Technical Product Manager Nashville TNonsite

Position: Technical Product Manager

Location: Nashville TN(onsite)

Duration: 12 Months

Experience:13 years

General Responsibilities

• Accountable and responsible for the endtoend delivery of application technology solutions in line with strategic business objectives.
• Ensure that the business needs are clearly understood and the technology implemented meets the needs and expectations of the business.
• Provide consultation directly to leadership and customers around solution options and vendor product selection as needed.
• Work with channel leadership to budget and prioritize planned and unplanned development and maintenance project engagements.
• Work with Business System Analysts and Architects to develop high level understanding of scope and feasibility of technical solutions.
• Oversee product planning delivery release management and deployment to ensure technology standards and business needs are met.

Responsibilities

• Manage the day to day decision making involved in project/product portfolio.
• Work with channel and business leadership to develop a strategy for execution of product roadmap.
• Seek ways to reduce application related costs and increase efficiencies of applications in production.
• Integrate the business strategy and knowledge of software capabilities (current and future) into vision and direction for the product.
• Ensure that the product supports the appropriate business processes and have the appropriate support and maintenance processes in place.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in resolving complex issues
• Oversee and conduct research on competitive products both internally and externally and understands business and industry direction to provide guidance on product future.
• Performs other jobrelated duties as assigned.

Project Responsibilities

• Lead all design/development aspects of SDLC for
• Ensure all development and maintenance projects are in accordance with channel strategy and adhere to product and channel vision and product innovation roadmaps.
• Lead project execution and coordination efforts to ensure projects are completed on schedule and within budget.
• Monitors and prepares development product work plans pricing model budget and schedules. Manages the budget and project timeline.
• Provides consultation directly to leadership around the project.
• Provide insight oversight strategic context direction and leadership to the project team involved in the effort.
• Partner with channel leaders and project team to design develop and support Enterprise wide solution.
• Develop project documentatione.g. project initiation documentation budget project plan and resource plan.
• Ensure resources assigned to projects are meeting deadlines and focused on the right activities.
• Escalate issues risks and decisions to the Channel Leader or other stakeholders as necessary and develop mitigating actions.
• Monitor progress and status of deliverables.
• Review projects for completeness of thought and consistency of approach and interface.
• Own product releases and provide status to ITS leadership; escalate issues proactively.
• Ensure standards procedures and methodologies in the delivery life cycle are followed.
• Communicate development and production status and issues to management and stakeholders.

Project Delivery Teaming

• Prepare overall project schedule milestones tasks and estimates.
• Participate in technology/solution decisions with architecture and product teams for projects.
• Partner with Solution/Application Architects to ensure that technical design unit testing deployment and implementation requirements are properly documented.
• Partner with Product Owners to analyze business and functional requirements which have a impact on business applications.
• Work with offshore Product Manager to optimize the mix of the development resources.
• Coordinate with architecture and development teams to ensure code reviews are done that aligned to predefined architecture/design.
• Coordinate with Product Owners and Quality Engineering teams to ensure proper testing is performed
• Motivate and lead project delivery teams and instill a mindset of continuous process improvement.

Offshore Team Oversight

• Manage daily progress and status of deliverables on projects.
• Manage both internal teams and offshore vendor teams project delivery plans and ensure proper staffing.
• Ensure that all project resources are focused on the effort they are aligned to.
• Closely monitor workload of all employees and offshore vendor resources assigned to project.
• Promote effective teamwork and spirit of partnership.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Business Administration or equivalent educational or professional experience and/or qualifications. An advanced degree is also preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of indepth experience in Agile solutions design and delivery of enterprise level solutions. Experience implementing Safe Agile projects a plus.
• Proven expertise in managing the delivery of midtolarge web/enterprise applications needed.
• Technical experience in Microsoft .NET or SharePoint application development is a plus.
• Ability to adjust communications to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Must have strong analytical abilities negotiation/presentation skills and organizational/planning abilities.
• Ability to drive teams to meet consensus and have vivid passion for applications delivery.
• Strong project management and team management skills.
• Creative able to think outside the box; uses knowledge gained through prior experience education and training to resolve issues and remove project barriers.
• Results driven maintains constant awareness of projects and clients; keeps product owners focused on short and long term milestones.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with customers yet represent accurately the perspective of Technology.
• Experience working directly with clients and providing consultation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong leadership and management skills
• Collaboration and decision making skills
• Ability to influence and negotiate situations to achieve a common goal
• Ability to work productively with all levels in an large organization
• Ability to travel minimally required up to 10%.