special projects as assigned
• Other duties as needed

Skills and Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 5 years of project management experience and 2 years leading sprints
• Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
• Expert coach on implementation of agile
• Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
• Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams' needs
• Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
• Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience
• Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
• Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
• Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email
• Self-motivated, organized