Technical Project Manager

Job Title - Technical Project Manager (Vendor Integration)

Location - Minneapolis, MN/Denver, CO (Onsite)

Salary: $150k/Annum plus benefits

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Vendor Management

• Technical Project Management

• Dependency Management

• RAID Management

• Release Planning

• Governance & Reporting

• Executive Communication

• Data Quality Frameworks

• Event-Driven Architectures

• Enterprise Integration Patterns

• API & Web Services

• Middleware Platforms

• System Integration Testing

• Data Mapping & Interfaces

• End-to-End Solution Delivery

• Stakeholder Management

• Negotiation & Influencing

• Problem Solving

• Conflict Resolution

• Cross-functional Leadership

Roles & Responsibilities

• Act as the primary point of contact for all vendor applications interfacing with the core enterprise platform.

• Establish delivery plans, milestones, and integration schedules with vendors.

• Monitor vendor progress against commitments and proactively manage schedule variances.

• Ensure vendors provide accurate status reporting, deliverables, and risk assessments.

• Escalate delivery issues and coordinate remediation plans to avoid program impacts.

• Collaborate with business, platform, and integration teams to communicate functional and technical

requirements to vendors.

• Ensure vendor solutions align with approved business processes, architecture standards, and integration

patterns.

• Facilitate requirement clarification sessions and design reviews.

• Validate completeness of vendor requirements traceability and solution documentation.

• Coordinate end-to-end interface development between vendor applications and core enterprise systems.

• Track integration dependencies, interface specifications, data mapping, and API/service development

activities.

• Ensure coordination of SIT, UAT, performance, and cutover activities involving vendor systems.

• Manage cross-system issue resolution during testing and deployment phases.

• Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies).

• Conduct regular vendor governance and status meetings.

• Develop executive-ready status reports highlighting schedule, scope, risks, and dependency impacts.

• Support steering committee reviews and program leadership updates.

• Ensure vendor participation in test planning and execution activities.

• Track defect resolution and readiness criteria.

• Coordinate environment, test data, and release requirements.

• Support production cutover planning and hypercare activities.

• Work across multiple stakeholders including business teams, implementation partners, system

integrators, architecture teams, infrastructure teams, and application vendors.

• Build strong relationships to facilitate issue resolution and decision-making.

• Manage communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders