Technical Project Manager Vendor Integration Lead

Technical Project Manager Vendor Integration Lead
Minneapolis, MN

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