Sr Technical Project Manager - Data & Analytics

Data and Analytics (DnA) team is looking for a Sr. Tech. Project Manager (Development Director II) with experience in analytics and data.
Reporting to the Sr. Director of Development, you will plan out execution for multiple programs across our vast portfolio of project (live and in development). This is an incredible opportunity to ensure game teams and partner teams have access to technologies and deliver great games to our players and grow our business.
You will..

• Partner with DDs at all levels to train them and provide mentorship
• Establish direction & strategy for multiple complex projects/teams while ensuring alignment with internal & external leadership
• Monitor & adjust capacity plans for multiple complex projects/teams to address skill gaps and identify funding needs
• Lead the budget for multiple complex projects/teams and partnering with finance to maintain a healthy budget
• Establish team health standards through team leaders
• Plan schedules, and status reports across multiple complex projects/teams
• Implement change management processes to communicate and measure the effectiveness of project-wide change
• Solve Data & Analytics dependencies between the project and external groups
• Implement process improvement plans across full projects or multiple teams
• Be the one removing roadblocks

What a Development Director At EA Does

• Take ownership of your role
• Drive execution from concept to live (estimates, tasks, change requests, bugs)
• Establish trust and credibility with team leadership as well as studio leadership
• Organise, lead daily stand-ups, grooming, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives and other team meetings with your scrum team(s)
• Refine backlog and help with prioritisation for their team(s) backlog
• Form close working relationships with discipline leads, provide regular coaching and mentoring
• Manage partner communication and requirements
• Create work estimates, track progress, and report status in the form of burn up/down charts
• Coordinate dependencies with external parties across the company
• Evaluate individual performance and potential of team members, provide appropriate recognition or constructive feedback
• Be a scrum master for a cross-functional development team
• Attend daily stand-ups with your team
• Develop a repeatable structured approach for capturing and describing the key enterprise information
• Understand the business priorities and keep the team on track by encouraging communication and collaboration

Qualifications

• 7+ years working as a project manager
• Experience with game development a plus
• 5+ years of experience working in a Software Development industry, and you have released multiple solutions while seeing them through all phases of the development life cycle.
• Passionate about managing projects
• Experience working in or managing a co-development environment a strong plus
• Have experience managing internal and external teams
• Have many conflict resolution tools in your tool belt.
• The ability to always know the status of your project and can visualize that status for any audience
• The ability to talk across all levels of an organisation
• Great communication skills