Technical Project / Delivery Manager

Paradyme Management - Tysons, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Tysons, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Paradyme Management is seeking a Technical Project Manager to oversee mission-critical programs, ensuring the successful delivery and performance of projects throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This role involves collaboration with project teams, including data scientists and software engineers, to develop analytics capabilities that support customer decision-making and digital transformation. The Technical Project Manager will facilitate communication between stakeholders, manage project risks, and document customer requirements, all while fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers to identify and create specific use cases that address customer needs.
• Identify and maintain KPIs to help drive solutions and delivery.
• Support development team in technical delivery of work assignments.
• Foster built-in quality practices to ensure high-quality deliverables and adherence to standards and guidelines.
• Facilitate communication between the team and stakeholders, ensuring everyone is on the same page regarding priorities and goals.
• Actively participate in various team events, including daily stand-ups, retrospectives, sprint planning, and demos.
• Identify, track, and manage dependencies and risks that can impact the team's ability to deliver value.
• Continuously gather feedback from stakeholders and the team to make necessary adjustments and improvements.
• Interface with senior leadership with the customers to consult on future technology roadmaps and capabilities.
• Document customer use cases and requirements, as well as training materials and resources when applicable to the solution being provided.
• Lead project teams to success.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, or equivalent fields.
• Minimum 4 years relevant work experience as a project manager or product owner, leading agile teams for customer solutions and delivery.
• Effectively connect with and represent customers, understand the customer experience, identify problems and issues to be solved and develop effective solutions to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Identify key issues and solutions and convey those to the team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Eligibility for U.S. Security Clearance.

Nice-to-haves

• Real passion for developing team-oriented solutions to complex engineering problems.
• Prior experience as a technical software engineer/developer.
• Prior experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager in an agile setting.
• Thrive in an autonomous, empowering and exciting environment.
• Great verbal and written communication skills to collaborate multi-functionally and improve scalability.
• Interest in committing to a fun, friendly, expansive, and intellectually stimulating environment.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating applications using IaaS and PaaS on major cloud providers, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Services.
• Conveys highly technical concepts and information in written form to technical and non-technical audiences.
• The ability to work on multiple concurrent projects is essential.
• Strong self-motivation and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be a team-oriented individual, energetic, result & delivery oriented, with a keen interest on quality and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work in an agile environment.