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Dimensional Fund Advisors · 4 months ago

Lead Technical Delivery Manager

Austin, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Dimensional Fund Advisors is a firm built around a set of ideas bigger than itself, focusing on implementation and leveraging technology for financial products. The Lead Technical Delivery Manager will coordinate the delivery of multiple initiatives for the Database Platform products, ensuring alignment with technological complexity and business requirements while working across various teams and stakeholders.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Accountable for the delivery of all Database Platform technology roadmaps, ensuring proper SDLC frameworks and processes are implemented to support the organization. This role will drive new feature development through every stage of the agile software development lifecycle. Coordination of program level build schedules, environment downtime, defect resolution ownership, highlights deadlines to meet timelines

Define objectives with measurable results through data driven insights to ensure our customers, partners and internal teams are successful. Understand trade-offs between cost, schedule, customer benefit; and provide technical direction/guidance

Serve as a go-to expert within the Data Platform Technology space in the areas of functionality, integrations, interdependencies, and solution architecture for database platform technology. Collaborate and solution with engineering teams when technical challenges arise to ensure proper platform product delivery

Coach the entire program team in empowerment / self-organization and act as a servant leader for the engineering team

Collaborate with other teams to define SDLC best practices and create delivery frameworks to measure overall team success

Proactively manage stakeholder groups across various business pillars to establish interdependencies, identify risks and resource constraints, and eliminate significant roadblocks in a timely fashion. Accountable for resolving all roadblocks that would cause products not to release including risk management & removing impediments

Create reports and analysis based on business goals and forecasts to understand progress, gaps, risks, and mitigation plans for objectives and key results. This will include but is not limited to product delivery release reports, program backlogs and epic burn ups. Maintain and publish all operational reporting for database technology platforms and stakeholder health

Elicit stakeholder feedback to map out key business processes, develop high level engineering requirements, build executable roadmaps, and form technology initiative recommendations

Run scrum teams and coach team members on the scrum processes, including running ceremonies, planning, retros, backlog refinement, team velocity, and burndown. Serve as an agile coach and prepare other team members to step into the Scrummaster role

Qualification

Database platformsAgile/SCRUM methodologiesTechnical Program ManagementTechnical Product ManagementSolution ArchitectureData analysisAgile coachingStakeholder managementRisk managementSDLC best practicesAnalysisScrum ceremoniesMS ExcelPowerPointConfluenceJiraSharePointCommunicationTeam leadershipProblem-solvingCollaborationProject Management

Required

10+ total years of experience in product engineering delivery orgs

5+ total years technical experience in database platforms

5+ years of experience in a Technical Program, Technical Product, Delivery Manager, or Solution Architecture role

Undergraduate degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience

Proven track record of successfully leading programs across engineering teams working on database platforms

Expert in Agile/SCRUM development methodologies with 10+ years of experience

Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to communicate complex concepts to various audiences helping them to understand the benefits of technologies and recommended course of action

Preferred

Certified Scrummaster (CSM) or PMP-ACP

Agile coaching experience or certification is also preferred

PMP or similar Program or Project Management certificate

Expertise with MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Project, as well as Confluence, Jira, and SharePoint

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits

Educational initiatives

Special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth

Company

Dimensional Fund Advisors

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Dimensional Fund Advisors is a company that provides asset management services.

Founded in 1981

Austin, Texas, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://us.dimensional.com

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