Technical Project Manager

Overview

Remote
On Site
Hybrid
BASED ON EXPERIENCE
Full Time
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2

Skills

PROJECT MANAGER
TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER
PMP
SDLC
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
MERGERS and ACQUISTIONS
M and A
BUSINESS CONTINUITY

Job Details

Title: Technical Program Manager / Project Manager
Location: California / Washington / Nevada / Arizona / Remote


Ekman Associates, Inc. is a Southern California based company focused on the following services: Management Consulting, Professional Staffing Solutions, Executive Recruiting and Managed Services.

Summary: We are seeking a highly talented and motivated Technical Program / Project Manager that is able to manage multiple complex programs / projects and drive results. This role is responsible for four separate areas: M&A, Business Continuity, Software Development and Technical Integration. This role requires that you have the ability to quickly building rapport across multidisciplinary teams.

Key Skill Set:
  • Mandatory: Experience managing large complex programs / projects.
  • Ability to manage M&A initiatives
  • Ability to manage Business Continuity projects.
  • Ability to manage Software Development and Technical Integration projects.
  • PMP, Agile / Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
  • Lead execution and delivery of solutions to resolve business problems via strategic thinking and on-the-ground leadership.
  • Drive and influence technical strategy, proactively identify problems, align on priorities, and set direction for a broadly cross-functional area.
  • Build strong, trusting partnerships to readily mobilize people and influence across a broad range of partners, leaders, and organizations without authority.
  • Deliver timely, effective, easily understandable, concise project deliverables including project plans, presentations, budget reviews, cross-project dependencies, risks analyses and mitigation, strategies, stakeholder coordination and status communication.
  • Communicate across audiences, effectively understanding and utilizing escalation paths, and updating stakeholders.
  • Ability to translate technical rollouts and features to non-technical audiences.
  • Handle high volume workloads and provide exceptional customer support.
  • Accountable for driving delivery of projects from start to finish.
  • Ability to manages external resources; vendors and contractors when required.
  • Drive sprints and scrums across various teams where appliable
  • Independently manage teams and help groups problem solve.
  • Facilitate meetings, discussions and document key decisions made.
  • Manage tight deadlines.
  • Effectively manage stress in accomplishing the foregoing list.
Qualifications:
  • BA/BS in business, computer science preferred or other technical field or appropriate work experience 5+ years of applicable experience in a technology environment, preferably for a large company. Demonstrated success in the delivery of multiple projects.
  • PMP or CSM Certifications
  • Experience managing M&A projects from an IT perspective.
  • Experience managing Business Continuity Projects.
  • Experience managing complex software development and integration projects
  • Ability to work on multiple teams in highly autonomous environments.
  • Display a competency in managing multiple projects.
  • Project Management expertise and experience.
  • Detailed oriented, task master and communicator.
  • Aligns and leads project teams to achieve desired business outcomes.
  • Manages work with practicality and wisdom in the midst of competing priorities and diverse personalities.
  • Ability to influence internal and external team members without direct reporting authority
  • Experience with communicating sensitive and impactful changes to a broad technical audience.
  • Experience distilling complex technical information and conveying to different types of audiences to enable quick decisioning.
  • Strategic thinker with analytical and technology focused problem-solving experience.
  • Experience with demonstrating negotiation and conflict management.
  • Demonstrated experience with operating autonomously across multiple teams to foster cross-functional working relationships. Includes working with and communicating with multiple partner teams and cross-functional partners.
  • Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones.
  • Results-oriented, high energy, self-motivated.
Qualified Candidates Only: If you wish to learn more about this opportunity and additional qualifications/responsibilities, please submit your resume. To learn more about Ekman Associates, Inc. please visit our website at

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