Job Title: Senior Technical Program/Project Manager
Job ID: 37923
Location: Dallas, TX 75202
Duration: 12+ Months with possible extensions
Interview Process: Phone/WebEx
Required Skills:
Technical Program/Project Management:
Prior development exp:
Microservices:
Java 1.8+:
Spring / Spring boot / Jersey / Hibernate:
Junit / Mockito:
Maven/Jenkins:
Docker/Kubernetes:
Jira:
Power BI:
Agile:
MuleSoft (Nice to have):
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
• Significant understanding of Microservice patterns & concepts & their application-to-application design and business solutions
• Define Microservices based architecture to support Digitization of AT&T systems
• Identify and design API layer for service registry, management, throttling, routing etc.
• Design system with the right mix of Monitoring, Alerting and Tracing
• Design Integration layer using a combination of approaches (services, messaging etc.) to support downstream data flow and also work in concert with existing systems
• Be accountable for the end-to-end planning and execution of one or more programs and/or Agile teams.
• 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
• Influence change at all levels to increase team and organization performance at a sustainable pace
Strong preferred Technical Skills
• Java 1.8+
• Spring / Spring boot / Jersey / Hibernate
• Junit / Mockito
• Git
• Maven
• Jenkins
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Jira
• Power BI
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
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.