Technical Project Manager -Vendor Integration Lead

Role: Technical Project Manager Vendor Integration
Location: Minneapolis or Denver
Term: Full Time

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Vendor Management

Technical Project Management

Dependency Management

RAID Management

Release Planning

Governance & Reporting

Executive Communication

Data Quality Frameworks

Event-Driven Architectures

Enterprise Integration Patterns

API & Web Services

Middleware Platforms

System Integration Testing

Data Mapping & Interfaces

End-to-End Solution Delivery

Stakeholder Management

Negotiation & Influencing

Problem Solving

Conflict Resolution

Cross-functional Leadership

Roles & Responsibilities

Act as the primary point of contact for all vendor applications interfacing with the core enterprise platform.

Establish delivery plans, milestones, and integration schedules with vendors.

Monitor vendor progress against commitments and proactively manage schedule variances.

Ensure vendors provide accurate status reporting, deliverables, and risk assessments.

Escalate delivery issues and coordinate remediation plans to avoid program impacts.

Collaborate with business, platform, and integration teams to communicate functional and technical

requirements to vendors.

Ensure vendor solutions align with approved business processes, architecture standards, and integration

patterns.

Facilitate requirement clarification sessions and design reviews.

Validate completeness of vendor requirements traceability and solution documentation.

Coordinate end-to-end interface development between vendor applications and core enterprise systems.

Track integration dependencies, interface specifications, data mapping, and API/service development

activities.

Ensure coordination of SIT, UAT, performance, and cutover activities involving vendor systems.

Manage cross-system issue resolution during testing and deployment phases.

Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies).

Conduct regular vendor governance and status meetings.

Develop executive-ready status reports highlighting schedule, scope, risks, and dependency impacts.

Support steering committee reviews and program leadership updates.

Ensure vendor participation in test planning and execution activities.

Track defect resolution and readiness criteria.

Coordinate environment, test data, and release requirements.

Support production cutover planning and hypercare activities.

Work across multiple stakeholders including business teams, implementation partners, system

integrators, architecture teams, infrastructure teams, and application vendors.

Build strong relationships to facilitate issue resolution and decision-making.

Manage communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders