Principal Technical Project Manager

Hays - Tallahassee, FL

Full-time - Principal

Tallahassee, FL

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Principal Technical Project Manager is responsible for overseeing all aspects of project management for large-scale programs and projects within the 3PO team. This role involves leading complex initiatives, ensuring collaboration across teams, managing risks, and maintaining project documentation. The position requires a strong understanding of technical solutions and their alignment with business strategies, as well as effective communication with stakeholders and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage large-scale, complex programs and/or projects.
• Anticipate risks and develop mitigation plans.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, including RAID log, scope, project plans, and budget.
• Articulate a technical solution into business strategy and understand the big picture as it relates to business value.
• Reconcile project actuals and determine forecast course corrections.
• Achieve a detailed understanding of how project is billed, including changes to forecast.
• Maintain up-to-date budget documentation.
• Proactively communicate forecast budget or changes to leadership.
• Align resource capacity maps to project plans accounting for cross-project dependencies.
• Drive integration with resource managers, delivery managers, and leadership.
• Monitor resource capacity, balancing work and budget (over/under).
• Manage scope changes and variances, assess impact to timeline and budget, and communicate.
• Proactively collaborate and identify solutions to unexpected issues to maintain progress.
• Provide transparent communication of risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, scope change, impacts, and solutions.
• Drive stakeholder coordination and engagement to ensure understanding of project requirements, scope, goals, priorities, and timelines.
• Engage stakeholders to ensure decision and change management processes are followed.
• Create and own communication plan & cadence of project meetings.
• Manage stakeholder expectations, build strong relationships and trust.
• Identify health/progress metrics.
• Maintain meeting minutes, including purpose, agenda, deliverables, and progress towards goals/milestones.
• Prepare and distribute weekly status updates.
• Enable data-driven storytelling with data visualization.
• Prepare and facilitate project status presentations, dashboards, risk assessments, and data-driven storytelling for leadership and executives.

Requirements

• 10+ years of technical project/program management experience with at least 5 years in an enterprise environment (commerce strongly preferred).
• 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).
• Demonstrated Executive level presentation experience.
• Experience with Office productivity software, including Microsoft suite, Keynote, Smartsheet.
• Experience with project management software, including MyPPM (Clarity), MyJira.
• Experience with reporting tools, including Tableau, PowerBI.

Nice-to-haves

• Additional Agile Certifications.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Life Insurance
• 401K