Technical Project Manager at TechAdvance

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Virtual
Reporting Line: Chief Technology Officer

Job Purpose

• The purpose of this role is to manage the technical projects, incumbent will partner lwith eadership, production and technical teams to develop product roadmaps and ensure successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Create user stories & acceptance criteria
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements
• Partner with leadership, production and technical teams to develop product roadmaps.
• Backlog management, iteration, planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Participate in the technical design, and the development of functional specifications
• Lead the development team
• Ensure clean and well-documented code
• Manage the project to ensure successful delivery
• Track and report project progress
• Manage communication with all stakeholders
• Remove blockers, manage risks to help team deliver on the company's goals and objectives

The Ideal Person
The Ideal candidate must have;

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Leadership experience and strong teaming abilities
• Minimum 2 Years of experience in IT project management or a related field.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Solid understanding of software development life-cycle best practices
• An ability to drive to big picture goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail
• Solid technical background, with understanding or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, fluent in English
• A problem-solving, analytical mindset and strong decision-making capabilities
• Ability to communicate effectively with teams and clients
• Effectively lead teams and inspire others to achieve goals through innovation, quality and excellence
• Experience in troubleshooting, software development processes and ability to understand and implement client requirements.
• Possesses good knowledge of different software systems, client/server architectures and various compatibility requirements.
• Solid knowledge of technical development concepts, latest software tools and technologies, strong database concepts and designing techniques.