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Full-Time
Lead Tech Project Mgr
Posted on 9/12/2024
The Walt Disney Company
10,001+ employees
Leading producers & providers of entertainment and information
Senior
Orlando, FL, USA
This is a full-time role that requires in-office presence in Orlando, Florida.
Category
DevOps & Infrastructure
DevOps Engineering
Required Skills
Agile
Tableau
Development Operations (DevOps)
PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides
Requirements
- 7+ years of technical project/program management experience working with technical teams developing enterprise class solutions
- Understanding of Cloud, APIs, services, database technologies, technologist roles and responsibilities, capabilities & platform dependencies, software development lifecycle, engineering and/or product development
- Influence and negotiation, communication, professional maturity & organizational savvy, relationship building, dependency mapping
- Hands-on experience with practices such as Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall as well as extensive experience with pragmatic blending of styles to facilitate collaboration and delivery
- Deep understanding of Agile technical practices, DevOps and testing concepts (CI/CD, TDD)
- Significant experience in coaching and mentoring teams on project management practices including Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall
- Excellent ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of projects
- Excellent organizational, communication (written and verbal) and time management skills with attention to detail
- Experience managing large budgets
- Office productivity software, including Microsoft suite, Keynote, Smartsheet
- Project management software, including MyPPM (Clarity), MyJira
- Reporting tools, including Tableau, PowerBI
Responsibilities
- Lead and drive cross-functional projects, and individual project tracks through full delivery life cycle ensuring project is delivered timely and on-budget.
- Work with engineering teams, including Software Engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and leadership to establish processes across all program areas that will ensure success on high priority business initiatives and improve efficiency.
- Lead and direct junior technical project managers in the execution of their work during the project lifecycle.
- Work with business leaders and key stakeholders to support engineering efforts for projects within a program.
- Defines, optimizes, and manages Agile project management ceremonies and processes at the team-of-teams level.
- Lead and manage large-scale, complex programs and/or projects, ensuring seamless collaboration across various teams and workstreams.
- Anticipate risks and develop mitigation plans; analyze mitigation plans and communicate plans to stakeholders.
- Maintain accurate project documentation, including: RAID log, scope, project plans, budget, etc.
- Articulate a technical solution into business strategy and understand the big picture as it relates to business value.
- Reconcile project actuals and determine forecast course corrections.
- Achieve a detailed understanding of how project is billed, including changes to forecast.
- Maintain up-to-date budget documentation.
- Proactively communicate forecast budget or changes to leadership.
- Align resource capacity maps to project plans accounting for cross-project dependencies.
- Drive integration with resource managers, delivery managers and leadership.
- Monitor resource capacity, balancing work and budget (over/under).
- Manage scope changes and variances, assess impact to timeline and budget, and communicate.
- Proactively collaborate and identify solutions to as unexpected issues arise to maintain progress.
- Provide transparent communication of risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, scope change, impacts and solutions.
- Lead stakeholder coordination and engagement to ensure understanding of project requirements, scope, goals, priorities and timelines.
- Engage stakeholders to ensure decision and change management processes are followed.
- Create and own communication plan & cadence of project meetings.
- Manage stakeholder expectations, build strong relationships and trust.
- Identify health / progress metrics.
- Lead project meetings and maintain minutes, including purpose, agenda and deliverables and progress towards goals/ milestones.
- Prepare and distribute weekly status updates.
- Enable data-driven storytelling with Data visualization.
- Prepare and facilitate project status presentations, dashboards, risk assessments and data-driven storytelling for leadership and executives.
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
N/A
Founded
1923
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