Technical Project Manager - Harvey Nash : Job Details

Harvey Nash USA has been engaged to find a talented Senior TPM for an enterprise Financial Client.

A reasonable, good faith estimate of the minimum and maximum hourly wage for this position is $65/hr to $70/hr (Depending on Experience).

Benefits will be available, and details are available at the following link:

Job Title: Senior Technical Program Manager

Location: O'Fallon, MO

Duration: 24 Months Contract

Hybrid/Remote: Hybrid work schedule with 3 days a week in-person.

ROLE

Our TPMs conceptualize, rationalize, and drive multiple, simultaneous projects to deliver engineering work across the portfolio in our Scrum execution model. In this role, you may drive the execution of a feature through the full stack or may drive a project which spans multiple teams and integrations, reporting meaningful status along the way.

As a Senior TPM, you should be able to:

• Work across teams to organize and accelerate delivery by ensuring all teams are delivering in a coordinated manner, identifying and removing blockers, and always finding the path forward in challenging situations.

• Understand the business strategy and design approaches within product, program, or domain with depth to be credible and effective with teams you work with. Act as first point of contact for your team or area and the source of truth for status, providing the right information and associated data about the state of the project to the right audience at the right time.

• Regularly review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved data/mechanisms for visibility, ensuring your program stays aligned with organization objectives.

• Proactively manage all dependencies, ensuring all outputs are production ready at time of launch.

• Proactively identify risks & issues and ensure mitigation efforts are being carried out throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Keep abreast of evolving technology landscape. Can ask the right questions to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of designs (scalability, latency, security, performance, data integrity, etc.).

• Work with ambiguity and with limited guidance – able to get the inertia out and the project in motion.

ALL ABOUT YOU

• Demonstrated ability to operate with independence and autonomy.

• Experience defining and building cloud-native software products as a platform at scale with a deep understanding of those platforms' capabilities and underlying technologies.

• Demonstrated experience breaking down problems, organizing work, planning sprints, and delivering technical programs in agile delivery models (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)

• Proven track record of data driven decision-making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across teams

• Can communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity.

• Demonstrated experience building relationships, partnering with, and influencing dependent teams while commanding the respect of the individuals you work with across the organization.

• Huge plus if you have expertise in Payments, IaaS, PaaS, serverless technology, CI/CD, NoSQL databases, microservices APIs, and distributed systems operations in a DevOps model.

• BS in engineering, computer science, or related discipline.

• Technical program delivery experience including time developing and testing software.

Top required skills:

Ability to put together high-level timelines & end-to-end delivery plans using MS Project or comparable project management tool.

Familiarity with APIs, reading/understanding architecture documents and other diagrams (component diagrams, sequence diagrams, data flows, etc.)

Ability to perform data analysis and derive meaningful, data-driven reports for communicating project statuses.

Desired/nice to have skills:

Previous experience as a developer/programmer or in some other technical discipline (infra, IT, QE, etc.)

Scrum Master or RTE experience / experience working within agile methodology

Previous experience in financial or payments field