Technical Project Manager

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Participate in pre-sales meetings and contract preparations.
• Ensure that best practices and defined project management processes and standards are adhered to for assigned projects with respect to scoping and planning, issue management, risk management, change management, quality management, etc.
• Establish the project plan baseline by collaboratively defining and documenting the project scope including key milestones and dependencies.
• Determine and define clear deliverables as well as roles and responsibilities for all assigned project team members.
• Identify and secure the necessary resources needed to execute the project plan.
• Work with LotusFlares internal engineering and design teams and externally with customer technical teams to ensure best practices are followed and optimal solutions are selected and developed.
• Drive project execution: track delivery, take ownership of change management, and proactively seek and resolve blockers.
• Assign and oversee the daily tasks of LotusFlare personnel assigned to the project while ensuring all team members are working toward established milestones.
• Conduct regular meetings to determine progress and address any challenges, issues, or questions regarding assigned projects.
• Prepare and provide periodic updates and status reports to internal and client leaders.
• Manage UAT and production releases, as well as project handover to our operational support teams.
• Be a part of a Global Delivery Team, share experiences and develop the PM discipline within LotusFlare with the aim to improve processes, methods and tools with creative ideas.
• Create and maintain project documentation.
• Work with the latest collaboration tools including Jira, Confluence, Trello, Work@FB, etc.
• Run daily rituals like scrum, backlog grooming, planning, and retrospective for a cross-functional team. Monitor the progress of issues and provide solutions for the development team.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, System Information, Engineering, Business Administration, or any other relevant majors.
• 5+ years experience in Project Management in a technical and/or software development environment, preferably into the Telecommunications sector and with exposure to Product Engineering teams as well as BSS/OSS development and integration.
• Professional Project Management Certification from an accredited institution (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2).
• Demonstrated deep understanding of foundational Project Management processes, strategies, tools, and methods.
• A solid foundation in service-oriented and digital technologies to be able to understand service inter-dependencies and technical solutions for multi-tiered systems.
• Comfort and experience with cross-organizational communication; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in delivering products against a plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, and often ambiguous environment.
• Experience working independently to design, plan, and execute technical projects.
• Able to distill data and articulate the rationale for making difficult trade-offs.
• Experience working with Jira and Confluence tools, preferably with proficiency using Jira Roadmaps for project planning and tracking.
• Additional certification and experience as a Scrum Master using the Agile methodology is an asset.