Senior Technical Project Manager Job Description
Senior technical project manager
provides tactical training, standard work and governance to global cross-functional teams and partner agencies in the internet of things, concepts and technologies.
Senior Technical Project Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Assist in defining project scope, goals and deliverables that support business processes in collaboration with other CDI and Customer stakeholders
Daily Management and coordination of all technical and logistical aspects of a project including timelines, risks, risk mitigation strategies, action items and change requests
Work with the Scrum Master to track user stories and correlate data to prepare weekly/monthly reports for management/business review
Leading and co-ordinating the scoping, technical requirements gathering, estimating and planning for single or multiple projects or work streams
Managing an agile software development process, working with Developers, Testers and Business Analysts
Translating scope and requirements of a technical nature to wider stakeholders of all levels
Documents and understands what the technical environment dependencies are for each project to support an end to end integrated environment
Facilitate sessions with Product Managers, internal and external stakeholders to analyze business and user needs and to deliver necessary artifacts (use cases, user stories, functional requirements specifications, UI designs, mockups, workflows)
Participate in the process of documenting technical best practice and standards for production of accessible assets
Act as a liaison with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis
Senior Technical Project Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Technical Project Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, PMI, CSM, ITIL, MS, PSM, JIRA, ACP, PM, CISM
Education for Senior Technical Project Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior technical project manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Project Management, Education, Business, Information Systems, Business/Administration, Information Technology, Management
Skills for Senior Technical Project Manager
Desired skills for senior technical project manager include:
Internet technologies and considered a subject matter expert in any relevant internet topic
Waterfall and Agile PM methodology
Business
JIRA
Marketing impact to business activities
Technical
Payment standards
Experience managing matriced cross functional teams
Internet technologies and concepts to support the project
System development methodologies
Desired experience for senior technical project manager includes:
Estimate resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
Effectively negotiate with other CDI managers for the acquisition of required personnel
Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and makes the appropriate recruitments recommendations if necessary during the project cycle
Identify communicates and resolves issues and conflicts within the project team
Identify and manages project dependencies and critical path
Track project milestones and deliverables using appropriate tools
Senior Technical Project Manager Examples
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Senior Technical Project Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of senior technical project manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior technical project manager
- Facilitate, communicate, collaborate, negotiate between customer and technical teams to bring features to closure
- To act as a first point of escalation and resolution for all problems, obstacles and opportunities on a project
- Support the multi-disciplined project teams and encourage strong team working both within and beyond the team
- Develop and manage project documentation, including
- Participate in the daily, sprint and retrospective sessions
- Developer/Manager of a portfolio of projects with multiple clients
- Work closely with Customers to gather requirements, manage project deliverable and exceed customer expectations
- Proactively communicate and manage project details to internal and vendors
- Provide regular status updates, manage project schedule, maintain and drive closure of Action registers, track content forecast and delivery
- Work closey with internal product owners to ensure customer require product requirements are documented and delivered on schedule
Qualifications for senior technical project manager
- Expert level knowledge of Agile/Iterative methodologies
- Agile Unified
- Demonstrated ability to motivate and guide team members and elimination of
- Roadblocks to ensure high team performance
- Strong knowledge of project tools
- Confluence, Pivotal Tracker or Rally
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Senior Technical Project Manager Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior technical project manager. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior technical project manager
- Facilitates resolution of technical issues
- Engage the required groups to plan and obtain estimates and commitments from all required groups for requested work
- Provide appropriate and timely performance feedback for project team members
- Supporting the Executive Product Manager in delivering their Product aspirations in a timely and cost effective manner
- Developing key relationships with internal teams and external suppliers to deliver a multi team solution where you will be required to influence roadmaps more often than have direct control of priorities
- Managing the wider project scope and stakeholders alongside the detail of the day to day
- Identifying and effectively communicating any resourcing requirements required to successfully deliver the Product Roadmap
- Reporting to the Vice President of Technology, the duties and responsibilities of the Sr
- Aggregate and track action items and key decisions from working sessions
- Must be flexible to travel between Los Angeles and Seattle 1-3 times per quarter
Qualifications for senior technical project manager
- Expert knowledge and experience with MS Project including critical path scheduling, resource loading and leveling, time reporting, earned value analysis
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software
- Previous experience as a Team Lead, Supervisor, Product Owner or Project
- Ability to set expectations, develop project plans, manage personal workload and
- Proven, successful history of enterprise level implementations and integrations
- Experience in an organization that adopts Agile
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a senior technical project manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior technical project manager
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence with admin experience setting up projects and training developers on JIRA and Confluence
- Management and guidance of internal technical functional areas
- Consult with stakeholders and review project proposals to determine goals, time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements and allotment of resources
- Present plans and proposals to executive management, persuading and negotiating for resources
- Manage the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and review vendor deliverables
- Prepare project status reports and keep team, management, clients and others informed of project status and related issues
- Analyze impacts to client change requests and findings from evaluations to determine potential impacts to other technologies or platforms
- Establishes formal mitigation plans for time/scope changes from original plan
- In the Project Manager role, leads complex initiatives across multiple functions and teams by planning, directing, and coordinating to the project objectives with consideration for risk
- Leads and contributes to the decision making process and facilitates conflict resolution
Qualifications for senior technical project manager
- Thorough knowledge and experience with project management processes and tools software development tools and methodologies including but not limited to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and Agile
- Experience in the media & entertainment industry is highly desired
- Understanding of managed service and offshore models and demonstrated ability of managing and tracking progress
- Software development life cycle methodologies and current technology industry best practices, ITIL
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related discipline
- Previous experience as a Team Lead, Supervisor, Product Owner or Project Manager
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Senior Technical Project Manager Job Description
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Our company is looking to fill the role of senior technical project manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior technical project manager
- A track record of technical project management within an engineering environment with a solid understanding of either the hardware, software or firmware space, covering full product lifecycle
- Resource allocation and management of technical team
- Defines and refines Agile metrics to understand team performance
- Work with members of the Conversant Product and Engineering teams to manage the most important organizational Initiatives to success
- Managing and supervising multiple projects, including complex and outsourced projects
- Provide project leadership to assigned team members
- Coordinate with management and project stakeholders to ensure projects are appropriately staffed
- Establish and maintain a positive and effective working relationship with senior management, internal departments, and external contacts in order to facilitate agreement on, and meet, project goals and objectives
- Create and maintain project plans and other associated project artifacts
- Monitor and report project status
Qualifications for senior technical project manager
- Minimum of 2 years project managing the development of TV applications
- Minimum of 2 years project managing projects that utilize an Online Video Platform
- CSM and/or PMP Desired
- Experience in IP based Internet in L3, L4 & L7
- Experience managing infrastructure projects in distributed locations creating infrastructure and PaaS solutions with in-house and outsourced teams
- Minimum one year experience in an Information Technology role (Operations, Development, Support)
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Senior Technical Project Manager Job Description
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Our company is looking to fill the role of senior technical project manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior technical project manager
- Represent TC technical teams in client meetings for scoping, requirements and project updates
- Manage risk by performing risk analysis and communicating project issues to the project team and escalate to stakeholders and management for resolution as necessary
- Proactively oversee project activities and work with management and project stakeholders to troubleshoot and insure quality resolution of project related problems
- Continuously review the effectiveness of current processes and procedures to identify and lead process improvement initiatives
- Accountable for revenue targets and billability goals
- Facilitates decision making with stakeholders, balancing the needs of different constituencies and facilitating consensus
- Proactively identifies risk areas and critical tasks to keep project on track
- Understands process, recognizing potential issues and consequences of changes during Software Development Lifecycle
- Development of detailed work plans for projects and supports project team members in the creation of a formal WBS for their work
- Accountability for project scope, timeline, budget and success measures
Qualifications for senior technical project manager
- Related certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- Knowledge of various HIT and Pharmacy Information Systems
- Extensive knowledge of complex project management tasks and ability to develop standards and processes for scheduling, administration and accounting
- Bachelor’s or Masters in computer science, engineering or related field
- Familiarity with large scale web services and applications
- Previous experience with cloud services and projects