GSPANN - Technical Program Manager

Experience and Skillset : - Initiates, plans, controls, and implements medium to large cross-divisional, multi-year projects utilizing Client's project management practices. - Ensures overall deliverables are completed, including project charter, plan, schedule, requirements, design, development, testing, implementation, policies and procedures, standards, contracts, risks, and issues resolutions. - Plans projects in detail, develops and manages project budgets, organizes project teams and works with resource managers to coordinate and align resource needs. - Identifies, evaluates, and proactively manages cross-project interdependencies. - Manages progress of efforts and communicates status to sponsors, stakeholders on a regular basis and to senior leadership as needed. - Participates in strategic roadmap planning and may facilitate and provide materials for portfolio review meetings. - Excellent communication skills, able to flex style and work with all levels within the organization from individual contributors to Executives. - Proactively identify opportunities and contribute to continuous business process improvement efforts to help streamline and standardize workflow, communication, and resource efficiencies utilizing relative process improvement techniques and methodologies. - Ensures smooth implementation of new technologies and vendor integrations by using their expertise on their assigned domains and interfaces. - May conduct technical walkthroughs with software engineers to ensure technical feasibility and standards across departments. - Collaborates with operations support and other teams to ensure robust production operations. Qualifications : - Bachelor's degree in computer science/information technology, or in a related technical field or equivalent technology experience. - Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible, post-baccalaureate work experience designing, developing, and implementing computer software projects utilizing open-source services framework. - Minimum 10+ years Project Management experience. - 5+ years' experience in Retail Systems, development, and delivery (highly valued). - Experience creating and executing implementation strategies for complex systems. - Strong relationship management skills and understanding of organizational change management. - Understanding of various delivery frameworks and practices (Waterfall, Agile, DevOps, Lean, etc.) and appropriate application of them. - Ability to apply highly complex principles, theories and concepts of the technical discipline and provide solutions to a wide range of complex tasks, projects, and problem. - Ability to determine estimates of effort and impacts for a variety of solutions and influence technical discussions and decisions. - Experience in working with distributed Unix or Linux-based systems, Python J2EE Application Servers, clustered DB systems and source control systems. - Strong organizational skills with the ability to track and prioritize numerous tasks and to coordinate activities with a high sense of urgency. - Excellent presentation, verbal, written, interpersonal and listening skills. - Strong interpersonal and leadership skills including collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation. - Strong collaboration skills to achieve business goals collectively across broad teams. - Challenges the status quo, champions change and influences others to change. Must-haves : - Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life. - Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results. - Communicates with honesty and kindness and creates the space for others to do the same. - Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure. - Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships. - Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka does not take themselves too seriously. Total Experience : 16 - 22 years