W2// Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

Addison, TX ( 5 days onsite)

Long term contract

About the Team:

Client is pioneering in software and OS development for our Smart TV. We are actively looking for a smart, attention to detail and good with critical thinking Technical Project Manager to participate in software development process and define our roadmap.

Qualifications & Responsibilities

• Driving multi-functional efforts across major technical fields.
• Excellent in communication, writing and self-starter
• Knowledge of software engineering standard methodologies and related dependencies
• Strong leadership skills and ability to inspire team members
• Familiarity of SDLC
• Solid understanding of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and Kanban development methodologies
• Solid understanding of microservices, containerized applications, DB, API and system architecture
• Good understanding of Azure cloud.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with many different personality types
• 5+ years demonstrate ability in engineering development and project management are required
• Bachelor''s Degree in Computer Sciences, Information Systems, or similar
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced, multifaceted environment
• Excellent planning, time management, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Excellent with a project management tool is necessary, experience with JIRA & Confluence
• Partner with engineering teams throughout feature development from architecture, design, implementation, and validation
• Own roadmap, priorities, prioritization, and timelines for technologies
• Solid understanding of code repositories (Github/BitBucket)
• Client is looking for a proactive and forward-thinking technical project manager to enhance existing operations and platform projects
• In this hands-on role, you will help manage implementation efforts of our operations platforms, monitoring and leading engineering teams to ensure milestones and deadlines are met
• Provide outstanding leadership to program team to deliver projects/programs timely, with high quality while achieving excellent results
• Perform overall program-level planning & lead program execution of interdependent projects, and drive effective and accurate status reporting
• Be responsible for the identification of risks and issues, and development of risk mitigation strategies and associated processes
• Identify critical partners and required engagement model and handle effective decision- making with leadership/engineering teams
• Supervise overall roadmap, identify and report potential obstacles such as scope creep, resource and personnel shortfalls, and problems with schedule, and release delays
• Conduct data analysis to deliver insights for Engineering Managers
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills to engineers, managers, and execs
• Proactively identify, prioritize, and drive resolution to program issues
• Help the team with ongoing improvements to the program management processes