Technical Project Manager

Job description

American Express seeks Technical Project Manager to serve as a core member of an agile team to drive delivery of projects linked to process automation for back-office finance applications.
Key activities shall be
• Managing projects in a large corporation using agile methodology.
• Familiar with Windows/.NET/SQL Server/Informatica Environment.
• Engages with Product Owner, Business Stakeholders, and delivery team to understand Business needs and identify appropriate solutions.
• Works within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases.
• Drives integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product owners, architects, engineers, and quality assurance.
• Maintains dependency plan between planned sprints across engineering, infrastructure, and third parties.
• Breaks down barriers and shields the team from impediments precluding engineers from making progress against sprints and deadlines.
• Manages and tracks team velocity, financials, and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports.
• Assigns development resources to activities, and monitors performance across resource channels.
• Organizes and facilitates daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint, and creates an environment in which the team is continuously learning from the past.
• Coordinates communications, escalates and facilitates resolution of risks, issues, and changes tied to the product development initiatives.
• Applies judgment and discretion on when to raise issues versus work through issues with the team.
• Facilitates discussions and looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Performs hands-on reviews of product backlog, test scripts, and results as needed in addressing delivery impediments or product quality issues.
• Identify, describe and use a range of planning, analysis, design, build, test configuration and maintenance tools normally employed within the organization and industry sector for carrying out application development activities as appropriate for a particular platform or platforms.
• Identify, define and engineer components for relevant systems and platforms based on identified specifications.
• Describe key issues relating to the environment in which the platform or system is required to operate, key modes of operation and typical architectural design solutions.
• Assists in integrating software and hardware sub-systems in new systems, upgrades, enhancements and conversions Identify and describe key requirements and the main functional components that make up the relevant platform or system.

This role may be subject to additional background verification checks.

Desired profile

Qualifications :
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of technical delivery experience with a demonstrated track record of increasing responsibility.
• Experience with implementation of packaged software one or more platforms and languages as appropriate.
• Experience facilitating Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development teams to deliver technology solutions on time, on budget, and to spec. •
PMI Certification is a plus.
• Scrum Master Certification preferred.
Experience with regulatory and compliance initiatives in the financial services industry is a plus
Language : English