W2 Position_Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

Local to Phoenix, AZ - hybrid schedule

Looking for a Project Manager or Program Manager with SAFe experience. SAFe experience is required along with excellent communication skills. Candidates must be local to Phoenix, AZ as this is a hybrid schedule role.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Looking for a Project Manager or Program Manager with SAFe experience. SAFe experience is required along with excellent communication skills. The role is onsite hybrid schedule in Phoenix, AZ so candidates will need to be local.

• Drives coordinated teams, driving technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product owners, architects, engineers, and quality assurance

• Partners with Product Management team(s) to develop viable roadmaps for platforms and capabilities within a portfolio to ensure that the full potential of a product can be realized

• Coordinates execution of development projects from initiation through release, using SDLC methodologies and Agile/Scrum concepts.

• Works within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and complete the development schedule for major product releases

• Adopts SDLC methods, Agile values, principles

• Manages and supervises team velocity, financials, and other critical metrics in relation to the plan and published progress reports

• Maintains dependency plan between planned sprints across engineering, infrastructure, and third-parties

• Handles and appropriately raises delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the product development initiatives

• May perform hands on reviews of product backlog, designs, code, test scripts and results in addressing delivery impediments or product quality issues.

• Track iteration progress, contributes to design discussions and issue resolution and removes obstacles to ensure iteration commitments are met.

• Monitors and ensures compliance with SDLC standards, including ensuring deliverables across engineering teams are high-quality and clearly documented.

• Provides executive level updates at the program level to key leaders to showcase the health of the overall program and demonstrates a willingness to lead teams to sustainable solutions that scale appropriately within the enterprise

• Experience managing Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development teams to deliver technology solutions on that meet customer expectations for timeliness and quality

• Experience managing project budgets and reporting while ensuring compliance with Rally and Agile delivery platform

• Excellent oral and written interpersonal skills; Ability to effectively communicate across third parties and technical and business product managers

• Ability to get industry leading solutions to market efficiently and effectively

• Experience in clarifying objectives, dealing with ambiguity/under-defined problems, advocating for simplification, and influencing teams

• Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation

• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working softwar