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Technical Program Manager : New York City
Job Description:
This position requires proven experience in delivering large, ambiguous, and highly technical programs. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on multiple assignments that may span the department. They must be capable of digging into technical details and clearly communicating schedules, risks, status, and processes to a variety of business and technical audiences. They must be able to partner closely with product managers and technical leads to coordinate schedules and deliverables.
This role will be aligned with the Identity Governance, Devices, Profiles, & Privacy teams, focusing on onboarding business units to identity services. They will work closely with highly technical teams, including Client Experience front-end Web engineering, Foundational Platforms, GCI Orchestration, and SDK integration team, to build platform services, build architecture, ensure scaling, and create a forward-looking roadmap. Strong technical architecture aptitude is essential.
Responsibilities of the right candidate:
Deliver projects from concept to completion by collaborating with engineering teams, product management, design, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
Understand architectural and design specifications. Suggest alternate solutions that achieve business goals and/or drive alternate solution development via collaborative mechanisms such as story mapping and whiteboarding.
Facilitate technical meetings; follow the discussions to summarize and capture outcomes.
Facilitate team agile ceremonies (standups, grooming, team retrospective and planning sessions) and ensure they are effective and efficient.
Track team progress against results and determine solutions to get back on-track when things fall behind schedule.
Engage with the development teams to build delivery timelines of feature sets for projects and be able to sequence the work based on priorities.
Collaborate with other TPMs to understand cross-team dependencies and prioritize the work to avoid impediments.
Attend project meetings and be ready represent engineering teams in communicating team progress, risks, and mitigation plans.
Prioritize multiple team requests and balance that against other priorities and committed work. Must understand the impact of injecting these requests to the team’s backlog.
Navigate the TWDC to effectively drive progress, even when the scope of responsibilities may be unclear.
Facilitate all build activities (including QA and UAT), as per plan (where applicable)
Proactively drive, track, and report on budgets
Collaborate with other program management colleagues to coordinate activities across multiple technology teams.
Qualifications of the right candidate:
7+ years of experience managing large-scale, strategic, software development programs in a well-established global technology organization.
Proven ability to facilitate effective communication across disparate teams.
Evidence of strong planning, delivery, and problem-solving skills
Superb written and verbal communications, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation skills (especially when working with senior leadership)
BA/BS or equivalent experience required
About the Company
Established in 2012, Optomi is committed to providing superior IT Talent Services via contract, contract-to-hire, and team augmentation models. Our delivery teams are aligned by competencies focused on 7 key areas in technology: Business Optimization, Software Engineering, Cloud & Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Data Modernization, ServiceNow, and Emerging Technologies. Our skillset-focused approach allows our recruiting teams to become experts within their space and streamline the hiring process. We save you time and money ...
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