Technical Project Manager

Job Description:

• Technical Program Manager
• In this role, candidates will have the opportunity to demonstrate your technical chops, while defining and driving program initiatives and using your technical knowledge to work with the engineering teams to deliver.
• Candidates will need to be a smart risk taker, who can deliver big ideas as well as transform them into scalable programs.
• This position has exposure to senior members of the organization, where candidates would be preparing documentation for senior executives and align roadmaps with organizational objectives.

Role Responsibilities:

• Accountable for managing the lifecycle for a cross functional body of work that has a long-term positive impact on the company
• Establish collaborative and productive relationships with product management, governance, UX design, vendors and other supporting teams.
• Foster an environment of engineering excellence and innovation.
• Insist on designing to the edge.
• Works closely with development teams to build and launch new products, features and programs.
• Define and organize the program, outline tenets, analyze data, drive performance improvements, and influence resource allocation for all stages of execution (from ideation to delivery)
• Be the scrum master for your team.
• Own planning, standups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of your sprints.
• Removes blockers and always find the path forward in challenging situations
• Keep technical debt in check.
• Ensure teams are building using modern practices and tools.
• Recognize and act of your responsibility for driving change for the entire development community.
• Cultivate operational excellence within your teams.
• Insist that your teams provide timely resolution of identified production defects.
• Understand service level agreements (SLA) and how your systems are performing in relation to them.
• Operate successfully in ambiguous environments.
• Communicate upward and outward.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (preferably computer science) or equivalent experience
• 4 plus years of software engineering, systems engineering or similar experience, in addition to 1-2 years of project/program management experience and working directly with software development teams.
• Communication skills and experience working with technical management teams.
• Organizational and coordination skills along with multi-tasking capabilities to get things done in an environment.
• Ability to motivate and focus a collaboration to reach challenging goals.
• Interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within a diverse, cross-functional team.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations.
• Experience delivering with an agile methodology required

Note:

• Technical Program Manager – US Personal Banking
• 10 roles (C12 level) at $90 per hour
• COVID-19 considerations: All individuals working on-site must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19
• At client, client believes in using the power of modern engineering technologies and practices to improve people’s lives.
• Increasingly, with the adoption of smart phones and watches and the cloud-based computing solutions that back them, individuals carry their compute capabilities on their person allowing them to manage the transactions that make up their lives in the moment and as they see fit.
• Client’s mobile first banking and data strategy was established to ensure that client embrace this change, leap frogging traditional banking paradigms to drive the creation of the bank of tomorrow.
• No mean feat.
• To advance this change the client’s Technology organization has been designed to ensure that client’s customers always have the very best capabilities the financial industry has to offer available at their fingertips by creating an ecosystem of collaborative financial web services.
• At client, client believe in the bank of tomorrow.
• Client believes ruthless backlog prioritization, incremental delivery and short-interval scheduling are the tools that will take us there.
• Client is searching for a certain kind of person who is excited by the idea of shipping software products into production.
• Are you technical?
• Are you a problem solver at heart?
• Are you passionate about helping those around you be more effective?
• Do you think about technology as a way to increase efficiency and change how business operates?
• We are looking for candidates that share client’s passion for tackling complexity head-on, to help build platforms that can scale through multiple orders of magnitude.
• As a Technical Program Manager, candidates will play a key role within engineering, driving huge projects that span the organization.
• Candidates are accountable for the planning, execution, and delivery of projects from inception to completion, related to an existing technology product or program.
• Candidates proactively manage the end-to-end delivery of engineering work through the Digital engineering organization and all dependent organizations, reporting out progress, ensuring dependencies are covered.
• Candidate operates between teams and architectures overseeing the gaps between teams, processes, and systems, while removing all blocking issues leading to a successful delivery.
• Candidates should be comfortable with ambiguity with a desire to create, iterate and improve.