Technical Project Manager

Need locals to Alpharetta GA
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex web platform initiatives across multiple workstreams and teams.
• Translate product roadmaps into executable project plans, milestones, dependencies, and resourcing forecasts.
• Meet business objectives by successfully designing, implementing, and guiding programs to completion.
• Drive quarterly PI Planning by cross-functional collaboration to establish the specific deliverables committed by the team in the upcoming quarter while noting critical risk and dependencies.
• Documenting all aspects of work and presenting progress to leadership and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage complex technology projects that include dependencies owned by senior leaders across the firm.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders and share progress reports.
• Develop a program plan, including goals, scope, schedule, and resources.
• Align program objectives with the company’s strategic goals and ensure consistency with organizational priorities.
• Establish project tasks and milestones.
• Assign responsibilities to team members.
• Monitor the progress of projects and make updates when necessary.
• Collaborate with vendors, contractors, and external partners to ensure they meet program objectives and deliverables.
• Identify and mitigate risks and issues impacting program delivery and ensure projects meet deadlines and budgets.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues that arise during projects.
• Identify areas for improvement in project management practices
• Engage with program/process owners, stakeholders and business partners as necessary to communicate project objectives, strategy, tactics, and ongoing progress. Drive alignment and build trust with stakeholders.
• Facilitate and enhance the communication and process between IT and the business to establish software engineering priorities, work direction, and best practices; includes working with key stakeholders in the business, business analysts, and developers.
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities while maintaining strong business relationships.
• Effective balance member, business, and technical goals with available resources (this is really about resource allocation

JOB REQUIREMENTS
• Bachelors degree in related field required, or combination of equivalent work/education experience.
• A minimum of 10+ years of experience leading complex development and integration projects, strategy, Business Analysis or System analysis, preferably in the finance/asset management industry
• Excellent communication – both verbal and written – with technology and business partners to include strong discussion, debate and listening skills and the ability to look beyond obvious answers to understand impacts.
• Calm under pressure with competing priorities and hard deadlines
• Highly proactive problem-solver with strong escalation judgment
• Clear, confident communicator with both senior technical and business stakeholders
• Advanced experience working with Scaled Agile software development processes
• Demonstrated success leading and directing others to achieve measurable results.
• Ability to empathically understand and articulate user needs
• Demonstrated ability to articulate solution or product vision and/or customized solutions to meet business objectives
• Comfort working with modern web architectures, APIs & microservices, Cloud-based infrastructure such as Azure and AWS, content management systems such as Sitecore and Adobe AEM
• Data & reporting platforms
• Advanced skills using a variety of tools to document workflows and data mapping including but not limited to Teams, Miro/Lucid, Excel, SQL and Visio
• Understanding of analysis and artifact goals throughout the solution lifecycle
• Ability to learn quickly and work in a changing environment and under tight deadlines
• Ability to independently manage personal timelines and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to successfully manage and coordinate simultaneous project deliverables across groups and teams

HIGHLY DESIRED

• Experience in financial services, asset management, or wealth management platforms for clients, especially for financial advisors. Alternatively or in addition, any external client-facing B2B digital platform.
• Direct involvement in any of the following: Digital account opening, trading & transaction platforms, portfolio analysis and/or construction tools, financial performance and reporting systems
• Agile certification (CSM, SAFe, PMI-ACP) or equivalent real-world experience