Technical Project Manager

Company: NTT DATA Services
Location: Irving
Posted on: January 12, 2022

Job Description:

NTT DATA Services strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.
We are currently seeking a Technical Project Manager to join our team in Irving, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).
Job Responsibilities Include

• Accountable for managing the lifecycle for a complex cross functional body of work that has a long term positive impact on the company
• Establish collaborative and productive relationships with product management, governance, UX design, vendors and other supporting teams.
• Foster an environment of engineering excellence and innovation. Insist on designing to the edge.
• Works closely with development teams to build and launch new products, features and programs.
• Define and organize the program, outline tenets, analyze data, drive performance improvements, and influence resource allocation for all stages of execution (from ideation to delivery)
• Being the scrum master for the team, will own planning, standups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of your sprints. Removes blockers and always find the path forward in challenging situations
• Keep technical debt in check.
• Ensure teams are building using modern practices and tools.
• Recognize and act of your responsibility for driving change for the entire development community.
• Cultivate operational excellence within your teams. Understand service level agreements (SLA) and how your systems are performing in relation to them. Ensure your systems self-report breaches and understand root cause. Insist that your teams provide timely resolution of identified production defects.
• Mentor and grow your people.
• Create an environment of individual accountability.Basic Qualifications
  • 7 plus years of software engineering, systems engineering or similar experience.
  • 3 plus years of project/program management experience working directly with software development teams.
  • Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (preferably computer science)Preferred Skills
    • Experience managing projects that require Microservice development and working with API management tools
    • Strong analytical and quantitative skills; Data driven and results-oriented
    • Communication skills and experience working with technical and business management teams. Organizational and coordination skills along with multi-tasking capabilities to get things done in an environment.
    • Ability to motivate and focus a collaboration to reach challenging goals.
    • Interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within a diverse, cross-functional team.
    • Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations.
    • Demonstrated past experience in defining and measuring team success via data-driven metrics & reporting
    • Experience delivering with an agile methodology is a must.
    • Experience of building and launching a new product or service from the ground up and/or experience with external facing production systems preferred.

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