Overview
Technical Project Manager Jobs in Johannesburg at Trustonic
Company Description
At Trustonic our products are making a difference across the world. One moment we’re ensuring low-income families worldwide can access the life-changing benefits of an internet-enabled smartphone. The next we’re protecting the safety and integrity of the vehicles we drive and the devices we care about.
We pride ourselves on living by the Trustonic culture code, a blueprint for our journey that recognises that great working environments don’t guarantee success, but bad ones almost always ensure failure.
Working here, you’ll find a company that celebrates its diversity and is looking to do the right thing: for each other, the community and the planet. We believe in equal opportunities and take to heart the old African proverb ’If you only want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together’.
We work flexibly when and where we’re at our best, but regardless of how you choose to work, we’ll make sure you feel like one of the team.
Click here if you would like to find out more about Trustonic’s culture code.
If you would like to work in a fast-moving global technology company, with great ambition, then we’d love to hear from you!
Job Description
We’re looking for a Technical Project Manager to join our Program Management & Operations (PMO) Team.
A bit about the team and what you’ll deliver…
The Program Management & Operations (PMO) Team is responsible for planning and delivering several product lines and Professional Services projects for various customers. As the Technical Project Manager, you will be in charge of managing, coordinating and overseeing some customer facing and internal projects related to one program. Some projects require a deep technical understanding and the ability to explain technically complex topics to a broader audience. You will also be involved in operational activities: procurement, suppliers management, costs, budgets, documents and reports. This involves close interactions with related product, engineering, QA, architecture, PMO, sales, finance teams and reporting via the PMO organisation.
As the Technical Project Manager, your main responsibilities include:
Initiating & Planning projects within a program
Organise project kick-off
Determine and define project scope and objectives
Foresee resources needs to reach the objectives
Facilitate project planning by prioritising tasks, identifying dependencies and work packages, setting deadlines and deliverables
Propose and oversee timelines for the projects
Executing projects within a program
Manage detailed and high-level project schedules and plans
Ensure resource availability and allocation
Operationally manage and coordinate internal and external resources efficiently
Liaise with product managers and other PMO colleagues to translate internal and customers roadmap and requirements into engineering plans, processes
Ensure plan accuracy and manage the associated risks
Ensure that all projects are delivered on time, within scope, within budget and quality
Provide regular project updates to various stakeholders
Communicate, report and collaborate consistently with other managers, suppliers, customers and contractors
Operational oversight, Monitoring & Controlling projects within a program
Monitor and track progress, change requests, risks
Assist with daily operational activities
Facilitate & coordinate procurement activities
Liaise with and manage relationships with suppliers
Plan purchase orders and check invoices
Prepare & maintain operations documents & reports
Report and escalate to management as needed
Measure performance and propose improvements
Review processes and ensure efficiency
Contribute to ISMS, GDPR, ISO9001 and ISO27001 processes and procedures
Review budget and reassess costs with PnL owners
Closing projects
Perform due diligence for necessary processes
Assess the strengths and the weakness and possibly organize a post-mortem
Use program/project management best practices, standards
Develop and maintain relationships with key internal stakeholders and executives
Who you are…
As a Technical Project Manager you:
have worked at a project/program coordination/management position before and have been able to plan big internal and customers challenges in a time constrained landscape using a limited number of resources
are familiar with complex technologies landscape or security software
are a team player
are able to thrive in a dynamic, constantly evolving, small team environment
are prepared to invest whatever effort is required to get the job done
operate with integrity and transparency and conduct business in a proper manner
have good creative intelligence
are tenacious with a problem-solving approach
are organised, rigorous and autonomous
What makes you, you…
As a Technical Project Manager you have the following skills/experience/knowledge:
A high degree of natural ability to be organised and organise others with influencing or external leadership skills
Self-motivated attitude with the ability to multitask and thrive in a timeline-driven environment
Interpersonal communication skills with expertise in distilling complicated topics to a broader audience internally (product management, exec team, broader engineering team, finance,) and externally (customers, suppliers, contractors)
Strong negotiation/mediation skills
Ability to motivate and drive focus for internal/external people not under direct reporting
Ability to problem-solve any challenge with creativity, organisation and patience
Strong ability to understand technically SaaS cloud based platforms (ideally on AWS), software development and migration projects
Ability to work in an international environment with distributed teams all around the world
Fluency in English is required as it is the business language in the Company
Fluency in the main regional/local languages is also required
The following skills would also be highly desirable:
Knowledge of software development lifecycle
Knowledge of PRINCE 2 or PMBOK is a plus
Knowledge of Agile approach: Scrum, Nexus
Knowledge of Scaled Agile frameworks: Scrum of Scrums is a plus
Knowledge of AWS cloud
Experience with cloud-to-cloud migration customers facing projects
Experience with Datawarehouse systems and associated data migration projects
Knowledge & practical use of ISO9001, ISO27001, GDPR standards is a plus
Use of JIRA Advanced Roadmap, MS Project or similar PPM/project management tools
Use of recent version of Microsoft Office tools
Awareness of security software and practices
Qualifications
Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in computer science, business or project management
Master’s degree in software engineering / project management, or equivalent experience preferred
Additional Information
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Trustonic is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on any grounds. We empower, engage, enable and value differences between people, including; different races, ethnicities, genders, ages, religions, disabilities and sexual orientations, with differences in education, backgrounds, skill sets, experiences and knowledge.
Title: Technical Project Manager
Company: Trustonic
Location: Johannesburg
