Technical Project Manager

Role - Technical Project Manager

Location – Arlington, VA

FTE

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Plan and manage a group of related technology projects or activities in a coordinated way from inception through successful delivery

Experience in reporting to senior management

Deep understanding of the design approaches and technologies utilized in your area

Focus on customer experience, the build and delivery processes and the problems to be solved

Work across multiple scrum teams (may be cross-cutting across products, scrum teams, and/or technologies or work may be vertically focused on a single product or feature set)

Align dependent organizations and remove/mitigate all blocking issues

Work with limited guidance, seeking guidance as needed because the product and delivery strategy is defined. The design is not.

Deep understanding of the business and technical requirements for the solutions being built

Understand the needs of the engineers and technical operations teams who have to build, maintain, and operate the system for the life of the system

Recognize complex designs and propose simplified solutions by working with software design engineers, principals and TPMs

Help customers and the engineering teams make trade-off decisions by considering all of the data including business goals, technical platform strategy, customer experience and maintainability. You identify blocking issues and manage their resolution.

Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels

Write documentation as required

Partner with industry vendors that provide technology or user experience design components that support our architecture and work with vendors on our implementation plans and roadmaps identifying partnership opportunities to increase our development velocity and our learnings

Communicate role up of project issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner for senior leadership consumption, escalating blocking issues when appropriate

Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, identify, assess, track and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels

Work across teams to optimize processes

Regularly review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved data/mechanisms for visibility ensuring your program stays aligned with organization objectives

Manage programs to meet its stated objectives.

Job Type: Full Time Job Category: IT

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