Position Title: TPM | Location: Dallas, TX / Austin, TX | Hire Type: FTE | Salary: $120K to $125K Max
What you’ll do:
- Manage business and technical deliverables to the project budget and timeline throughout the various project phases.
- Develop and document project plans, budgets and schedules.
- Identify and document the roles, tasks, and responsibilities of the project team.
- Document release/deployment plans, present to leadership.
- Schedule and manage releases, create deployment tickets.
- Schedule, coordinate and lead release and certification calls.
- Identify gaps/risks early and establish mitigation plans.
- Ensure the coordination of individual team deliverables are synchronized as necessary to achieve product releases.
- Manage day-to-day scrum activities and influence team members to leverage, follow and support agile software development practices, schedule and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies as needed.
- Interface with product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA and Technology Operations to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time and budget.
- Work with leads and product owner to provide development sizings & cost analysis estimates.
- Work closely with product owner and team members to decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks.
- Utilize scrum tools and frameworks to achieve efficiency both internally and externally.
- Support integration efforts to build whole systems from various subsystems.
- Assist development and operations teams in resolving needs and roadblocks identified by team members.
What you have:
- Three or more years of project management experience, managing multiple large, complex and cross‑functional projects, with emphasis on systems, technologies, business process redesign, and knowledge of technical environments.
- Scrum Master and Release Manager experience.
- Two or more years of technology experience, previous development or QA experience.
- Previous technical experience with the Microsoft technology stack (C#, SQL Server) or with Java.
- Ability to understand technical issues and facilitate resolution.
- Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Expert knowledge of MS Project, Excel, and MS Word along with general familiarity with Outlook, Visio and other MS Office applications.
- Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
- Strong interpersonal, negotiation, facilitation, analytical, problem‑solving, influencing, prioritization, decision‑making and conflict resolution skills with a solid ability to identify stakeholders, assess their needs and manage their expectations through effective communication.
- Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate.
- Experience working with an Agile methodology on large scale, technically complex projects for a large enterprise.
- Results Driven (Prioritizing, Taking Initiative, Taking Ownership).
- Team Leadership (Coaching Others, Dealing with Stress, Demonstrating Teamwork, Influencing Others, Interacting with Others, Maintaining Composure, Motivating Others, Providing Direction and Leadership).
- Certified Scrum Master and PMP Certification (plus).
- Financial Industry experience (plus).