Technical Project Manager

Eaton Corporation - Santa Clara, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Santa Clara, CA

Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing

About the position

The Technical Project Manager at WinWire is responsible for overseeing the delivery execution of client projects, ensuring that they are completed on time, within scope, and meet quality standards. This role involves managing customer engagements, coordinating resources, and leading co-located teams throughout the software development life cycle. The Technical Project Manager will also handle risk management, change requests, and post-project evaluations to enhance future project outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Project planning and management including scope, schedule, velocity, efficiency, quality.
• Create and manage detailed project plans for each milestone and release.
• Resource allocation, ensuring availability and capacity management.
• Identify team members' growth and training needs.
• Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques.
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques.
• Report and escalate to management as needed.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
• Oversee quality assurance and ensure objectives are met.
• Plan and manage project budgets to ensure effective use of financial resources.
• Provide technical guidance and support to the project team.
• Ensure technical feasibility of projects.
• Conduct post-project evaluations and identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.

Requirements

• Minimum 5-7 years of experience in technical project management or similar experience/expertise.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies is required.
• Experience executing projects in Agile methodology using the Scrum framework.
• Capable of providing gap analysis and needs assessments to uncover business needs.
• Proactively identify future blockers and gaps and work closely with the team and client to minimize productivity loss.
• Experience working with JIRA, ADO, or similar project management tools.
• Ability to generate data-centric metrics, effective reports, and dashboards.
• Technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in web and/or mobile development technologies like Java, React, Node.js, Angular, HTML/CSS3, SQL or similar query languages.
• Understanding of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline processes, cloud infrastructure, and source code repositories.
• Strong experience in leading, facilitating, and motivating teams for small to medium IT projects.
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking.
• Strong leadership, negotiation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Flexibility to adjust plans as project requirements change.

Nice-to-haves

• PMP, SAFe, CSM, or similar project management certification is a plus.