Technical Project Manager

Job Summary:

Oversee all project operations from inception to execution. The Technical Project Manager is responsible for maintaining budgets and enforcing deadlines. Responsibilities include ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.

Candidate should have a firm grasp of agile practices and the ability to effectively manage and mentor development teams. Should have excellent interpersonal, project management, and problem-solving skills.

Primary Responsibilities:
•Maintains organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.
•Directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.
•Completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments and data center.
•Verifies application results by conducting system audits of technologies implemented.
•Preserves assets by implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures.
•Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
•Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
•Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
•Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
•Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
•Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
•Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
•Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
•Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.

Qualifications:
•Degree in Computer Science, Business Management, Business Administration, or other related discipline
•Experience in the IT industry, including development work and customer interaction
•PMP Certification Preferred
•Excellent people and project management skills.
•Strong communication and presentation skills.
•Strong analytical and problem-solving skills