Technical Project Manager

Job Description

Job RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Organizes and accelerates a group of related technology projects or activities across multiple

teams, aligning dependent organizations. Identify and remove blockers and always find the path

forward in challenging situations

2. Creates mechanisms to effectively report out and control execution. Recognizes complexity and

creates predictable delivery paths for large and/or complex efforts. Measurably improves,

streamlines, and/or eliminates excess processes. Utilizes cross organizational mechanisms to

describe and drive continuous improvements.

3. Drives execution of an outcome from inception through successful delivery through the full

stack of the services / domains, or, an outcome that spans multiple teams and integrations

across the enterprise.

4. Looked to as first point of contact for your team or area and the source of truth for status

providing the right information and associated data about the state of the project to the right

audience at the right time.

5. Understands the business strategy and design approaches within product, program or domain

with depth to be credible and effective with teams they work with. Can competently represent

team's services.

6. Keeps abreast of evolving technology landscape. Can ask the right questions to evaluate the

strengths and weaknesses of designs (scalability, latency, security, performance, data integrity,

etc.)

7. Works with ambiguity and with limited guidance. The business outcome, program, and/or

product strategy is defined, but nothing else is. Able to get the inertia out and the project in

motion or able to get the entropy out and the project into a calm and predictable delivery

pattern

8. Transform raw thoughts into clear and concise communications/instructions to the teams. Can

communicate with confidence 3+ levels up.

9. May work directly with external to the organization or external to technology providers that

support our implementation plans and roadmaps identifying opportunities to be faster, better

and cheaper.

10. Understands the needs of the engineers and technical operations teams who have to build,

maintain, and operate the services and technical assets

11. Regularly review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved data/mechanisms for

visibility ensuring your program stays aligned with organization objectives

12. Plays active role in mentoring and recruiting others

JOB SPECIFIC EXPERIENCES

1. Anticipate bottlenecks and adequately factor in contingency for unplanned delays

2. Determine if success metrics are in place and if not, you work to define them

3. Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them

4. Continuously assess development processes, test plans, and operations. You work with teams to

improve concurrent project delivery.

5. Streamline and/or eliminate excess process in any area of the architecture, production

operations environment, or business area where the same efforts (or issues) are repeated year-

over-year

6. Expert with scrum delivery