Our Vancouver-based client is looking for an experienced Technical Project Manager to manage data engineering and applications development projects while refining their tools and processes. Your role is to ensure project success by delivering every project on time, within budget and scope. As an experienced Project Manager, you're able to take large complex projects and break them down into manageable phases, develop functional specifications, and then work with the team to deliver them in a successful and timely manner.
What you will do:
Develop project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
Work closely with UI/UX designer to create wireframes to guide development
Understand product requirements and translate them into actionable plans
Plan and coordinate project schedules, goals and milestones, and work with leads to assign appropriate resources
Identify project risks and plans to mitigate them
Maintain detailed status, activities and issue reports on projects to present to senior management and major project stakeholders
Write periodic reports for project follow-ups and lessons learned from completed projects
Adhere to budgets and keep projects on track for successful completion within specification
Identify creative solutions to project roadblocks and resolve issues and constraints with appropriate input
Encourage collaboration and proactively seek opportunities to improve collaboration between teams
Work closely and act as a liaison with product manager, UX designer and cross-functional teams for assigned projects
Ensure teams have the necessary resources to carry out their duties
Proactively seek opportunities to improve collaboration and handoffs between teams
Communicate with key stakeholders to ensure risks and impact of any scope changes are understood and approved
Negotiate prioritization between product managers and technical leadership
Work with business stakeholders to manage and organize user acceptance testing
Requirements
3 + years experience in a project management role
Ability to work independently with high degree of initiative
Ability to multitask and juggle multiple projects at one time
Proficient in conflict resolution and comfortable working with technical and business teams
Strong presentation skills, both oral and written
Experience with teams performing new product development while simultaneously supporting existing products
Excellent knowledge of project management and issue management tools
Solid technical background with understanding or hands-on experience in software development and network technologies
Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Ability to communicate business slack and user needs to technical audiences
Nice to have:
PMP certification
Experience working with remote teams
Contact Maryann@gorecruitment.com for questions.