Technical Project Manager

American Express

(New York, New York)

Full Time

Job Posting Details

About American Express

American Express is a global service company, providing customers with exceptional access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success.

Responsibilities

- Drives integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product owners, architects, engineers, and quality assurance
- Works within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases
- Manages and tracks team velocity, financials, and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports
- Assigns development resources to activities, and monitors performance across resource channels
- Maintains dependency plan between planned sprints across engineering, infrastructure, and third parties
- Manages, and appropriately escalates, delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the product development initiatives
- May perform hands-on reviews of product backlog, designs, code, test scripts, and results in addressing delivery impediments or product quality issues
- Ensures deliverables across engineering teams are high quality and clearly documented
- Conducts daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint, and ensures that the team is continuously learning from the past
- Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
- This “rebel with a cause” looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities

Drives integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product owners, architects, engineers, and quality assurance
Works within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases
Manages and tracks team velocity, financials, and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports
Assigns development resources to activities, and monitors performance across resource channels
Maintains dependency plan between planned sprints across engineering, infrastructure, and third parties
Manages, and appropriately escalates, delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the product development initiatives
May perform hands-on reviews of product backlog, designs, code, test scripts, and results in addressing delivery impediments or product quality issues
Ensures deliverables across engineering teams are high quality and clearly documented
Conducts daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint, and ensures that the team is continuously learning from the past
Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
This “rebel with a cause” looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities

Ideal Candidate

- 6+ years of technical project management experience
- Deep understanding of all aspects of software design with a demonstrated track record of increasing responsibility
- Coding experience and ability to review code with team members and help drive solutions
- Experience managing Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development teams to deliver technology solutions that meet customer expectations for timeliness and quality
- Experience managing project budgets and reporting
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; Ability to effectively communicate across third parties and technical and business product managers
- Ability to get industry leading solutions to market efficiently and effectively
- Experience in clarifying objectives, dealing with ambiguity/under-defined problems, advocating for simplification, and influencing teams
- Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation
- Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience, is preferred
- PMI certification is a plus
- Scrum Master certification is a plus
- Experience using Rally agile delivery management platform is a plus
- Experience with object-oriented design and coding skills across a variety of platforms (JAVA, HTML5, BLAZE, DB2, XML, and Mainframe) is a plus
- Experience with web services and open API development, as well as SOA concepts, is a plus
- Experience with payments technology and industry is a plus

6+ years of technical project management experience
Deep understanding of all aspects of software design with a demonstrated track record of increasing responsibility
Coding experience and ability to review code with team members and help drive solutions
Experience managing Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development teams to deliver technology solutions that meet customer expectations for timeliness and quality
Experience managing project budgets and reporting
Excellent oral and written communication skills; Ability to effectively communicate across third parties and technical and business product managers
Ability to get industry leading solutions to market efficiently and effectively
Experience in clarifying objectives, dealing with ambiguity/under-defined problems, advocating for simplification, and influencing teams
Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation
Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience, is preferred
PMI certification is a plus
Scrum Master certification is a plus
Experience using Rally agile delivery management platform is a plus
Experience with object-oriented design and coding skills across a variety of platforms (JAVA, HTML5, BLAZE, DB2, XML, and Mainframe) is a plus
Experience with web services and open API development, as well as SOA concepts, is a plus
Experience with payments technology and industry is a plus