Technical Project Manager (POS)

Technical Project Manager (POS)

Need to be in Seattle office 2x week. We are looking for a Technical Project Manager to contribute to our success by planning, developing, managing and implementing medium to large cross-divisional, multi-year projects using a structured project management methodology. Projects will have both business and technology focus with emphasis on leading from front on automation and CI/CD initiatives with DevOps mindset. This role will also provide support for high level technical design and architecture for various key implementations.

Bring Your Passion & Expertise

• Initiates, plans, controls and implements medium to large cross-divisional, multi-year programs and projects utilizing our project management practices
• Ensures overall deliverables are completed, including project charter, plan, schedule, requirements, design, development, testing, implementation, policies and procedures, standards, contracts, risks and issues resolutions
• Plans projects in detail, develops and manages project budgets, organizes project teams and works with resource managers to coordinate and align resource needs
• Identifies, evaluates and proactively manages cross-project interdependencies
• Manages progress of efforts and communicates status to sponsors, stakeholders on a regular basis and to senior leadership as needed
• Participates in strategic roadmap planning and may facilitate and provide materials for portfolio review meetings
• Excellent communication skills, able to flex style and work with all levels within the organization from individual contributors to Executives
• Proactively identify opportunities and contribute to continuous business process improvement efforts to help streamline and standardize workflow, communication, and resource efficiencies utilizing relative process improvement techniques and methodologies.
• Ensures smooth implementation of new technologies and vendor integrations by using their expertise on their assigned domains and interfaces
• May conduct technical walkthroughs with software engineers to ensure technical feasibility and standards across departments.
• Collaborates with operations support and other teams to ensure robust production operations

Qualifications

• 5-10 years Project Management experience
• 5-10 years' experience managing IT projects with expertise on Devops and CD/CI tools for Java Platform
• 5+ years' experience in Retail Systems, development and delivery (highly valued)
• Experience creating and executing implementation strategies for complex systems
• Strong relationship management skills and understanding of organizational change management
• Understanding of various delivery frameworks and practices (Waterfall, Agile, DevOps, Lean, etc.) and appropriate application of them
• Ability to apply highly complex principles, theories and concepts of the technical discipline and provide solutions to a wide range of complex tasks, projects and problem
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation, Docker & Container Management, Application Performance Engineering, Monitoring, performance, alerting, AWS Services and Architecture
• Ability to determine estimates of effort and impacts for a variety of solutions and influence technical discussions and decisions
• Experience in working with distributed Unix or Linux-based systems, J2EE Application Servers, clustered DB systems and source control systems