Technical Project Manager II

Why PlayStation

PlayStation isnt just the Best Place to Play its also the Best Place to Work. Today were recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation5 PlayStation4 PlayStationVR PlayStationPlus acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation technology and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

At PlayStation were leading the revolution in cloud gaming as we push the boundaries of whats possible! Would you like to use your skills time and passion on meaningful projects that are building the future Were looking for people who want to make a difference love working with creative dedicated and collaborative teammates. If that sounds like something you would love to do we want to hear from you! Come help us build a world-class cloud platform capable of delivering fun and unique gaming experiences to millions of players.

As a Technical Project Manager you will work with our development teams to deliver and deploy consumer-facing software on a variety of devices. You will be responsible for working with both internal and external teams to define breakthroughs schedules and goals and then supervise the progress of the various projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise the tasks and deliverables of individual teams.
  • This role requires ongoing management of teams across two geographic areas Berlin Germany and California.
  • Occasional travel required attending in-person workshops or conferences in the US or internationally. Typically once per quarter or less.
• Work with team members to drive projects coordinate project activities and resolution of open issues.
• May be responsible for individual sub-components of larger projects.
• Assist with the coordination of projects gathering requirements identifying project vision and developing project schedules.
• Work with engineers creatives and management to maintain project schedules and to supervise influence and direct progress.
• Report project progress status and risks to project partners.
• Work with to handle project risk develop mitigation plans and raise decisions & unresolved issues.
• Ensure work is thoroughly tested meets all compliance requirements and is efficiently implemented.
• Manage the portfolio of a cross-functional and geographically distributed team of Business Analysts Data Engineers Service Reliability Engineers and Data Scientists working on data pipelines data transport transformation storage and analytics

Requirements

• At least 5-6 years of experience in Project Management and the full SDLC.
• Experience working on and shipping commercial software development projects.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven experience with modern software development methodologies especially SCRUM/Agile.
• Excellent communication expectation management and facilitation skills.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
• Expert in JIRA.

Desired Skills and Knowledge:

• SCRUM Master certified with experience operating and leading SCRUM teams.
• Commercial Software and/or Consumer Electronics experience is a plus.
• Experience in leading infrastructure platform or enablement programs for internal customers.
• Gaming and start-up experience is a plus.
• Programming or engineering education or background a plus.
• Experience in managing distributed storage solutions (e.g. Amazon S3 Ceph Hadoop etc.) is a plus.
• Experience in big data distributed messaging and processing technologies such as Apache Kafka Flink Spark
• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure AWS Google Cloud Platform

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity gender expression and gender reassignment) race (including colour nationality ethnic or national origin) religion or belief marital or civil partnership status disability age sexual orientation pregnancy maternity or parental status trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.