A broadcasting corporation is currently seeking a Technical Project Manager to join their data engineering team in NJ. In this role, the Technical Project Manager will serve as a force multiplier for the Data Engineering teams that build these data sets through their expertise in communication, planning, and program management.
Responsibilities:
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and other Technical Project Managers to support Data development delivery
- Support the Data Org's the work-intake triage process to ensure new requests are addressed in accordance with SLAs.
- Set-up and ensure maintenance of Programs, Epics, and Stories in Jira to appropriately manage the teams' work through to completion.
- Help set project delivery commitments and determine impacts as a result of fluctuating priorities and resource availability.
- Track and report team velocity and manage Sprint capacity and ensure the team is working efficiently towards delivery goals.
- Resolve or escalate blocking impediments as necessary.
- Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint and release planning, backlog grooming and refinement sessions, sprint demos, retrospectives and other process meetings.
- Coordinate teams in troubleshooting and resolving production support issues which require cross-team coordination, especially those impacting customers.
- Coach the development team and stakeholders on following Data Org processes and practices and ensure they are effectively implementing them. Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in a Technical PM or Scrum Master role.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, BI or Analytics, or Software Engineering.
- Experience simultaneously assisting multiple scrum teams distributed globally.
- Expertise in Jira and Confluence, ideally with proficiency in advanced add-ins such as ALM Works Structure
- Experience supporting a cloud-based Technical data environment.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to set informed delivery expectations based on complexity and team capacity and understand/communicate technical issues.
- Familiarity with GitHub.
- Experience working with enterprise data platforms, such as Databricks or Snowflake, and proficiency with using SQL to query large data sets.
Desired Skills:
- Experience working in a technically challenging and complex environment.