Position: Technical Project Manager

Location: New York, Phoenix, AZ - Onsite

Duration: Long Term Contract

Skills: JIRA, Microsoft Office Suite, Mainframe

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate complex business objectives into features, working closely with engineering to provide the information required for those teams to successfully deliver software products.
• Ensure what the team builds is aligned with what is needed to achieve the desired outcomes.
• Lead refinement, and own/prioritize the team backlog.
• Execute agile methodologies with collaboration in a dynamic product development environment.
• Maintain the product backlog and ensure user stories are aligned to underlying product outcomes.
• Support the Product Manager(s) to ensure in the identification of technical problems, and devise solutions as they relate to the current and future business environment.
• Participate in retrospectives to ensure lessons learned are carried forward in subsequent development activities •
• Lead the team in defining what needs to change on the platform to support a particular business feature (impact analysis / approach definition).
• Manage team capacity by prioritizing / planning work through Rally stories and project future capacity needs based on pipeline work.
• Ensure feature refinement conforms to definition of ready, and acceptance test criteria is completed to definition of done.
• Foster and contribute to a culture of ownership, follow-through, and collaboration by adopting a mindset of doing whatever it takes to make the team successful.
• Identify risks, challenges, opportunities, and business integration needs. • Enable cross-functional collaboration with relevant teams within the product scope.
• Prioritize and maintain the sprint backlog consistent with the Outcomes and Product Roadmap and perform story elaboration with the implementation team.
• Work closely with the design and technology teams to develop, test and deliver the defined capabilities and rapidly iterate new solutions.
• Review/demonstrate sprint-related or general functionality with external partners and customers.
• Coordinate communication and facilitates resolution of risks, issues, and changes tied to the product backlog.
• Create documentation which identifies and highlights gaps in the end user experience from production launches.
• Ensure that the appropriate tracking and reporting is in place to monitor performance post launch to evaluate future investment.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $60.00 - $65.00 per hour

Experience level:

• 7 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Technical project management: 8 years (Required)
• Mainframe: 5 years (Required)
• Java: 4 years (Required)
• Jira: 5 years (Required)
• Rally: 4 years (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Phoenix, AZ 85003 (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Phoenix, AZ 85003: Relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Work Location: In person