Technical Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the project plan, schedule, risks, issues, and dependencies involving both internal teams and the external development vendor.

• Collaborate with the vendor's Project Manager to ensure accountability to the statement of work, including scope, milestones, deliverables, and quality standards.

• Early identification of potential delays, unrealistic timelines, and delivery risks; develop mitigation strategies, negotiate feasible commitments, and escalate issues as required.

• Manage the scope and change control process, assessing the impact of proposed changes on project timelines, resources, and deliverables.

• Organize working sessions, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and demonstrations with the Product Owner, subject-matter experts, and vendor team.

• Ensure availability of internal stakeholders and facilitate timely decisions, requirements, and approvals to avoid project bottlenecks.

• Supervise enterprise system integrations, data migration, validation, and cutover planning in collaboration with technical teams and external vendors.

• Lead user acceptance testing (UAT), encompassing test planning, tester availability, defect resolution, and final approval.

• Strategize deployment and go-live readiness, coordinating production environments, infrastructure dependencies, contingency plans, and transition timelines.

• Prepare and deliver project status updates to leadership, covering progress, risks, schedule adjustments, and decisions needing attention.

• Coordinate change management, documentation, and training initiatives to facilitate the adoption of the new platform.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in application development, software implementation, or technical project management.

• In-depth understanding of the software development lifecycle.

• Demonstrated experience managing enterprise application development, software implementations, and application releases from the planning stage through deployment and go-live.

• Experience in overseeing third-party vendors and coordinating internal business and technical teams to meet strict project deadlines.

• Ability to identify unrealistic schedules, negotiate attainable deadlines, and proactively manage project risks, dependencies, and obstacles.

• Strong grasp of Agile methodologies, including sprint planning, requirements gathering, and release management.

• Experience in coordinating enterprise system integrations, APIs, data migration, testing, and production deployment.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills.

• Proficiency in project management tools such as Jira or Microsoft Project.

• Experience in replacing legacy applications with modern web-based solutions.

• Familiarity with single sign-on (SSO), role-based access controls, and enterprise application environments.

• PMP certification is highly preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

• Retirement Plan

• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick, & Public Holiday)