Technical Project Manager

Employment Type: FTE with WinWire

Location: Santa Clara, CA 95054 (Onsite)

WinWire is looking for a dedicated, motivated, detail-oriented Technical Project Manager (Web and Mobile Technology) for their delivery execution team to support development and delivery of client projects. The Technical Project Manager will be responsible for managing customer engagements from onshore and leading the co-located teams to deliver project schedule, scope, quality, efficiency, resources throughout the software development life cycle. This role includes identifying and managing risks, issues, and change-requests also which are critical factors for delivery success.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Management:
- Project planning and management including scope, schedule, velocity, efficiency, quality.
- Create and manage detailed project plans for each milestone and releases
Resource Coordination:
- Resource allocation, ensuring availability and capacity management
- Team members growth and trainings identification
Risk and Change Management:
- Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques.
- Perform risk management to minimize project risks.
Performance Measurement:
- Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques.
- Report and escalate to management as needed.
Documentation and Quality Assurance:
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
- Oversee quality assurance and ensure objectives are met.
Budget & Financial Management
- Planning and managing project budgets to ensure financial resources are used effectively; Budgeting, forecasting, and managing financial resources

Technical Proficiency:
- Provide technical guidance and support to the project team.
- Ensure technical feasibility of projects.
Post-Project Evaluation:
- Conduct post-project evaluation and identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
- Applying learnings for future projects and sharing with delivery team for wider learning.

Skills:

Minimum 5-7 years of experience in technical project management or similar experience / expertise
Strong understanding of project management methodologies is required
Experience of executing projects in Agile methodology using scrum framework
Capable of providing gap analysis and needs assessments to uncover business needs
Proactively identifying future blockers and gaps and working closely with the team and client to minimize productivity loss
Experience of working with JIRA, ADO, or similar project management tools
Generating data centric metrics, effective reports, and dashboards
Have technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in web and/or mobile development technologies like Java, React, Node.js, Angular, HTML/CSS3, SQL or similar query languages
Understanding of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline and processes, cloud infrastructure, and source code repositories
Able to lead the technical team by providing guidance
Identifying the need of aligning the technical architect, product owner, QE lead or right stakeholder with the team as per the requirement
Working with multiple internal and stakeholders and vendors and resolving dependencies and blockers
Strong experience in leading, facilitating and motivating teams for small to medium IT projects required
Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
Strong organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking
Strong leadership, negotiation, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Being flexible and able to adjust plans as project requirements change