Disney
Lead Technical Project Manager
Disney, Tallahassee, Florida, United States,
Lead Technical Project Manager
Job ID:
10098008
Location:
Celebration, Florida, United States
Business:
Disney Experiences
Date posted:
Sep. 12, 2024
Job Summary:The Lead Technical Project Manager is responsible for all aspects of project management for large programs and projects.
This is a full-time role that sits in our Orlando Florida office.
About the Role & Team“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences - Technology & Digital. Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.
The DX Technology & Digital team is responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation, and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including the MyDisneyExperience and Hey, Disney!
What You Will Do
Work on high-priority, multi-site strategic programs
Lead and drive cross-functional projects, and individual project tracks through full delivery life cycle ensuring project is delivered timely and on-budget.
Work with engineering teams, including Software Engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and leadership to establish processes across all program areas that will ensure success on high priority business initiatives and improve efficiency.
Lead and direct junior technical project managers in the execution of their work during the project lifecycle.
Work with business leaders and key stakeholders to support engineering efforts for projects within a program.
Defines, optimizes, and manages Agile project management ceremonies and processes at the team-of-teams level.
Project Leadership, Planning and Execution
Lead and manage large-scale, complex programs and/or projects, ensuring seamless collaboration across various teams and workstreams.
Anticipate risks and develop mitigation plans; analyze mitigation plans and communicate plans to stakeholders.
Maintain accurate project documentation, including: RAID log, scope, project plans, budget, etc.
Articulate a technical solution into business strategy and understand the big picture as it relates to business value.
Financial Management
Reconcile project actuals and determine forecast course corrections.
Achieve a detailed understanding of how project is billed, including changes to forecast.
Maintain up-to-date budget documentation.
Proactively communicate forecast budget or changes to leadership.
Project Resource Management
Align resource capacity maps to project plans accounting for cross-project dependencies.
Drive integration with resource managers, delivery managers and leadership.
Monitor resource capacity, balancing work and budget (over/under).
Risk Management & Problem Solving
Manage scope changes and variances, assess impact to timeline and budget, and communicate.
Proactively collaborate and identify solutions to unexpected issues that arise to maintain progress.
Provide transparent communication of risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, scope change, impacts and solutions.
Stakeholder Communication & Management
Lead stakeholder coordination and engagement to ensure understanding of project requirements, scope, goals, priorities and timelines.
Engage stakeholders to ensure decision and change management processes are followed.
Create and own communication plan & cadence of project meetings.
Manage stakeholder expectations, build strong relationships and trust.
Transparent Project Reporting
Identify health/progress metrics.
Lead project meetings and maintain minutes, including purpose, agenda and deliverables and progress towards goals/milestones.
Prepare and distribute weekly status updates.
Enable data-driven storytelling with Data visualization.
Prepare and facilitate project status presentations, dashboards, risk assessments and data-driven storytelling for leadership and executives.
Required Qualifications & Skills
7+ years of technical project/program management experience working with technical teams developing enterprise class solutions.
Technical aptitude:
Understanding of Cloud, APIs, services, database technologies, technologist roles and responsibilities, capabilities & platform dependencies, software development lifecycle, engineering and/or product development.
Influence and negotiation, communication, professional maturity & organizational savvy, relationship building, dependency mapping.
Hands-on experience with practices such as Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall as well as extensive experience with pragmatic blending of styles to facilitate collaboration and delivery.
Deep understanding of Agile technical practices, DevOps and testing concepts (CI/CD, TDD).
Significant experience in coaching and mentoring teams on project management practices including Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall.
Excellent ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of projects.
Excellent organizational, communication (written and verbal) and time management skills with attention to detail.
Experience managing large budgets.
Tools:
Office productivity software, including Microsoft suite, Keynote, Smartsheet.
Project management software, including MyPPM (Clarity), MyJira.
Reporting tools, including Tableau, PowerBI.
Preferred Qualifications
Technical project management experience in Commerce or a related field.
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
Experience in supporting large-scale, global software development programs.
Agile Certifications ie CSM; ACP; CPO; SAFe; LeSS.
Education
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Finance, Accounting or equivalent relevant experience.
7+ years of relevant experience.
Preferred Education:
Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Finance, Accounting or related field or equivalent relevant experience.
5+ years of relevant experience.
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Job ID:
10098008
Location:
Celebration, Florida, United States
Business:
Disney Experiences
Date posted:
Sep. 12, 2024
Job Summary:The Lead Technical Project Manager is responsible for all aspects of project management for large programs and projects.
This is a full-time role that sits in our Orlando Florida office.
About the Role & Team“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences - Technology & Digital. Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.
The DX Technology & Digital team is responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation, and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including the MyDisneyExperience and Hey, Disney!
What You Will Do
Work on high-priority, multi-site strategic programs
Lead and drive cross-functional projects, and individual project tracks through full delivery life cycle ensuring project is delivered timely and on-budget.
Work with engineering teams, including Software Engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and leadership to establish processes across all program areas that will ensure success on high priority business initiatives and improve efficiency.
Lead and direct junior technical project managers in the execution of their work during the project lifecycle.
Work with business leaders and key stakeholders to support engineering efforts for projects within a program.
Defines, optimizes, and manages Agile project management ceremonies and processes at the team-of-teams level.
Project Leadership, Planning and Execution
Lead and manage large-scale, complex programs and/or projects, ensuring seamless collaboration across various teams and workstreams.
Anticipate risks and develop mitigation plans; analyze mitigation plans and communicate plans to stakeholders.
Maintain accurate project documentation, including: RAID log, scope, project plans, budget, etc.
Articulate a technical solution into business strategy and understand the big picture as it relates to business value.
Financial Management
Reconcile project actuals and determine forecast course corrections.
Achieve a detailed understanding of how project is billed, including changes to forecast.
Maintain up-to-date budget documentation.
Proactively communicate forecast budget or changes to leadership.
Project Resource Management
Align resource capacity maps to project plans accounting for cross-project dependencies.
Drive integration with resource managers, delivery managers and leadership.
Monitor resource capacity, balancing work and budget (over/under).
Risk Management & Problem Solving
Manage scope changes and variances, assess impact to timeline and budget, and communicate.
Proactively collaborate and identify solutions to unexpected issues that arise to maintain progress.
Provide transparent communication of risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, scope change, impacts and solutions.
Stakeholder Communication & Management
Lead stakeholder coordination and engagement to ensure understanding of project requirements, scope, goals, priorities and timelines.
Engage stakeholders to ensure decision and change management processes are followed.
Create and own communication plan & cadence of project meetings.
Manage stakeholder expectations, build strong relationships and trust.
Transparent Project Reporting
Identify health/progress metrics.
Lead project meetings and maintain minutes, including purpose, agenda and deliverables and progress towards goals/milestones.
Prepare and distribute weekly status updates.
Enable data-driven storytelling with Data visualization.
Prepare and facilitate project status presentations, dashboards, risk assessments and data-driven storytelling for leadership and executives.
Required Qualifications & Skills
7+ years of technical project/program management experience working with technical teams developing enterprise class solutions.
Technical aptitude:
Understanding of Cloud, APIs, services, database technologies, technologist roles and responsibilities, capabilities & platform dependencies, software development lifecycle, engineering and/or product development.
Influence and negotiation, communication, professional maturity & organizational savvy, relationship building, dependency mapping.
Hands-on experience with practices such as Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall as well as extensive experience with pragmatic blending of styles to facilitate collaboration and delivery.
Deep understanding of Agile technical practices, DevOps and testing concepts (CI/CD, TDD).
Significant experience in coaching and mentoring teams on project management practices including Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall.
Excellent ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of projects.
Excellent organizational, communication (written and verbal) and time management skills with attention to detail.
Experience managing large budgets.
Tools:
Office productivity software, including Microsoft suite, Keynote, Smartsheet.
Project management software, including MyPPM (Clarity), MyJira.
Reporting tools, including Tableau, PowerBI.
Preferred Qualifications
Technical project management experience in Commerce or a related field.
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
Experience in supporting large-scale, global software development programs.
Agile Certifications ie CSM; ACP; CPO; SAFe; LeSS.
Education
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Finance, Accounting or equivalent relevant experience.
7+ years of relevant experience.
Preferred Education:
Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Finance, Accounting or related field or equivalent relevant experience.
5+ years of relevant experience.
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