Technical Project Manager

New American Funding is seeking a highly skilled Technical Project Manager to work with their Initiative Management Office team. The role involves managing multiple projects, overseeing teams, and ensuring successful project execution while maintaining strategic alignment with the company’s goals.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the day-to-day operational aspects of multiple projects
• Drive cross-functional teams
• Lead agile teams to achieve goals and high level of performance
• Management of all agile project team activities and promote Agile mindset
• Facilitate meetings including preparing agendas, scheduling, materials needed, meeting minutes, follow-up or action items and distributing said documentation
• Manage resources and capacity planning
• Monitor project workflow and make timeline adjustments as needed
• Oversee development and project metrics
• Coordinate with stakeholder’s project or initiative approval, priorities and roadmap, forecasting and preparing workload, backlog grooming and change management
• Proactively work with associated teams to manage dependencies, integrations and testing activities
• Make vital decisions and/or escalate issues and drive/follow-up on decision making process across projects
• Reporting to management on project status
• Plan, schedule and execute releases and manage risks and dependencies with other projects
• Required to perform duties outside of normal work hours based on business needs and release schedule

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of Project Management, Scrum theory, rules and practices
• Experience in estimation and planning and implementing Agile/Scrum
• Experience facilitating Agile Ceremonies
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, detail oriented, proactive and can be self-directed
• Ability to identify, manage, track and drive action items
• Ability to deal with ambiguous information and situations
• Risk management and obstacle remediation
• Experience using Agile tools such Azure DevOps, MS Teams
• PMP or Project Management Certification or 3-5 years' experience working with multiple projects across multiple teams in an Agile environment
• Experience with mortgage servicing or data engineering preferred
• Mortgage experience a plus
• Scrum Master Certification a plus