Technical Program Manager

Job Description

Company Description

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

About Us:

In September 2021, PowerAdvocate became part of Wood Mackenzie. The two businesses have come together, aligning our products, energy data, and technology to meet our customers’ rapidly changing and expanding needs. PowerAdvocate is moving to use the Wood Mackenzie name and brand going forward as we combine our teams and product sets.

By bringing together Wood Mackenzie’s extensive coverage of energy and natural resources with PowerAdvocate’s unique cost and supply chain intelligence, we’re able to provide a greater breadth and depth of market-leading analysis, data, and insight.

We are excited for the future direction of the company and helping to drive forward the energy transition. Visit woodmac.com to find out more.

Wood Mackenzie Supply Chain, formerly PowerAdvocate, delivers data and insights that make energy and natural resource companies more effective and resilient contributors to the global economy. We do that by providing our customers the right data in the right solution to help them reduce costs, manage risks, and accelerate the transition to renewable energy. At our center sit proprietary data sets and leading data science that we combine with our technology to solve our customers’ most complex business problems.

We are also a values-led company. We care for each other. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion. We recognize that our individual differences make us stronger. We are confident and driven, yet practical and humble. We help each other improve with direct, respectful feedback, and we encourage different viewpoints and trust in best intentions.

Job Description

As a Technical Program Manager, you play a critical role within the Technology group. Working closely under the technical program architect, you are responsible for owning technical initiatives. Your responsibilities include project management, independent technical research, creating business cases, managing and coordinating stakeholder relationships, product ownership, and owning external software contractor relationships. In this position, you will gain exposure to a wide variety of challenges. Expect to be needed to contribute to the codebase anywhere from 5-20% of your time. No two days are ever the same.

Qualifications

Must Haves:

• 2+ years of experience as a back-end or full-stack developer
• At least one year of experience owning outcomes as an engineering team lead, product owner or project manager
• Have enough breadth of technical expertise that you can form your own independent technical opinions on a variety of topics such as cloud, legacy applications, security compliance, data architecture, build tools, container orchestration, etc.
• Proficient level of knowledge with a general-purpose language (preferably Java and/or JavaScript), SQL and building applications in the AWS cloud
• Strong communicator with the ability to drive organizational alignment and buy-in
• Outspoken and vocal; comfortable speaking your mind even to more senior coworkers
• Ability to identify and engage stakeholders depending on the context, and to learn quickly and adapt based on business and technical needs to pivot user stories or architectural approach
• You thrive in environments with a lack of formal structure and are comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity. You don't need a specific plan of how to drive results. Given a vision, you can take that and run with it
• You work independently on initiating projects and research and as part of a cross-collaborative team to implement solutions
• Welcomes feedback and coaching
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, agile environment and communicating continuously
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field

Nice to Haves:

· 4+ years of experience as a back-end or full-stack developer

· 2+ years of experience building cloud-native applications

· Experience migrating applications into the cloud

· Experience architecting large applications

· Experience managing external contractors

Location
Remote, US-based

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Additional Information

PowerAdvocate leads the energy data industry by providing energy companies with clarity into their complex data. Our Energy FactBase, currently at $3+ trillion and growing, helps customers to create operational and financial excellence. We help our clients to understand how they can leverage our unique view of the marketplace to reduce costs and manage operation risk working with executives on the cutting edge in the power, oil and gas, and renewable energy sectors.

We develop applied Machine Learning solutions with the goal of scaling and automating the classification of millions of records of our clients’ supply chain data. For ten years, we have been classifying our clients’ purchasing transactions into our industry-specific categorization schema. This gives us an inordinate amount of training data – millions of rows of classified transactions representing over $3+ trillion of spend. That’s not a typo – three trillion dollars! Our efforts are focused on deploying fully-integrated Machine Learning algorithms to assist our industry experts in leveraging their knowledge at greater scale and efficiency. We have a fertile ground of training data, a can-do entrepreneurial spirit and appreciation for robust and effective analytics approaches to delivering value. To learn more about PowerAdvocate please visit us at: http://marketing.poweradvocate.com/ . We are proud to be a part of the Verisk family of companies!

At the heart of what we do is help clients manage risk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) provides data and insights to our customers in insurance, energy and the financial services markets so they can make faster and more informed decisions.

Our global team uses AI, machine learning, automation, and other emerging technologies to collect and analyze billions of records. We provide advanced decision-support to prevent credit, lending, and cyber risks. In addition, we monitor and advise companies on complex global matters such as climate change, catastrophes, and geopolitical issues.

But why we do our work is what sets us apart. It stems from a commitment to making the world better, safer and stronger.

It’s the reason Verisk is part of the UN Global Compact sustainability initiative. It’s why we made a commitment to balancing 100 percent of our carbon emissions. It’s the aim of our “returnship” program for experienced professionals rejoining the workforce after time away. And, it’s what drives our annual Innovation Day, where we identify our next first-to-market innovations to solve our customers’ problems.

At its core, Verisk uses data to minimize risk and maximize value. But far bigger, is why we do what we do.

At Verisk you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create positive and lasting impact on business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. We have received the Great Place to Work® Certification for the fifth consecutive year. We’ve been recognized by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and a Best Employer for Women, testaments to our culture of engagement and the value we place on an inclusive and diverse workforce. Verisk’s Statement on Racial Equity and Diversity supports our commitment to these values and affecting positive and lasting change in the communities where we live and work.

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