Technical Project Manager

• Manage pipeline of multiple projects and work streams, ensuring teams are working to fully agreed resource allocation levels
• Actively participate in agile project planning to create project plans, timelines and milestones across one or more teams
• Lead daily scrums, sprint reviews, and planning meetings to ensure full team engagement with a focus on growing the capabilities by all team members. Manage interdependencies between agile teams.
• Work with the Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution.
• Document, coordinate and manage cross-team dependencies to keep projects on track
• Reports project status to management on a regular basis, and escalates issues as needed to ensure successful outcomes
• Assists with required quality assurance activities to ensure successful deliverables
• Develops implementation and rollout plans
• Actively coach team members on continual improvement, growth mindset and maturing current Agile adoption.
• Cultivate a team culture/environment of continuous learning and improvement.
• Administer metrics tracking and other means to aid team in overall planning and team throughput.
• Observe & provide consistent, impactful feedback for team Agile development

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training and work-related experience
• 3+ years of insurance experience and/or technology environment
• 3+ years of experience as a Project Manager managing complex projects in a high-tech development environment with multi-function teams
• A proven track record of successfully implementing software or web development projects using traditional and Agile methodologies
• Sufficient level of technical background to understand and be able to evaluate project accurately and objectively
• Displays strong communication, organizational, analytical, critical thinking, and team building skills.
• Ability to interact professionally and confidently with colleagues at all levels, including senior and executive management with clear and confident communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team
• Experience using Atlassian application suite (Confluence, JIRA)
• Experience working with teams coding in modern JavaScript framework, and .Net
• CSM, PMI-ACP and/or PMI-PMP desired