Technical Project Manager - CoE

At Strong-Bridge Envision Consulting (HCL Technologies Company), we work as true partners both with our employees and our clients, embodying our number one value: People First. Our team is driven by a desire to always learn, improve, and innovate. We take an open-minded approach to opportunities and challenges and are focused on solving business challenges.

We deliver programs and projects that exceed stakeholder expectations. To be successful here, you will be a driver with a flexible working style, and excellent communication skills; you will think strategically and act tactically!

Strong-Bridge Envision Consulting (HCL Technologies Company) is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager with focus on COE activities to join our firm as a dedicated full-time employee. This is a remote opportunity working with our clients!

Responsibilities:

• Establish and drive long-term relationships across all required verticals.
• Manage / report on a portfolio of projects and build virtual constructs of experts to share knowledge.
• Great in documentation, deck making, creating newsletters.
• Build internal SharePoint sites, managing COE slack channels.
• Proven track record of excelling in written communication to engage teams (Slack posts, content for newsletter etc.).
• Excels in project management of multiple initiatives.
• Provide Technical Project Manager function for Digital Development teams. Accountable for delivery management function of projects that impact the team.
• Provide leadership and be responsible for consolidated executive summary and detailed weekly status, as well as ad-hoc status requests.
• Bridge Waterfall and Agile methodologies to ensure alignment.
• Responsible for resource balancing and planning of resources for Digital Delivery team initiatives.
• Leverage Digital Dev Architects/Analysts to do the initial vetting of scope/impacts, to ensure alignment with Digital Architecture principles, and to identify opportunities for Digital Transformation.
• Conduct impact assessment on Digital Delivery team when new Enterprise IT initiatives are rolled out and understand their system-specific impacts.
• Drive sessions to define features and epics to a level enabling technical grooming within development teams.
• Facilitate gathering of business and technical requirements from cross-functional partners.
• Facilitate complex team meetings, involving business and technical resources, including third party vendors.
• Lead a diverse group of resources – developers, technical architects, program and project managers, testing leads, and testers.
• Demonstrate credibility as a business partner to ensure business and technology decisions are reached to support business goals and objectives.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience:

• 5 years’ experience in industry roles delivering digital technology solutions.
• Preferred hands-on Digital marketing and social media marketing experience.
• At least 3 years’ experience managing a portfolio of technology initiatives.
• Proven Program management and technical project management capabilities.
• Proven ability to lead technology teams in complex environments.
• Minimum of 3 years of consulting experience desired, specializing in technology delivery.
• Preferred experience working with both business and IT delivery teams.
• Ability to work across varying levels of an organization.
• Experience in executive level reporting.
• Experience and knowledge delivering solutions using Agile methodologies.
• Bachelor of Arts or Science required. Preferred a degree in technology or information systems.
• Ability to work permanently in the U.S. on a full-time basis.

Desired Skills:

• A talent for multi-tasking, meeting deadlines, learning new skills and methodologies, and working under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work independently.
• Flexible working style, ability to work in various types of client environments.
• Excellent communication skills, and proven ability to communicate effectively across the organization.
• Ability to lead decision making through influence, with the ability to make sound decisions in the best interest of the client as needed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Collaborative working style with the ability to flex with many different types of working styles on client site.