Technical Program Manager - XceedSearch.com

  Technical Program Manager         

Salary up to $130K plus 10% bonus

401K 6% match

3 weeks PTO 

Full Medical Dental Benefits

Hybrid role 3 in two Remote              

• We are looking for a candidate who has experience at non-enterprise size organizations in the last 5-7 years.
• If their primary role responsibilities in the last 5-7 years were more engineering or development than project management or product ownership based, we would not be interested.
• We also would like to steer away from individuals who have only had consulting roles in the past with short contract durations (6-12 months).

Position Summary

The Technical Program Manager will provide product ownership and project management to drive the execution of the modernization of an AWS Datawarehouse. The TPM will also provide project management oversight of workstreams dependent on the AWS data solution.

Duties

• Develops a clear product vision and strategy in collaboration with stakeholders, keeping in mind customer needs, market trends, and business goals. Makes critical decisions about the product, including feature scope, release timing, and trade-offs between competing priorities.
• Guides the work of the Data Engineering and Reporting team via roadmap planning, management of the intake and approval process, project and task prioritization, detailed project schedules, backlog maintenance, scope management, as well as resource tracking and reporting. Coordinates the team’s work with the ongoing modernization of the transactional database.
• Gathers input, feedback, and requirements from stakeholders and effectively communicates these to the team. Ensures that the final product meets quality standards and fulfills user expectations by working closely with the Quality Assurance team. Validates that the developed features meet the acceptance criteria of the business and align with the product vision before they are considered done.
• Identifies potential risks and issues related to product delivery and works with the development team to address them proactively.
• Understands company operations, applications, and the value they provide, and the interoperability and dependencies across technology functions. Stays up to date with industry trends, competitive products, and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for innovation.

Required Skills & Experience

• Both business and technical proficiency is a requirement for this role, with 3-5 years of experience in several areas, such as product ownership, business analysis, project management, software development, testing and test planning, or data analysis.
• Demonstrated business acumen, expectation management skills, and organizational and time management skills.
• Effective and professional communication skills as appropriate to the audience.
• Knowledge of database and data warehouse design principles.  Experience with legacy system transformation is a plus.
• Expertise with MS Excel, PowerPoint, Project and Visio; Jira; Agile methodology; dashboard design.

Personal Qualities

• A sense of ownership, urgency, and drive while planning the best course to achieve desired outcomes.
• Thorough, detail-oriented, factual, specific, accurate, and direct.
• Influential leadership skills – composed, courageous, accessible, recognizes the contributions of others, and leads by example.  Ready to share experience and knowledge with others.
• Self-starter, proactive, highly engaged, prompt to communicate, ready to immediately follow up, resolve, or escalate issues.
• Able to understand the “big picture” but comfortable with uncertainty and incomplete information while still moving with confidence, enthusiasm, and decisiveness.
• Curious, able to think strategically and system wide, understanding connections and ripple effects across the enterprise while still getting into the weeds.
• Tenacious, dogged, not satisfied until an issue or project is fully closed.

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, management, information systems, software engineering, or related field or a combination of education and experience.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and bonus structure, along with a 401K match program.
• An employee-first work environment that believes in a healthy work/life balance.
• Full benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Thank You
Arnold Avila
Xceed Search
(480) 419-1311
http://www.xceedsearch.com