Technical Program & Project Management Specialist #1039536
Position Description:
Employees in this job function plan and oversees the execution of projects and/or programs that are focused on technology implementation or upgrade of technology applications capabilities and solutions (e.g., enterprise applications, SAAS, internal infrastructure, networking, data centers, labs, etc.). They will also act as Scrum Masters or Agile Coaches to ensure team lives by the values and practices of scrum by embracing Agile/scrum/Kanban/Lean principles Key
 
Responsibilities:

• Develop project plans, define the project/program scope, goals and deliverables for areas of technology application development and implementation for the enterprise using JIRA
• Drive problem-solving and continuous improvement initiatives by collaborating with IT teams, technology vendors, etc.
• Facilitate development effort by creating and monitoring an efficient, streamlined process between the internal teams and external technology providers
• Effectively communicate status updates to all stakeholders across multiple organizations/ teams, with reinforcing quantitative measurements
• Ensure project and program objectives, deliverables and results are completed within the agreed scope, timeline, budget and allocated resources - Champions and coaches Agile software processes, culture, best practices, and techniques along with Managing Agile ceremonies like Stand up, Refinement, Retrospectives.
• Provide accurate and insightful analysis and reporting, presenting the data in a clear format for presentations and reviews
• Identify risks and create risk mitigation plans to ensure timely completion of the projects/programs
• Manage technology product goals and forecasts. Collaborate with technical development team(s) to translate the long-term objectives into actionable technology strategy and an implementation roadmap
• Guide execution by applying standard frameworks and development lifecycle methodologies like agile, waterfall etc.

 
Skills Required:

• Project Management

 
Skills Preferred:

• Jira

 
Experience Required:

• Specialist Exp: 10+ years in IT; 7 +years in Program Mgmt., Expert in Proj Mgr

 
Experience Preferred:

• 7+ years of Agile delivery experience
• Hands-on experience with Pracle SQL, Microsoft VB.
• Hands-on experience working with APIs.
• Strong communication skills; ability to lead complex, technical conversations with multiple stakeholders (our internal and External, including Architecture and Trading teams) at varying levels of technical depth
• Strong facilitation and presentation abilities
• Ability to be comfortable working in an ever-changing environment
• Strong technical acumen, willingness to learn
• Strong understanding of the Agile methodology and associated management tools
• Knowledge of Lean
• Functional knowledge/awareness of Treasury or Finance associated business processes and applications
• Prior experience developing and supporting large, global applications and COTS implementations preferred
• Managing vendor/Partner relationships
• Scaled Agile (SAFe) experience.

 
Education Required:

• Bachelor's Degree

 
Additional Information:

• Works closely with Product Owners to establish the product roadmap; ensuring all stakeholders teams understand the strategy and vision.
• Clearly communicates product roadmap to team members and stakeholders
• Translates the product roadmap into manageable features, user stories in a prioritized backlog for SAP and Trading Platform implementation as part of Treasury Transformation.
• Champions and coaches' Agile software processes, culture, best practices, and techniques along with Managing Agile ceremonies like Stand up, Refinement, Retrospectives. ·
• Aligns technical team capacity with business priority, user feedback, and technical feasibility · Manages risks and brings transparency to issues
• Defines analytics to be collected regarding the product, and prioritizes their collection and reviews during team ceremonies
• Participates in technical architecture discussions around business capability, technical functionality and integration and break down the work into Small Deliverables.
• Actively gathers user and stakeholder feedback to drive improvements on the product roadmap
• Actively manages features and dependencies across product releases
• Actively works to remove blockers to team delivery · Create Weekly, monthly status Slides.

 
Additional Info:
 
At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra.  We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.
We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!
FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.
We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.
Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
 

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

 
Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.
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