Technical 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.

Project Management Process and Execution

• 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.
• Establish work plans and staffing for project activities, iterations, or phases, and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
• 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 throughout 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.
• 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.

Technical Leadership

• Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and consult with project staff to outline a work plan.
• 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.

Collaborative Responsibilities

• Communicate with all engaged members and stakeholders of the project about status, risk, impediments, scope, and timing throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Work collaboratively with the project sponsor, project owner, stakeholders and development teams and their processes to ensure positive development culture is sustained throughout the project process.
• Collaborate with the Quality Assurance team to coordinate testing phase of the project cycle, including QA, UAT, Regression and other forms of testing as well as ensuring testing materials/documentation are tracked for the project.
• Communicate actively with key stakeholders, project participants, and leadership regarding the project.
• Exemplify exceptional verbal and written communication skills.