Senior Technical Project Manager

Job Title: Senior Technical Project Manager

Duration: 6 months
Location: Osterley

What you'll do:

• Expertly drive planning with Engineering Teams to manage and lead technically challenging projects/deliveries, communicating Engineering commitment levels, capacity, plans and manage unplanned work
• Provide strategic and tactical delivery plans and impact assessments for your technical area
• Support and steer planning for their domains
• Ensure governance structures and decision-making processes are met
• Ensure all GPO reporting standards are accurate, audience appropriate and deadlines are met
• Ensure all relevant parties are aware of the teams status and progress
• Provide updates to the Technical Program Manager for incorporation into senior Stakeholder comms
• Proactively work with other Engineering teams within the department and Workstream Project Managers
• Identify and escalate risks; Propose and execute on strategic and tactical mitigation plans
• You will work with the team to ensure all the quality criteria for deployment to customers has been met and coordinate the deployment of the features with relevant teams.
• Ensure the team's status, key milestones and progress are accurately tracked and work with the team to identify impediments to their progress and support them in resolving these.
• Contribute towards and drive ways of working improvements

What you'll need:

3 years+ large scale technology experience and provide examples where you have demonstrated the following:

• Solid understanding of how complex technology products are delivered by multiple global teams.
• Designed and implemented continuous improvement across your team.
• Represented function/platform/service inside of a larger org.
• Proven experience of monitoring, tracking of tasks and dealt with blocked items.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and actively participate in team meetings.
• Complex project level execution with minimal guidance.
• Ability to leverage relationships and influence with key stakeholder groups to support effective communication.
• Mastery use of tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
• Created, owned and driven a project plan or roadmap and have followed it through to conclusion, adjusting and communicating revisions as the project progresses.
• Managed technical dependencies across multiple engineering platforms.
• Managed risks, issues mitigation and escalation.