Principal Technical Project Manager – Permanent – Orlando, FL – $165,000 - $185,000.
The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship not available.
Our client is seeking a Principal Technical Project Manager in Orlando, FL.
Role Description
The Principal Technical Project Manager is responsible for all aspects of project management for large programs and projects. This role will report to the Senior Manager, Technology Project Management within the 3PO team (Portfolio, Program, and Project Organization).
What You Will Do
• Act as a key leader for a high-priority, multi-site strategic program
o Confidently lead and drive cross-functional projects, and individual project tracks through full delivery life cycle ensuring project is delivered timely and on-budget.
o Work with engineering teams, including Software Engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and leadership to establish processes across all program areas that will ensure success on high priority business initiatives and improve efficiency.
o Lead and direct more junior technical project managers in the execution of their work during the project lifecycle
o Work with business leaders and key stakeholders to support engineering efforts for projects within a program
• Project Leadership, Planning and Execution
o Lead and manage large-scale, complex programs and/or projects, ensuring seamless collaboration across various teams and workstreams.
o Anticipate risks and develop mitigation plans
o Maintain accurate project documentation, including: RAID log, scope, project plans, budget, etc.
o Articulate a technical solution into business strategy and understand the big picture as it relates to business value.
• Financial Management
o Reconcile project actuals and determine forecast course corrections
o Achieve a detailed understanding of how project is billed, including changes to forecast
o Maintain up-to-date budget documentation
o Proactively communicate forecast budget or changes to leadership
• Project Resource Management
o Align resource capacity maps to project plans accounting for cross-project dependencies
o Drive integration with resource managers, delivery managers and leadership
o Monitor resource capacity, balancing work and budget (over/under)
• Risk Management & Problem Solving
o Manage scope changes and variances, assess impact to timeline and budget, and communicate
o Proactively collaborate and identify solutions to as unexpected issues arise to maintain progress
o Provide transparent communication of risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, scope change, impacts and solutions
• Stakeholder Communication & Management
o Drive stakeholder coordination and engagement to ensure understanding of project requirements, scope, goals, priorities and timelines.
o Engage stakeholders to ensure decision and change management processes are followed
o Create and own communication plan & cadence of project meetings
o Manage stakeholder expectations, build strong relationships and trust
• Transparent Project Reporting
o Identify health / progress metrics
o Maintain meeting minutes, including purpose, agenda and deliverables and progress towards goals/ milestones
o Prepare and distribute weekly status updates
o Enable data-driven storytelling with Data visualization
o Prepare and facilitate project status presentations, dashboards, risk assessments and data-driven storytelling for leadership and executives
Skills & Requirements
What are the top Three – Five Skills?
• 10 + years of technical project / program management experience with at least 5 years in an enterprise environment (commerce strongly preferred - ie. product / retail / pricing commerce)
• Bachelor’s Degree Required / Masters Preferred
• PMP Certification
• Agile Certifications: SAFe
• Strong technical experience – Understanding of Cloud, APIs, platform dependencies, software development lifecycle, engineering and /or product development
• Extensive and proven - Release Strategy Experience – PI Planning (specifically around Scheduling - they're coordinating over 1000 people with 30 different ongoing projects)
• Demonstrated Executive level presentation experience
• Enterprise Program Portfolio
• Tools:
o Office productivity software, including Microsoft suite, Keynote, Smartsheet,
o Project management software, including MyPPM (Clarity), MyJira
o Reporting tools, including Tableau, PowerBI
Pluses, nice to haves?
• Additional Agile Certifications
Benefits/Other Compensation:
Medical, Dental, Life Insurance, 401K.
Why Hays?
You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there’s a position you really want, you’re fully prepared to get it.
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