Job Title: IT Project Manager

Job Location: 7079 S Kirkman Rd, Orlando, FL 32819

Duration: 18 months

Shift Schedule: Monday–Thursday onsite; Friday remote (subject to change)

Summary:

As a Senior Technical Project Manager, you will identify, plan, and coordinate a set of related projects within a program and manage their interdependencies in support of specific business strategies. You will apply project management principles and techniques to lead project schedule, product, quality, cost, and performance risks. The Senior Technical Project Manager will work closely with cross-discipline technology teams, leadership, and business partners to understand technical and business direction, milestones, and budget, as well as provide thought leadership to the project management team. This role supports the Client (DCP) portfolio (Branded Retail and Stores, Licensing and Publishing).

Responsibilities:

• Drives execution and delivery of technical projects through full delivery life cycle ensuring project is delivered timely and on-budget.
• Works with engineering teams, including Software Engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and leadership to establish processes across all program areas that will ensure success on strategically prioritized projects and improve efficiency.
• Defines, optimizes, and manages Agile project management ceremonies and processes for large project teams.
• Maintain monthly forecast submissions, including adjustments to resource allocations, vendor payment schedules, and forecasts for partner teams.
• Conduct regular program status meetings with all partners, ensuring needs and requirements are met.
• Build program reports and dashboards for program management, sponsors, and partners.
• Monitors & adjusts program plan to respond to unplanned changes, ensuring program is progressing to meet business goals.
• Act as a primary liaison among multiple teams, including Product Management, Design, Technology, vendors, and other key functional delivery teams.
• Lead project delivery by coordinating cross-functional dependencies, resolving blockers, and managing RAID to ensure milestones stay on track.
• Escalate key issues and risks to ensure timely resolution and mitigation.
• Ensure proper project closure including lessons learned, transition and hand-off to production operations support, and final financial reporting.
• Own Jira and Confluence administration, governance, and executive reporting, ensuring consistent Agile processes, traceability, and delivery visibility.
• Drive roadmap planning, dependency mapping, and infrastructure migration coordination using Advanced Roadmaps and aligned tracking artifacts.
• Support cross-functional teams through training, coaching, and program level coordination across Scrum teams and vendors.
• Support Jira Cloud migration readiness, including cleanup, process alignment, and adoption support.

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years of technical project/program management experience working with technical teams developing enterprise class solutions.
• 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.
• Experience and knowledge of AI emerging technologies, nomenclature and strategies.
• Excellent ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of a project.
• Experience managing large project budgets.
• Experience with tools such as: Microsoft suite, Keynote, Smartsheet, MyPPM (Clarity), MyJira, Tableau, Claude, and PowerBI.