Technical Project Manager

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The candidate will work within and across workstreams for Common capabilities group and will focus on delivery of the Fusion Network Initiative. Leverages technical understanding to support executional certainty for product and engineering teams. Ensures visibility across stakeholder groups of outstanding issues, risks, and delivery status. Identifies, supports, and/or actions next steps to resolve impediments to delivery.

How will you make an impact in this role?

- Facilitates and Leads technical conversations (e.g., relating to architectural approach and system design) and documents solutions.
- Drives team/release level processes demonstrating servant leadership coupled with domain knowledge and technical savvy.
- Facilitates Sprint planning meetings and other Scrum ceremonies with delivery team.
- Support product owners by ensuring backlog refinement and readiness.
- Ensures dependency alignment across teams.
- Execute the Program Increment (PI) objectives to support the strategy, vision and road map
- Ensure value is achieved by the team on behalf of end users.
- Works with the product owner to develop a prioritize team backlog.
- Collaborates with other Technical Project Managers (TPM) to coordinate cross-team dependencies and other teams within the organization.
- Create metrics driven insights into the delivery and execution of the team using relevant team level metrics.
- Raises impediments, handles risks, dependencies, and resourcing needs.
- Support and encourage innovation through continuous exploration.
- Drive Agile team objectives.
- Provide visibility into gaps, issues, risks, and opportunities across Agile teams.
- Measure user story execution

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent work experience required; Advanced degree preferred. 
• 5+ years of technical delivery experience with a demonstrated track record of growing responsibility.
•  Works in partnership with Product Owners and the core and extended team to build and prioritize the product backlog.
• Responsible for tracking iteration progress, actively adding to design discussions, issue resolution, and removing obstacles to ensure
  sprint/iteration commitments are met.
• Coaches teams to embrace the Technology SDLC process, Agile values, principles and practices, and actively inspire teams to reflect and improve
  their delivery capacity

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) 
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program 
• Career development and training opportunities

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.  

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.