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Lead Technical Project Manager - Project Hire at Walt Disney | LAYIQ

Strategic Program & Project Leadership
Lead high-priority, multi-site strategic programs and cross-functional projects through the full delivery lifecycle, ensuring timely and on-budget delivery.
Collaborate with engineering teams (Software Engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and leadership) to establish scalable processes that drive success and efficiency across program areas.
Guide and support junior technical project managers throughout the project lifecycle.
Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to align engineering efforts with program goals.
Agile & Operational Excellence
Define, optimize, and manage Agile ceremonies and processes at the team-of-teams level.
Maintain accurate project documentation including scope, RAID logs, plans, and budgets.
Financial & Resource Management
Reconcile actuals, adjust forecasts, and communicate budget updates and billing changes to leadership.
Align resource capacity with project plans and collaborate with managers to balance workload and budget.
Risk, Issue & Scope Management
Anticipate and mitigate risks; manage scope changes and assess impact on timelines and budgets.
Communicate risks, issues, and solutions transparently to stakeholders.
Stakeholder Engagement & Reporting
Lead stakeholder coordination and ensure alignment on goals and timelines.
Own communication plans, manage expectations, and deliver weekly updates, dashboards, and executive presentations.
Required Qualifications & Skills: 7+ years of technical project/program management experience working with technical teams developing enterprise class solutions
General understanding of 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, Waterfall and Hybrid as well as extensive experience with pragmatic blending of styles to facilitate collaboration and delivery
Strong ability to interpret and navigate architectural and technical aspects of complex projects and familiarity with Agile technical practices, DevOps and testing concepts (CI/CD, TDD)
Highly organized with exceptional time management and attention to detail
Proven experience managing large-scale budgets and financial oversight
Tools & Technologies: Office Productivity: Microsoft Office Suite, Keynote, Smartsheet
Project Management: MyPPM (Clarity), MyJira
Reporting & Analytics: Power BI

Lead Technical Project Manager - Project Hire

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