Owns assigned product feature delivery from start to finish.
Lead the Hi-Trust certification process engaging all stakeholders to drive compliance
Partner with Product, Engineering, and QA leads to ensure that projects are developed and delivered to production as efficiently as possible.
Working in partnership with Product and Business stakeholders, flesh out and/or create actionable technical project specifications from business requirements.
Understand at a deep level the product features for which the teams are responsible, becoming the "internal subject matter expert" for systems maintained by the teams.
Identify obstacles to efficient completion of delivery milestones and proactively remove or mitigate them. Adapt project scope in response to deadline changes and/or project obstacles to ensure delivery of viable business features on the original deadline.
Coordinate or orchestrate with other project teams for cross-team dependencies.
Ensure timely tracking and completion of project deliverables.
Facilitate the project grooming and estimation efforts to ensure that the teams understand the requirements and has produced a work plan that accounts for known risks and mitigates unknown issues.
Communicate scope or milestone changes early and clearly to stakeholders to ensure buy-in throughout the organization.
Foster a collaborative environment reinforcing transparency, quality, and continuous learning.
Work interactively with stakeholders and team members identify areas of improvement for the teams or their products.
Provide executive project reporting- project status, risks, issues and mitigation plan.
Display solid fiscal responsibility by managing and adhering to budgets and always seeking out operating efficiencies and economies.
Model an inclusive, roll-up-your-sleeves work ethic by showing a willingness to participate in daily workloads when needed to make deadlines.
Qualifications/Requirements
Minimum of 5 years of experience with project management/delivery of software development & Infrastructure teams, includes web applications and back-end server solutions.
Solid grasp of software development planning concepts, including scheduling, risk mitigation, and product rollouts.
Prior professional experience as an individual contributor in the software development lifecycle (e.g., developer, designer, tester etc.) strongly preferred.
Strong understanding of business to technical requirement translation.
Demonstrated ability to lead functional, technical, and strategic discussions to drive successful outcomes.
Excellent communication skills.
Ability to collaborate & build relationships at all levels
Analytical/Agile mindset preferred.
Ability to build relationships at all levels
Ability to rapidly achieve desired outcome in an unstructured environment
Experience with Agile, waterfall & hybrid methodologies
Agile project management certification is a plus.
Knowledge of tracking and reporting tools, JIRA preferred. Affinity with Confluence.