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Overview
The Technical Project Lead is responsible for providing guidance and assistance towards the overall project’s technical solution and implementation. They own the technical delivery on end-to-end basis and have the workstreams report to them. The Technical Project Lead has knowledge of all areas of the project and can provide support and guidance as needed to the various project resources and Project stakeholders and participants. Technical Lead is also responsible for providing technical support for the project technical workstreams (SCADA, SOM, OMS and ADMS) where and when required. They also assist the solution vendor troubleshoot and resolve all escalated technical issues.
In addition, the Technical Lead works with Client’s Enterprise Architecture and System Development teams to ensure that the solution meats and respects both Client’s requirements and are aligned with the application vendors solution. They will assist Client’s team in ensuring that all project Architecture artifacts are completed and up to date.
Responsibilities
- The Technical Project Lead will be co-responsible to deliver this project to completion and owns the technical scope for the project. The responsibility is co-shared with the Customer project manager and the Customer CTO, who both report to the Executive Project sponsor at the TRC Customer
- Provide substantiated analysis of the best technical segmentation of the project to enable a consistent incremental delivery of the solution that benefits the time-to-value for TRC customers and is fully adopted by the Customer end-users
- Provide guidance to all customer technical leads involved in the project to establish a clear and consensual view of the content to deliver at every step of the project delivery and the interdependencies across project streams
- Contribute to the planning of the overall project, and upcoming sprints. He/she will ensure that all technical dependencies are covered with a plan.
- Collaborate with the customer technical leads to come-up with and maintain a list of technical gaps vs the requirements and will contribute to the resolution of the gaps with the technology provider.
- Conduct on-demand analysis and recommendations of the technical options to resolve gaps to facilitate decision making by the Customer executive level. Those can cover all domains: SCADA, EMS, DMS, OMS, GMS.
- Contribute to the technical consistency validation of the backlog at the beginning of each step, to ensure that it matches the overall plan for the project execution
- Contribute to the definition and adoption by all project members (Customer and Supplier) of the process to use Software Management Tools such as Jira/Confluence.
- Will contribute to the definition and adoption by all project members (Customer and Supplier) of a data-based physical progress measurement on all project streams
- Participate to the project governance and own the reporting on major technical roadblocks resolution.
- Ensure that de delivered solution is compliant with the contractual requirements and that any gaps is covered with a scope change agreement.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 15 years Technical Leadership/Project Management experience in the utility domain
- Previous experience with products from one of the major SCADA/EMS/DMS providers including GE, OSII, ABB, AVEVA (Schneider), Siemens, etc.
- Excellent organizational, decision making, and communication skills.
- Ability to self-direct and work independently as well as in a team environment.
- Excellent team building and motivational skills
- Experience with SCADA/EMS/DMS installations, data migration, configurations, testing, troubleshooting and deployments.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills including the ability to clearly present information to various audiences in both formal and informal settings French speaking is a strong value-add
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
Benefits*:TRC offers a competitive benefit package consisting of:
- Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance.
- 401k package that includes both traditional and Roth IRA options and Company match.
- Paid time off contingent upon full time or part time status and level of seniority (ranging from 15 to 25 days per year).
- All full-time employees enjoy a minimum of 8 Paid Holidays per year.
- TRC ensures that all employees, including those that work part-time, receive paid sick, family, and disability leave in accordance with the laws of their state of residence.
*These benefits are applicable to US employees depending on their employment status (full time, part time, or temporary). TRC offers jurisdiction specific benefit packages for International and Puerto Rico employees.
Compensation: Compensation will vary based upon experience, education, skill level, geographical location, and other compensable factors.
Other Compensation: Employee may be eligible for participation in the Company’s annual Discretionary Bonus Program which is contingent on Company, Business Segment, and Individual performance against Key Performance Indicators which vary by year and employee.
Disclaimers
TRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. All employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
The complete job description and application are available on TRC’s career site.
TRC accepts applications for this position on an ongoing, rolling basis and reserves the right to cancel this posting at any time.