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Technical Portfolio Manager (108042)
Electronic Arts
Madrid, , Spain
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Main Purpose of the Role
Act as Technical Portfolio Manager within EA Localization organization sited in Europe (Madrid, Spain) which provides worldwide localization and integration services.
This role represents a technical specialization of a Portfolio Manager role in which a technical background and expertise is key for an optimal performance and management of the portfolios assigned. They are expected to create and execute the technichal strategy for the localization of the portfolios assigned with the support of the manager according the existent procedures or methodologies and have at any time a proper knowledge of the diverse technical areas for which this role is accountable.
They will act as main technichal point of contact for the porfolios assigned and therefore they must appropiatly represent worldwide EA Localization in front of other teams involving management in case of risks or conflicts.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• Consistently demonstrate EA values and create a positive atmosphere that fosters the collaboration, motivation and high performance of the entire team.
Business Analysis orientation:
• Capture and understand business and technical needs of the portfolio assigned.
• Create and maintain technical localization plans to face the localization of the portfolio assigned.
• Along with management, create technical strategy plans to move and integrate the Studios assigned into the localization framework.
• Influence Studios to implement technical localization best practices across all titles
• Participate in the definition and run return of invesments and cost-benefit analysis to justify needs, investments and fundings.
• Participate in the negotiation and technical discussions with consultancy and professional services providers.
Project Management orientation:
• Act as an effective reporting and coordination link between Engineering teams, Studios, EA Loc teams and high management layers.
• Act as an effective reporting and coordination link between the Project Management and the Product Management. Actively participate in the on going priorizitation of the bussines needs as per project needs and schedules.
• Responsible for the technical delivery of the projects by influencing product development plans and close communication with Product Owners.
• Track, predict and report:
◦ schedule and cost deviation, report them and propose actions for an appropiate mitigation, correction or compromises. Redo cost analysis and/or schedule accordingly.
◦ issues and risks (i.e.: quality degradation), report them and propose actions for appropiate mitigation, correction or compromises.
• Maintain regular and effective communication (through presentation, meetings, email or phone) with internal, external and remote teams (sponsors, vendors or stakeholders)
• Actively participate in postmortem processes and collection of stakeholders feedback to measure satisfaction and/or distill future improvements and solutions needed to maximize stakeholders/partners’ satisfaction while managing their expectations.
Skills and Knowledge Required
• Technical background. University Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent educational or working background.
• Excellent Project Management, Bussiness Analysis and CRM skills.
• Excellent knowledge in the foundations of Software Engineering and Develoment Life Cycle: business and requirement analysis, design, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, quality management,… etc.
• Very good fluency in English (written and spoken)
• Very good communication skills (any format, any context)
• Good knowledge of different development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Prototyping, Extreme Programming,…)
Experience Required
Essential:
• 3+ years of professional experience in start to end Project Management (from conception to implementation, deployment and mantainance)
• 3+ years of professional experience in Business Analysis and/or Requirement Analysis.
• 3+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering projects (Software Development or IT Implementation/Deployment)
• Good and proven working experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, ...) and Agile Project Management.
• Good and proven experience in technological project negotiation and sales.
• Good and proven experience working in a multi-site and multi-cultural team.
Desirable:
• 2+ years of experience in Infrastructure or systems deployment.
• Technical experience in localisation projects or similar experience within the entertainment industry.
Behaviours/ Competencies:
• Excellent team player attitude.
• Excellent self-improvement and proactivity behaviors.
• Excellent achievement orientation. Attention to detail, focused on quality and customers/partners satisfaction.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent self-coordination and self-organisational skills.
• Good ability to create and maintain a positive and collaborative working atmosphere.
• Good ability to identify risks, problems or deviations
• Good ability to achieve results through others by coordinating work/tasks/people.
• Good mentoring capabilities.
• Good leadership capabilties.
• Good ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Good ability to prioritize and reach appropiate balance/compromises.
• Good ability to participate in decision making processes by offering constructive opinions and sound judgement.
• Good ability to apply existing processes and best practices. Ability to identify gaps or deficiencies and work with the team to adress them.