Technical Project Manager, GRCT

ZipRecruiter; Burgess Hill; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial services company as a Technical Project Manager, where you will drive Agile practices and collaborate with diverse teams to deliver impactful technology solutions. This role offers a chance to lead innovative projects and support your team's growth in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Competitive base salaries

Bonus incentives

Flexible working model

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision insurance

Generous paid parental leave policies

Career development and training opportunities

Qualifications

• 3+ years of technology delivery experience and project management.
• Experience coaching teams in Agile values and principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams’ agility using Agile/Scrum concepts.
• Facilitate sprint planning meetings and document solutions.
• Ensure value is achieved by the team on behalf of end users.

Skills

Agile

Project Management

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Advanced Degree

Tools

Rally

Jira

Job description

Job Description

This job is with American Express, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the + business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

The Global Risk and Compliance Technology (GRCT) Product Delivery and Integration team is seeking an innovative Technical Project Manager with a strong project management and technology mind-set.

How will you make an impact in this role?

This individual should be proficient in applying data driven insights in reporting and driving relevant outcomes. 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 GRCT PD&I team supporting delivery enablement. Directly support and lead engineering teams’ agility by demonstrating Agile/Scrum concepts and principles to support successful business outcomes.

• Work within GRCT and across partner/customer teams to implement defined project plans and initiatives
• Facilitate and lead technology conversations and document solutions
• Facilitate sprint planning meetings and other scrum ceremonies with delivery team
• Support product owners by ensuring backlog refinement and readiness
• Ensure dependency alignment across teams
• Implement the Program Increment (PI) objectives to support the strategy, vision and roadmap
• Collaborate with other Technical Project Managers (TPM) to coordinate cross-team dependencies and other teams within the organization.
• Ensure value is achieved by the team on behalf of end users
• Work with the product owner to develop a prioritized team backlog
• Create metrics driven insights into the delivery and execution of the team using relevant team level metrics
• Raise impediments, handle risks, dependencies, and resourcing needs
• Support and encourage innovation through continuous exploration
• Drive Agile team objectives
• Provide awareness of gaps, issues, risks, and opportunities across Agile teams

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Business Management, or other technology field, or equivalent work experience required; Advanced degree preferred.
• 3+ years of technology delivery experience and project management with a demonstrated track record of growing responsibility.
• Experience tracking iteration progress in Rally/Jira, issue resolution, and removing obstacles to ensure sprint/iteration commitments are met.
• Experience working in partnership with Product Owners and the core and extended team to build and prioritize the product backlog.
• Experience coaching teams to embrace the Technology SDLC process, Agile values, principles and practices, and actively inspire teams to reflect and improve their delivery capacity.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• 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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

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