Title : Project Manager (Retail)
Location : Duluth GA
Lead enterprise-level programs in retail, ecommerce, merchandising, digital, and catalog domains. Drive initiatives focused on Product Experience Management (PXM) and product-catalog modernization. Convert business requirements into roadmaps, MVP scopes, release plans, backlogs, milestones, dependency matrices, RAID logs, and executive status reports. Govern hands-on delivery across product owners, business SMEs, architects, UX, engineering, quality engineering, data, integration, SRE, security, vendor teams, and onshore/offshore resources.
Oversee modernization efforts involving cloud-native applications, APIs, event-driven architectures, batch-to-real-time transformations, data migrations, and operational dashboards. Apply strong Agile practices using Scrum/SAFe, Jira, and Confluence for release planning, sprint ceremonies, dependency management, and stakeholder demos.
Manage high ambiguity by running workshops, documenting assumptions, and aligning leadership on build-vs-buy decisions, cost, scope, risk, and product adoption. Maintain fluency in Java/Spring Boot, microservices, Google Cloud Platform, React UI modernization, Kafka/PubSub, APIs, data platforms, logging/monitoring, and DevSecOps concepts to engage technical stakeholders.
Deliver concise executive communications, leadership updates, action plans, and proposal inputs. Provide robust risk, issue, dependency, scope, and change-control management while leading geographically distributed teams and balancing tactical delivery with strategic roadmap development.