Technical Project Manager IV

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking a Technical Project Manager IV. The Technical Project Manager (PM) has the overall responsibility of ensuring project success by managing the project scope, resources, budget, and technical deliverables. While leading the teams of business analysts, software engineers, architects, and test engineers, the PM will oversee the design, development, test, deployment, maintenance, and improvement of the software products. The PM will also be an active participant in negotiating requirements with stakeholders, identifying risks, managing schedules, and communicating with the project stakeholders on a regular cadence. PMs will be responsible for monthly forecasting, as well as presenting on key engagements to upper management.  As a Sr. PM, they will own their accounts and be responsible for all products/services delivered to their respective customers.

Responsibilities:

• Successfully lead complex, multi-phased projects by guiding cross-functional teams, business
  partners, and the development teams to define, scope, plan, and deliver SW and/or HW products
  and solutions. Oversee all aspects of new and existing projects from start to finish. Act as the
  single point of contact for all project activities, schedule, and status
• Develop and nurture key relationships with product management, development management and
  business partners. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to facilitate product releases and
  report project status. Foster an environment of collaboration, trust, and accountability for
  departmental and cross-functional teams.
• Manage product feature-function content, facilitating sizing activities with the technical team.
• Develop and maintain the master plan and schedule for multiple product releases. Develop
  product release schedules, committing those schedules to the business and ensuring timely
  execution
• Present project status and recommendations to management
• Identify and resolve problems, gaps, and challenges in engineering processes
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience or equivalent combination.
• Demonstrated Knowledge and experience of project management/Agile development
• The TPM will be responsible for:
  •  The teams agreed upon KPI numbers
  •  Generating high level estimates of the work for phase planning. This is not collecting numbers from others but understanding the solutions themselves to       generate these estimates
  • Working with Product Owners and BAs to review and enrich the descriptions and acceptance criteria. Identifying other need stories to fill gaps in the solution should also be covered by the TPMs role.
  • Project's adherence to the corporate SDLC and Agile Framework
  • Root cause of why a defect made it into the field and the corrective actions to prevent it again
  • Review and approval of the test plan, architecture and security review
  • Ability to communicate the requirements, architecture, product value to senior executives and new and customers
• Experience driving technical decisions in ambiguity.
• High sense of ownership, urgency, and collaboration.
• Identify requirements and design, scope, and communicate the needed work. Take ownership of the product experience.
• Coordinate and manage production schedules. This includes monitoring the velocity of the team and may include running daily stand-ups.
• Collaborate across disciplines to refine and iterate on product features.
• Optimize team processes to improve quality, engineering productivity, and responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities.
• Overcome obstacles by resolving issues, regardless of team boundaries, and identify and resolve teamwork issues.
• Engage and maintain consistent communication with all relevant parties until issues are resolved.
• Experience with development at a system architectural level
• Experience in defining and negotiating requirements with stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in technology departments
• Experience with lifecycle management in a fast-paced software environment.
• Ability to exercise technical judgment in solving software engineering challenges involving bug triage, source control, continuous integration, etc.
• Ability to be an influential member of a highly integrated team composed of both technical and non-technical members.
• Understands all aspects of production methodologies, project management, and has strong organizational and communication skills
• Must excel working in complex and ambiguous environments

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