Lead Technical Project Manager

Job Description

A Lead Technical Project Manager for automotive is responsible for defining, planning, and directing multiple enterprise level Software Development and Information Technology projects. The ideal candidate will bring previous experiences, good practices, and a collaborative attitude to help drive revenue growth and increased effectiveness in value and quality of software we create.

The successful candidate must have experience leading cross-functional teams in the planning, execution, and delivery of high-quality products to align schedules, improve communications, manage risks and identify and remove impediments. Proactively drive the full software development life cycle from inception through post-production utilizing a high level of knowledge and experience in blending traditional project management principles and practices with an Agile approach to fit large and complex projects. A solid technical background, keen analytical skills, proficiency at written communication, as well as interpersonal and organizational skills are required. The candidate will report to the Automotive Project Management Office (PMO).

The below outlines the principal work and responsibilities in the job and does not specify each and every task that might be performed.

Responsibilities

• Support Business Owners, Program and Product Managers with management of project scope, deliverables, and the inflow of new projects from inception to implementation.
• Manage and publish the prioritized backlog from TFS, ensuring overall priorities are up-to-date and work items are associated to the prioritized Initiatives, as well as manage the parking lot items that may potentially make it to the prioritized backlog.
• Facilitate forecasting & planning of new features and other backlog items with cross-functional teams (creative, data, engineering, fulfillment teams, vendors, and billing).
• Establish sprint & release plans using the PMO TFS Gantt chart and effectively monitor progress against project plans, identifying risks, issues, and mitigation strategies.
• Create and maintain project progress reports, including Executive Reporting, and other deliverables essential to project execution and control.
• Manage project scope, schedules, customer expectations and stakeholder communications by ensuring transparency and visibility of project progress, risks and impediments.
• Administer changes to the plan through effective participation in change control processes.
• Organize and facilitate working sessions across distributed scrum teams, such as Initiative refinement, dependency mapping, user story mapping, and release planning.
• Participate in peer reviews and inspections of requirements documentation and Scrum team sprint reviews to provide feedback on release items.
• Coordinate & track production releases, internal demos, client UATs, PHQ, dealer and client trainings.
• Ensure process and requirements documentations in Confluence, TFS and SharePoint are kept up-to-date.
• Exercise good judgement in selecting method & procedures in assigning work and coordinating activities of 3 to 4 other personnel on the team.
• Mentor and train new hires & other Technical Project Managers.
• Champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management.
• Foster and model a collaborative team environment driven to build great software while having fun.
• Perform other tasks as may be requested by your leadership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years as a Project Manager in Software Development or Information Technology
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required (Computer Science or closely related field preferred).
• Detail oriented with excellent negotiation, oral and written communication skills
• Solid analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands
• Able to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment
• Ability to lead software development projects and ensure objectives, goals, and commitments are met
• Strong knowledge of Project management "tools"  such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Team Foundation Server (TFS) or JIRA

"Plus" Skills:

• Automotive and Retail experience a plus
• Knowledge of CRM Applications, Content Management, Web, CSS, ASP.net, APIs, SQL and Oracle Databases or Salesforce.com

Salary Range: $100,000.00 - $120,000.00

Additional Information

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