Technical Programme Manager - Contract
Talent Genie
- Randburg, Johannesburg
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide a future state oriented cultural overlay with technology staff to ensure focus on future state operating model and avoidance of historical pitfalls
- Ensure suitable and consistent delivery approach (both technology and general management),
- Drive agile IT delivery process within a waterfall programme context
- Component readiness for testing, especially integration testing phases
- Ensure component testing for all technology deliverables is completed or entry to integration testing
- Ensure technology plans are coherent across the programme
- Surface technology inter-dependencies and ensure these are delivered to across all technology component delivery
- Intervene and escalate where this is not the case i.e. Where project delivery is at odds with programme outcomes and escalate where otherwise
- Ensure an integrated plan for environment utilization for development purposes and input to test environment planning
- Adherence to business architecture stipulations, challenging both projects and Architecture decision-making where business outcome/delivery timeline are not optimized.
- Architectural accountability to programme for internally developed components with externally developed components driven only at an integration level.
- Take part in Design Authority as part of responsibility to drive coherence across architecture, ensuring all technology deliverables are coherent with agreed Business Architecture
- Facilitate business PMs in understanding the current state and challenges of all technology delivery
- Provide progress evidence of technology plan and delivery coherence across the projects, especially when aligning to integration test phases.
- Drive visibility of vendor technology component delivery through appropriate trackers, issue transparency and escalation
- Strong project management skills, including the ability to plan, organize, and execute projects from initiation to completion
- Ability to establish strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external clients
- Excellent client-centricity skills and ability to work at client sites
- Ability to manage customer satisfaction, commitment, and expectations to high service levels and manage escalations adequately
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent team-building skills and ability to work in high-pressure environments
- Ability to manage urgent and complex tasks simultaneously
- Good business acumen and commercial skills
- Passionate, strong initiative, self-driven with a commitment to succeed
- Good influencing ability whilst taking a collaborative approach
- Decisive with good attention to detail ability
- Ability to promote project services to both internal stakeholders and external clients
- Competent in project change management
- Familiarity with the industry, domain, or technology related to the client's project
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills to identify and address issues that may arise during project implementation
- Works on issues that impact future success or addresses future concepts and products where solutions are devised based on limited information and requires judgment
- Advanced Business and / or Project Management degree or equivalent with extensive related experience
- Relevant project management certifications preferably PMP
- ITIL certification
- 5+ years of experience in the IT field.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field required
- 5+ years of experience in software development, with at least two years of experience as a technical programme manager
- Experience in development and delivery of complex business applications, including: web based f
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