Role Overview:This Senior Technical Project Manager (Sr. TPM) role involves leading Scrum and Kanban teams, creating project plans, reporting project status to executives, and coordinating software releases. The successful candidate will support complex strategic technology projects, ensuring high-quality delivery with an emphasis on meeting product/platform deadlines and goals, all within an Agile framework.
Key Responsibilities: - Build and lead cross-functional project teams, setting expectations and ensuring necessary resources and support.
- Collaborate closely with the Product Owner and team to maintain and prioritize the product backlog.
- Facilitate Agile processes, ensuring the framework is understood and correctly applied by the team.
- Capture and utilize Agile metrics and feedback for continuous team improvement.
- Monitor project scope to prevent scope creep and make necessary adjustments.
- Coach and mentor teams, Technical Project Managers, and Product Owners on roles and responsibilities, providing training sessions and workshops on Agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
Required Skills: - Project Management discipline, methodology, and tools.
- Agile framework using Scrum and Kanban team methodologies.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
- Ability to build and lead cross-functional project teams.
- Strong collaboration skills with Product Owners.
- Experience with project status reporting to executives.
Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience, with 1.5 years in Project Management.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
- 6-8 years of experience required.
Preferred Skills: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
- 5 years of project management experience, 3 years in Agile framework.
- PM Certification.
- Ability to build effective and productive relationships with clients and internal resources.
- Ability to communicate and proactively manage project status, milestones, action items, risks, mitigation plans, and issues.
- Frequent independent decision-making ability to manage changing, competing, and conflicting priorities.
- Financial management skills to analyze project budgets, drive savings, and forecast revenue.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, Smartsheets, and MS tools.
- Strong facilitation skills in a team environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Composure and ability to handle pressure and deadlines.
- Agile Way of Working.
