Technical Project Manager

Metro Systems - Lawrence Township, NJ

Full-time

Lawrence Township, NJ

Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation

About the position

The Technical Project Manager will play a crucial role in the data engineering team of a broadcasting corporation, focusing on enhancing communication, planning, and program management to support the development and delivery of data sets. This position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and the management of project commitments to ensure efficient delivery of data projects.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and other Technical Project Managers to support Data development delivery
• Support the Data Org's 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
• Track and report team velocity and manage Sprint capacity and ensure the team is working efficiently towards delivery 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
• 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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a Technical PM or Scrum Master role
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, BI or Analytics, or Software Engineering
• Experience simultaneously assisting multiple scrum teams distributed globally
• Expertise in Jira and Confluence, ideally with proficiency in advanced add-ins such as ALM Works Structure
• Experience supporting a cloud-based Technical data environment
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to set informed delivery expectations based on complexity and team capacity and understand/communicate technical issues
• Familiarity with GitHub
• Experience working with enterprise data platforms, such as Databricks or Snowflake, and proficiency with using SQL to query large data sets.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working in a technically challenging and complex environment.