Manager Tech Project Management

At American Express our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation shared values and Leadership Behaviors and an unwavering commitment to back our customers communities and colleagues. As part of Team Amex youll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills develop as a leader and grow your career.

Here your voice and ideas matter your work makes an impact and together you will help us define the future of American Express.

How will you make an impact in this role

As a Technical Project Manager on our diverse tech team you will lead cross-functional project and program teams and work with internal customers to establish and interpret project/program objectives into solutions. This role will collaborate closely with Product Engineers Architects Leadership and other key partners to ensure completeness and efficiency of solutions while ensuring alignment to standards. Delivering value-based outcomes using Agile practices and processes is key to this role equally important is the ability to understand the products and functionality in support of platforms within Technology.

In this role you will actively drive processes and execution as part of the Merchant Data Products Delivery. Directly support and lead engineering teams agility by demonstrating Agile/Scrum concepts and principles to support successful business outcomes.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Facilitate and lead technical conversations (e.g. relating to architectural approach and system design) and documents solutions.
• Drive team/release level processes demonstrating servant leadershipcoupled with domain knowledge and technical acumen.
• Facilitate Sprint planning meetings and other Scrum ceremonies withdelivery team.
• Ensures dependency alignment across teams.
• Execute the Program Increment (PI) objectives to support the strategyvision and road map
• Ensure value is achieved by the team on behalf of end users.
• Work in partnership with Product Owners and the core and extended team to build and prioritize the product backlog.
• Support product owners by ensuring backlog refinement and readiness.
• Collaborate with other Technical Project Managers (TPM) to coordinatecross-team dependencies and other teams within the organization.
• Create metrics driven insights into the delivery and execution of the team using relevant team level metrics.
• Responsible for tracking iteration progress actively adding to designdiscussions issue resolution and removing obstacles to ensure sprint/iteration commitments are met.
• Support and encourage innovation through continuous exploration.
• Drive Agile team objectives.
• Provide visibility into gaps issues risks and opportunities across Agileteams.
• Measure user story execution
• Coach teams to embrace the Technology SDLC process Agile valuesprinciples and practices and actively inspire teams to reflect and improve their delivery capacity

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in technology related subject area or equivalent experience required.
• 8 years of technical project management experience.
• Experience leading Agile Scrum or other rapid application development teams to deliver technology solutions that meet customer expectations for timeliness and quality
• Experience in clarifying objectives dealing with ambiguity/under-defined problems advocating for simplification and influencing
• Excellent oral and written skills; Ability to efficiently communicate across product technology and business partners
• Ability to deliver complex software iteratively and with quality
• Experience using Rally delivery management platform is required
• Deep understanding of Agile at Scale or iterative development processes including quality and testing standard practices
• Experience managing multiple initiatives priorities and teams.
• PMI Certification is a plus.
• Scrum Master Certification is a plus.

Salary Range: $110000.00 to $190000.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately in determining your pay well consider your location experience and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones physical financial and mental health as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical dental vision life insurance and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents regardless of gender offered for pregnancy adoption or surrogacy
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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