Role: Technical PM
Location: Dallas, Texas
Office: Onsite 3 days a week, including either Monday or Friday and every Wednesday
Contract: 6 months + regular extensions
Primary responsibilities of the Technical Project Manager will include managing strategic Data Management projects, identifying and managing resolutions to program issues and risks, facilitating daily scrums and status meetings, managing project schedules and deliverables, identifying roadblocks and addressing changes in scope/budget using Agile methodologies. This candidate will also be responsible for working closely with the Data Management Function Lead on project timelines and resource requirements.
Responsibilities
Manage strategic Data Management projects across Technology teams in a collaborative and strategic manner. Looking for someone with many years of expereince who has managed a lot of tech delivery implementation projects and who can manage multiple projects at a time.
- Experience working with issues and escalations
- Identify, document, resolve, mitigate, and escalate program issues and risks.
- Facilitate meetings and discussions with external vendors, project teams and leadership, in order to remove roadblocks or address changes in scope, schedule or budget.
- Manage projects using Agile methodologies, facilitate daily Scrum meetings with project team members and facilitate on-going status meetings with other IT teams to ensure timelines are being met and deliverables are as expected.
- Communicate and document status and project plans clearly and accurately to both functional and program leadership when required.
- Ensure technical solutions are sustainable and follow best practices, working closely with the DM Architects and project team members.
- Work closely with DM Function Lead on project timelines, detailed deliverables and resource allocations. Escalate project / solution issues to the DM Function Lead for quick resolution.
Qualifications
- 4+ years working as a Technical Project Manager on larger scale projects
- 4+ years working on Agile projects, including serving as a Scrum Master
- SQL experience a plus
- Working knowledge and experience with JIRA, Confluence, Project, and Visio
- Ability to align project tasks and technical solution with the Business Requirements
- Strong Meeting Facilitator
- Must be able to multi-task effectively
- Great organizational skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong collaboration and troubleshooting skills
- A highly entrepreneurial and flexible mindset
- Ability to create and give executive-level presentations