Technical Project Manager

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

- 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

- 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