Technical Project Manager
Addison, TX( 5 days onsite)
Long term contract
About the Team:
Client is pioneering in software and OS development for our Smart TV. We are actively looking for a smart, attention to detail and good with critical thinking Technical Project Manager to participate in software development process and define our roadmap.
Qualifications:
- Driving multi-functional efforts across major technical fields: SW, HW, Product, and QA
- Excellent in communication, writing and self starter
- Knowledge of software engineering standard methodologies and related dependencies
- Strong leadership skills and ability to inspire team members
- Solid understanding of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and Kanban development methodologies
- Good understanding of OS systems, media, and system architecture
- Sound understanding of UX and UI development
- Solid understanding of API
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with many different personality types
- 5+ years demonstrate ability in engineering development and project management are required
- Bachelor''s Degree in Computer Sciences, Information Systems, or similar
- Ability to work well in a fast-paced, multifaceted environment
- Excellent planning, time management, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Excellent with a project management tool is necessary, experience with JIRA & Confluence
- Partner with engineering teams throughout feature development from architecture, design, implementation, and validation
- Own roadmap, priorities, prioritization, and timelines for technologies
- Solid understanding of code repositories (Github/BitBucket) and build process
Responsibilities:
- Client is looking for a proactive and forward-thinking technical project manager to enhance existing operations and platform projects
- In this hands-on role, you will help manage implementation efforts of our operations platforms, monitoring and leading engineering teams to ensure milestones and deadlines are met
- Run and lead engineering team to deliver products and solutions for sophisticated embedded systems
- Provide outstanding leadership to program team to deliver projects/programs timely, with high quality while achieving excellent results
- Perform overall program-level planning & lead program execution of interdependent projects, and drive effective and accurate status reporting
- Be responsible for the identification of risks and issues, and development of risk mitigation strategies and associated processes
- Identify critical partners and required engagement model and handle effective decision- making with leadership/engineering teams
- Supervise overall roadmap, identify and report potential obstacles such as scope creep, resource and personnel shortfalls, and problems with schedule, and release delays
- Communicate with related parties with software engineers, product managers, and development teams
- Conduct data analysis to deliver insights for Engineering Managers
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills to engineers, managers, and execs
- Identifying risks, developing mitigation strategies, and facilitating resolutions
- Proactively identify, prioritize, and drive resolution to program issues
- Help the team with ongoing improvements to the program management processes
- Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Marketing teams