Technical Project Manager

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Summary

Join our team as a Technical Project Manager and lead your team(s) in Agile-based processes, ensuring clear communication and quality delivery. You will facilitate team productivity, remove impediments, and adapt to changing priorities. This 100% remote role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams, managing projects in Jira, and coordinating dependencies. You will track team velocity, resolve issues, and coach the development team on Data Org processes. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in a similar role, experience with Jira and Confluence, and a Scrum Master/Agile certification.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in a Technical PM or Scrum Master role, ideally having experience working in a technically challenging and complex environment
  • Experience simultaneously running multiple scrum teams distributed globally
  • Experience with Jira and Confluence
  • Experience supporting technical agile data engineering and platform projects in a cloud-based environment
  • Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate and understand/communicate technical issues
  • Bachelor’s degree in information systems, BI or Analytics or Engineering – or equivalent work experience
  • Scrum Master/Agile certification

Responsibilities

  • Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and other Technical Project Managers to support Data development delivery
  • Support the Data Org the work-intake triage process to ensure new requests are addressed in accordance with SLAs
  • Set-up and ensure maintenance of Programs, Epics, and Stories in Jira to appropriately manage the teams’ work through to completion
  • Help set project delivery commitments and determine impacts as a result of fluctuating priorities and resource availability
  • Coordinate dependencies between teams with other Scrum Masters
  • Track and report team velocity and manage Sprint capacity and ensure team is working efficiently towards Sprint goals
  • Resolve or escalate blocking impediments as necessary
  • Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint and release planning, backlog grooming and refinement sessions, sprint demos, retrospectives and other process meetings
  • Coordinate teams in troubleshooting and resolving production support issues which require cross-team coordination, especially those impacting customers
  • Work with Development managers to manage team capacity
  • Coach the development team and stakeholders on following Data Org processes and practices and ensure they are effectively implementing them. Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with AWS, Databricks, Salesforce Data Cloud

Benefits

100% Remote Work

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