Business Intelligence Technical Project Manager -

Unclassified - Phoenix, AZ

Full-time

Phoenix, AZ

About the position

The Technical Project Manager will play a pivotal role in driving integrated teams to deliver technology solutions that support key product initiatives. This position requires close collaboration with product owners, architects, engineers, and quality assurance teams to ensure that all aspects of the project are executed effectively. The Technical Project Manager will work within and across various business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases, ensuring that all deliverables meet the required standards of quality and timeliness. In this role, the Technical Project Manager will manage and track team velocity, financials, and other key performance indicators (KPIs) in relation to the project plan and published progress reports. They will be responsible for assigning development resources to activities and monitoring performance across different resource channels. Additionally, the Technical Project Manager will maintain a dependency plan between planned sprints across engineering, infrastructure, and third-party vendors, ensuring that all dependencies are managed effectively. The Technical Project Manager will also be tasked with managing and appropriately escalating delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to product development initiatives. They may perform hands-on reviews of product backlogs, designs, code, test scripts, and results to address any delivery impediments or product quality issues. Conducting daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint will be essential to ensure that the team is continuously learning and improving from past experiences. Furthermore, the Technical Project Manager is expected to identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies and build strong relationships with business and technology partners, addressing and resolving any issues that may arise.

Responsibilities

• Drives integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product owners, architects, engineers, and quality assurance.
• Works within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases.
• Manages and tracks team velocity, financials, and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports.
• Assigns development resources to activities, and monitors performance across resource channels.
• Maintains dependency plan between planned sprints across engineering, infrastructure, and third parties.
• Manages, and appropriately escalates, 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.
• Ensures deliverables across engineering teams are high quality and clearly documented.
• Conducts daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint, and ensures that the team is continuously learning from the past.
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.
• Builds strong relationships with Business & Technology Partners.
• Expected to identify, assess and resolve business partners' issues and provide quality solutions and alternatives.

Requirements

• 6+ years of technical project management experience.
• Deep understanding of all aspects of software design with a demonstrated track record of increasing responsibility.
• Experience in BI development with some hands-on experience with Microstrategy and/or Informatica and ability to review & help drive solutions with team members.
• Experience managing Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development teams to deliver technology solutions that meet customer expectations for timeliness and quality.
• Experience managing project budgets and reporting.
• Excellent oral and written communication 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.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience, is preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• PMI certification is a plus.
• Scrum Master certification is a plus.
• Experience using Rally agile delivery management platform is a plus.
• Experience with object-oriented design and coding skills is a plus.