Technical Project Director

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Perform project management for the full project lifecycle development and implementation of technical activities that ensure successful project completion.

- Serve as the point of contact and client interface for project technology related issues.

- Manage project expectations, evaluate project needs, and communicate with stakeholders to ensure that program needs are met with respect to urgency and priority.

- Develop trust, credibility, and strong client relationships; seek opportunities to add value to internal and external client initiatives.

- Review all project deliverables to ensure quality and accuracy meet project, stakeholder, and contractual standards.

- Execute all project management functions including; work breakdown and cost estimation, scheduling, monitoring and tracking of technical progress against the defined timetables and budgets, and staff assignment and development.

- Lead and direct the successful delivery of application development, systems integration, infrastructure, and product installation/customization services while ensuring that assigned projects adhere to the approved life cycle work patterns, standards, and procedures for solution delivery.

- Frequently responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees across the organization within area of expertise.

- Responsible for developing mid-to-long-term plans on how to optimize the project/program and the talent required to execute strategies for the area of responsibility.

- Define and implement development plans for assigned projects.

- Identify and assess new functional capabilities supporting engineering change proposals and additional follow up work.

- Identify, track, manage, and communicate risks and issues with stakeholders and upper management.

- Ensure that all appropriate costs are included in quarterly forecasts.

- Coordinate, prepare, and manage technical presentations and functional demonstrations to internal and external stakeholders.

- Responsible for adhering to established safety standards.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Serve as the primary delivery leader and central point of contact.

- Direct end-to-end execution of complex enterprise technology initiatives.

- Lead integrated planning and execution across engineering, product, operations, security, finance, contracts, and business stakeholders.

- Work closely with the Chief Software Engineer and Product Owner to ensure coordinated delivery, requirements alignment, and timely issue resolution.

- Lead program kickoffs, governance forums, and weekly, monthly, and quarterly delivery reviews, ensuring leadership has clear visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and corrective actions.

- Champion Agile delivery practices across multiple teams and workstreams.

- Leverage AI-enabled tools, automation, and data-driven insights to improve delivery planning, reporting, risk ide...