Job Title: Senior Technical Program/Project Manager
Direct Client: AT&T
Job ID: ATT00036796
Location: Dallas, TX 75202
Duration: 12+ Months with possible extensions
Interview Process: Phone/WebEx
Number of Positions: 1
Location: Prefer Dallas, TX; however open to other HUB locations. Will begin remote; however, upon the COVID-19 restrictions lifting candidate may need to return to the office. Will be determined at that time how often.
Required Skills:
Technical Program/ Project Management:
Software development:
Java 1.8+:
Spring/Spring boot/Jersey/Hibernate:
Junit/Mockito/Git:
Maven/Jenkins:
Docker/Kubernetes:
Jira/PowerBI:
Splunk / ELK Stack (Nice to have):
Dynatrace/Prometheus / Grafana (Nice to have):
MuleSoft (Nice to have):
Agile:
Top 5 Skills / Additional Job Posting Description Details *
• 10+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
• 8+ years of technical program management experience
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Be accountable for the end-to-end planning and execution of one or more programs and/or Agile teams.
• Manage interdependencies across a high number of scrum teams and organizations
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a team
• Shield the team from outside distractions and interference.
• Create, execute and communicate project plans and delivery commitments.
• Develop metrics and reports to help the team understand its health and progress and to set goals
• Set priorities, influence others, and manage customer expectations
• Facilitate discussions and conflict resolution
• Facilitate scrum of scrum meetings for 1 or more programs
• Drive large, complex projects to completion and execute roadmaps, while championing business and technical goals
• Communicate effectively at an executive and team level
• Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
• Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Improve team velocity and leverage tools like burn downs and capacity modeling to ensure that the teams are productive
• Lead and negotiate scope, schedule, budget, risks, deployments and communications for projects and initiatives.
• Appropriately manage / escalate project issues or risks
• Work with Product Owners to promote and contribute to the improvement of the product backlog.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Ability to facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-up meetings, reviews/demos, retrospectives, and other scrum ceremonies.
• Coach/Mentor team members to internalize Scrum and the Agile Principles
• Influence change at all levels to increase team and organization performance at a sustainable pace
• Significant understanding of Microservice patterns & concepts & their application-to-application design and business solutions
Strong preferred Technical Skills
• Java 1.8+
• Spring / Spring boot / Jersey / Hibernate
• Junit / Mockito
• Git
• Maven
• Jenkins
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Jira
• PowerBI
Nice to have Technical Skills
• Splunk / ELK Stack
• Dynatrace/Prometheus / Grafana
• MuleSoft
• Previous software development experience is a strong plus.
• Practical experience with software engineering best practices
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Technical Program Manager to lead AT&T digital initiatives. The ideal candidate for this position will have strong experience leading both programs and projects. This position directly influences cross-organizational teams and will require interaction with senior level management. Candidate should be comfortable working in a fast pace and changing environment.
Roles & Responsibilities:
1) Manages cross-functional teams through functional requirements gathering, implementation and validation through to initial launch or lifecycle of a service.
2) Defines functional requirements for wireless services.
3) Manages product development including product requirements gathering and definition, project planning, project management, budgeting, financial acumen, test design and execution, long term tactical roadmap and release management and planning.
4) Communicates product requirements to various organizations such as IT, Engineering, Supply Chain, Customer Care, Sales.
5) Leads vendor selection process, delivery, quality required.
6) Develops, maintains, and distributes, standard project management deliverables for the successful launch of new data applications and devices, including: implementation plan, project schedule, issues & action items log, meeting minutes, risks assessment and contingencies.