Lead Technical Project Manager

Lead Technical Project Manager

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Are you ready to take your career to the next level and help lead a cutting-edge company into a bright future? We are actively seeking a talented and experienced technical project manager to oversee a wide variety of projects from conceptual design through implementation. We know how valuable your problem-solving and leadership skills are to our company's success. If you are ready to steer high-level projects to success, we are excited to have you on our team.
Responsibilities:

• Coordinate RFP/RFI process with Sourcing partners for vendor/product selection
• Manage project planning during discovery phases
• Coordinate and facilitate delivery of project goals
• Ensure completion of tasks, maintaining project schedule and target dates
• Lead high-priority matrix projects, which often require considerable resources and high levels of functional integration and interaction with project sponsors and teams
• Conduct project meetings at leadership and executive director levels
• Develop a project change control process to ensure project team operates within the scope of change approval process
• Provide input and feedback to team members
• Evaluate the risks associated with project activities and take appropriate action to reduce the risks
• Review available resources to maintain first-hand knowledge of where resources can be best allocated; reevaluate current resources to determine project resource surplus and shortfalls
• Ensure adherence to quality standards and review deliverables
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer goals
• Communicate with partners to gain support for projects
• Partner with managers to ensure efficient project delivery
• Conduct regular status meetings with all partners, keeping the partner's requirements in view
• Collaborate with development staff and support staff to maintain knowledge of capabilities, and to ensure precise communications between project teams and partners
• Create presentations and reports for executive leadership and partners
• Present program status and issues to leadership through formal presentations
• Communicate program status and risks to management
• Ensure that projects operate within the approved budget
• Monitor all budgeted project expenditures
• Ensure that all financial actuals for the project are up-to-date
• Work with IT Project Controllers to oversee budget expenditures

Basic Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Program/Project management experience leading high-profile projects, and are viewed as the "go-to" individual
• Technical project team experience working with technology, business, and vendor teams
• Knowledge of project management processes including Agile, Kanban and Waterfall
• Experience working with remote and global teams
• Experience using JIRA, Confluence, and GitHub.
• Experience with financial/budget management and complex cost-benefit analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical project management experience in data products & platforms
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Agile Certifications (CSM; ACP; CSPO; SAFe; LeSS)
• Experience with portfolio management tools like Clarity
• Experience with collaboration tools like SharePoint, Smartsheets

Required Education:

• Bachelors Degree

Additional Responsibilities:

• Participate in OrangePeople monthly team meetings, and participate in team-building efforts.
• Contribute to OrangePeople technical discussions, peer reviews, etc.
• Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base.
• Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested.

About us:
OrangePeople is an Enterprise Architecture and Project Management solutions company. Our most valuable asset is our people: dynamic, creative thinkers, who are passionate about doing quality work. As a member of the OrangePeople team, you will have access to industry-leading consulting practices, strategies & technologies, innovative training & education. An ideal OrangePeople Person is a technology leader with a proven track record of technical achievements and strong process/methodology orientation.