Technical Project Manager - Parametric

About the role

The Technical Project Manager is a project management expert and has overall accountability for the technical project delivery roadmap and product success. The individual in this role will closely collaborate with engineering teams, business leaders, and other key stakeholders to set a vision, define priorities, execute an ambitious agenda, and be accountable for product results and evolution.

Primary Responsibilities

• Leading and managing large, complex enterprise-level projects
• Define, shape and drive product and technology roadmap, create clarity to guide plans and drive success.
• Meet business objectives by successfully designing, implementing, and guiding projects to completion.
• Create fast and effective solutions when issues arise.
• Document all aspects of work and present progress to leadership and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage relationships at all org levels.
• Develop a project plan, including goals, scope, schedule, and resources.
• Align program objectives with the company's strategic goals and ensure consistency with organizational priorities.
• Establish project tasks and milestones.
• Monitor the progress of projects and make updates when necessary.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and create progress reports.
• Collaborate with vendors, contractors, and external partners to ensure they meet program objectives and deliverables.
• Identify and mitigate risks and issues impacting program delivery and ensure projects meet deadlines and budgets.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues that arise during projects.
• Identify areas for improvement in project management practices.
• Engage with program/process owners, stakeholders and business partners as necessary to communicate project objectives, strategy, tactics, and ongoing progress.
• Drive alignment and build trust with stakeholders.
• Facilitate and enhance the communication and process between IT and the business to establish software engineering priorities, work direction, and best practices; includes working with key stakeholders in the business, business analysts, and developers.
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities while maintaining strong business relationships.
• Effective balance member, business, and technical goals with available resources (this is really about resource allocation).

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• A minimum of 3+ years of experience leading complex development and integration projects, strategy, Business Analysis or System analysis, preferably in the finance/asset management industry
• Excellent communication - both verbal and written - with technology and business partners to include strong discussion, debate and listening skills and the ability to look beyond obvious answers to understand impacts.
• Advanced experience working with Scaled Agile software development processes
• Demonstrated success leading and directing others to achieve measurable results.
• Ability to empathically understand and articulate user needs
• Demonstrated ability to articulate solution or product vision and/or customized solutions to meet business objectives
• Advanced skills using a variety of tools to document workflows and data mapping including but not limited to Miro/Lucid, Excel, SQL and Visio
• Understanding analysis and artifact goals throughout the solution lifecycle
• Ability to learn quickly and work in a changing environment and under tight deadlines
• Ability to independently manage personal timelines and meet tight deadlines
• Strong experience with Agile, Miro/Lucid, SQL, Excel, Visio, Balsamiq, Jira, Tableau
• Experience with AWS Step Functions and Camunda workflows tools