- Initiates, plans, controls, and implements medium to large cross-divisional, multi-year programs and 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
- 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
- 5-10 years Project Management experience with expertise on Master Data Management, Devops and CD/CI tools for Data Platform
- 5+ years' experience in Retail applications , development, and delivery (highly valued)
- Proven experience in technical delivery of solutions in Data /Data Analytics space
- 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, SAFe 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, Kafka, ANAPLAN Airflow 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
- 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