Sr Technical Project Manager - Network Construction & Design Tools

Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You’ll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)

Job Summary

Responsible for managing complex projects through entire project lifecycle (inception, design, development, integration and test, trial and deployment). Act as a liaison with appropriate company personnel and vendors to ensure project compliance to standards, coordinate multiple complex high priority tasks. Assure feature and functionality and performance metrics requirements are defined. Initiate, facilitate and monitor specific inter/intra-departmental project progress and performance to assure quality and on time delivery. Ensure milestone dates are met. Monitor risks during various stages of the project and escalate issues to the appropriate level of management. Maintain project status reports on projects. Create and manage contingency plans for projects. Estimate and manage budgets. Evaluate impact change request against communicated timelines. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Acts as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment. May lead teams or projects and shares expertise.

Job Description

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The Technology + Product organization works at the intersection of media and technology and our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products and next-generation technologies that transform the customer experience.

About the Team:

As part of the larger CONNECT organization, also known as the Network team, the ION organization build the software that enables our teams in the field (whether construction, design, permitting, finance teams) to do their work to grow, build, improve the network. We are a team of software engineers, QA engineers, product owners, technical PMs, product operations folks, etc.  This team is being entrusted to build this software for the existing portfolio of applications (P2, IRIS, and OMNI), but is also seeing a lot of growth opportunity as many of the division applications migrate to HQ. 

What You’ll Do:

• Coordinate scoping and architecture review activities for initiated programs and follow process for program approval at architecture initiation board. 
• Create and track end to end project plan in conjunction with the lead engineer. 
• Track tasks and milestones across all parties, including vendors. 
• Coordinate, manage and drive test organization activities. 
• Facilitate bug triage, manage bug lists across vendors, track issue resolution with lead engineer. 
• Coordinate change request generation and tracking. 
• Make project scheduling decisions in conjunction with the lead engineer or facilitate conversations necessary for decision making. 
• Report on project's progress as required by product engineering management. 
• Identify and manage critical path and risk areas and create risk response and mitigation plans. 
• Report weekly (or as necessary) on any risks/issues. 
• Escalate issues as required to unblock open issues. 
• Work with other project managers to track and manage inter-project dependencies. 
• Communicate updates on major milestones, escalations and status to lead engineer and lead project manager. 
• Work with lead engineer and management to set project specific budget. 
• Project spend rates based on the budgets. 
• Manage within budgetary objectives set by manager, monitoring and controlling costs within functional area. 
• Mentor junior level project managers on the team. 
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance. 
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary. 
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned. 

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