Technical Project Manager Dallas, TX- Remote
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About the Job: We are seeking a
Technical Project Manager with a strong understanding of Agile Methodology projects to support our client. The right candidate will possess a passion for technology and the ability to understand and assess new technologies.
About You: This position will be a great fit for someone with a proven track record of driving enterprise-scale IT projects, managing multiple priorities simultaneously, setting timelines, holding people accountable and delivering projects on-time and on budget. Your leadership will help guide the completion of complex solutions created in an Agile environment. Experience developing healthcare applications is a great plus!
Responsibilities: Scrum needs: - Day-to-day facilitation of agile ceremonies
- Experience leading application development teams.
- Liaising with central teams to ensure work progresses when team has dependencies, including launching new clients; leading and enabling care hub production deployments
- Support and execute release planning activities, ensuring sprints are filled to adequate levels and acceptance criteria and are cleared with QA.
- Managing deployment needs that are technical in nature with third-party vendors to ensure necessary organizational milestones are met (including coordination; implementation timeline creation; risk elevation; etc.)
- Special project management assistance: supporting assessing impacts to the team and helping to ensure prompt execution when large-scale initiatives roll out across the organization, including corporate rebranding, IVR system changes, etc.
- Assessing and unblocking the team when disruptions to critical delivery timelines occur
Goals: - Project management/ scrum leaders can identify risks, take preventative action to minimize them, and liaise with external teams and vendors to push work forward.
- Scrum leader has the bandwidth to communicate proactively regarding capacity, and where and how our team can increase velocity based on how the team is progressing work on the roadmap
- The backlog is filled with refined stories that meet needs and are groomed up to 2+ sprints in advance such that we can pull items forward based on changes in bandwidth, complexity, etc. We can 'get out ahead' of the engineering team's capacity.
Minimum Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field
- Experience working with tight deadlines and handling escalations.
- 5+ years of related experience: managing projects and teams, working with tight deadlines and handling potential escalations, working with Machine Learning concepts
- Research experience plus
