Tech Project Manager

Summary

The Technical Project Manager will be a key contributor to the planning and orchestration of major and minor projects in the IT project portfolio. The Teammate in this role will successfully partner with other strategy, development, and administrative groups to progress large projects in an enterprise class environment. The Technical Project Manager must be comfortable navigating and facilitating the full project lifecycle from initiation through completion in collaboration with technical analysts, development teams, stakeholders, and senior leadership. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
This description intends to describe the general nature and level of work performed by Teammates assigned to this job. It is not intended to include all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Communicate with all engaged members and stakeholders of the project about status, risk, impediments, scope, and timing throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Manage planning, scoping, and dependency identification of related projects in the IT project portfolio.
• Drive solutions to delivery through following traditional and agile project management approaches with a variety of teams and projects. Includes actions such as creating project plans, project communication plans, status reports, ensuring documentation is accurate, and coordinating the collaboration between all appropriate internal and external parties.
• Work collaboratively with project sponsor, project owner, stakeholders and development teams and their processes to ensure positive development culture is sustained throughout the project process.
• Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline a work plan.
• Establish work plans and staffing for project activities, iterations, or phases, and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
• Partner with the Quality Assurance team to coordinate and manage testing phase of the project cycle, including QA, UAT, Regression and other forms of testing as well as maintaining testing documentation and tracking status through resolution.
• Coordinate and lead project meetings to include defining and managing to a set agenda, summarizing meeting results, and clearly identifying action item owners and timelines requiring follow-up.
• Adhere to IT solution development lifecycle ensuring process and guideline governance through product delivery.
• Demonstrate capability of writing project proposals, vendor evaluations including RFI/RFPs, business case documentation, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to both IT and business stakeholders or professional peers, and working closely with upper management.
• Ability to understand and adapt traditional and agile frameworks and methodologies to fit environmental context focusing on the end goal of delivering business value.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation approaches that will allow progress despite deviation from defined solutions.
• Communicate actively with key stakeholders, project participants, and leadership regarding the project.
• Ensure that project goals are in line with business objectives and that project goals are achieved.
• Demonstrate expertise in setting and managing business expectations.
• Provide a distinctive blend of business, IT, and communication skills. This blend is vital because this is a highly visible position with substantial impact.
• Utilize effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment where this role may not directly control resources.
• Exhibit strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of business trust and confidence.
• Develop and execute project resource plans that ensure that the right people are in the right place doing the right things at the right time.
• Exemplify exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Fulfill mission statement by performing job duties with a high level of customer service while contributing to a positive team spirit.
• Special projects and other duties as assigned.
  

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education and/or Experience

Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university; or three to five years related job experience and/or training; project management, software engineering or business analyst experience in a professional environment