Technical Project Manager

Your Day to Day 

• Manage project and non-project work across all Solution Delivery work streams, including large projects, smaller enhancements, bug fixes, testing, deployments, and compliance activities. 
• Proactively follow up with task owners and stakeholders, driving progress, communication, and escalation as necessary. 
• Design, implement, and maintain unified status reporting, issue and risk management processes, and work management tooling. 
• Manage changes in project scope including documenting and explaining implications of changes so they are clearly understood and approved.
• Ensure risks (technical and operational) associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled. 
• Manage interdependencies of work within a project. 
• Identify and remove obstacles and impediments to ensure team objectives are met. 
• Drive team and leadership adoption of Azure DevOps as the source of truth for all active work, system requirements, test plans, and status and burndown reporting. 
• Serve as scrum master for functional and technical teams, scheduling and running backlog grooming sessions, sprint planning meetings, daily standups, retrospectives, and additional meetings as needed.
• Track team velocity to ensure accuracy of future planning. 
• Develop project budgets in collaboration with IT leadership. 
• Contribute thought leadership and drive IT process maturity and best practices, collaborating with other IT leaders to implement agile development processes at scale. 

Required Skills 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Information Systems, or related 
• PMP and/or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification strongly preferred 
• Demonstrated use of tools and techniques that may include SDLC knowledge, project management methodology, technical acumen, and software delivery methods. 
• Proven successful experience in leading and driving complex, time critical software development projects and able to manage multiple projects
• Demonstrated proficiency with agile development methodologies and techniques 
• Experience implementing Scaled Agile or similar frameworks 
• 5 years of experience building and maintaining agile and waterfall processes in Azure DevOps (preferred), JIRA, or similar tools 
• 3 years of experience implementing or managing large enterprise systems (ERP, CRM) 
• Specific experience with Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (formerly Dynamics AX) is a significant plus
• Experience with software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations. 
• Strong interpersonal skills with the proven ability to effectively engage and influence at all levels, and ability to effectively handle crucial conversations and manage conflict resolution 
• Highly self-motivated and self-directed 
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment