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Technical Project Manager @ American Express

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 Technical Project Manager

Job Description

As a Sr. Technical Project Manager, you enable our product engineering team s productivity and agility by demonstrating Agile/Scrum concepts and principles where appropriate. You ll be responsible for managing migration of legacy applications to microservices and cloud-native platform. You ll work with application teams, external partners, vendors and should be able to lead end-to-end programs with intense focus and a sense of urgency.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Maintain dependency plan between planned sprints/iterations across engineering, infrastructure, and third parties.
  • Breaks down barriers with assistance of Director and shields the team from impediments precluding engineers from making progress against sprints and deadlines.
  • Organizes and facilitates daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint/iteration and builds an environment in which the team is continuously learning from the past.
  • Influence without authority through effective change and leadership management.
  • Engages with Product Owner, Business Stakeholders and delivery team to understand business need and identify appropriate solutions.
  • Uses technical acumen to enable removal of impediments, ask probing questions, and support team in technical issue resolution.
  • Facilitate discussions to identify alternative or different approaches to solve problems, break down barriers and drive resolution of conflicts to ensure productivity of team.
  • Steer and deliver project communications within Technology and business to ensure transparency of development process and project performance, to coordinate critical issues and issue resolution, to facilitate decision making and to build trust.
  • Create an environment of continuous improvement through reflective conversation and regular retrospectives, with the goal to surface issues/concerns to identify clear action steps.
  • Works in partnership with product owner and the core and extended team to build and prioritize product backlog
  • Responsible for tracking iteration progress actively adding to design discussions, issue resolution and removing obstacles to ensure sprint/iteration commitments are met.
  • Coach team to embrace the technology SDLC process, Agile values, principles and practices, and actively inspire teams to reflect and improve their delivery capacity.
  • Delivery focused with the ability to rally the team along to meet deadlin

Qualifications

  • Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, orother technical discipline preferred, or equivalent work experience required.Advanced degree preferred.
  • 7 years of technical delivery experience with the demonstratedtrack record of growing responsibility
  • Experience facilitating Agile/Scrum, or other rapid applicationdevelopment teams to delivery technology solutions on time, on budget and tospec
  • Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms, aplus
  • PMI Agile Certification a plus

Job Classification

Industry: Banking / Financial Services / Broking
Functional Area: IT Software - Application Programming, Maintenance,
Role Category: Project Management
Role: Project Management
Employement Type: Full time

Education

Under Graduation: Any Graduate in Any Specialization
Post Graduation: Post Graduation Not Required
Doctorate: Any Doctorate in Any Specialization, Doctorate Not Required

Contact Details:

Company: American Express
Location(s): Bengaluru

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Keyskills:   Computer science Product engineering Agile scrum Coding Agile Issue resolution Application development Technology solutions Continuous improvement SDLC

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