Technical Lead, IT​/Tech, IT Project Manager

Location(s):
Franklin, TN

Job Schedule:

Full-time
Degree Level: University Degree
Sponsorship:
No

Nissan is currently seeking a dynamic individual to fill an opening for IS Technical Lead at our Franklin, TN Americas' Headquarters.

Serves as a hands‑on technical leader for one or more products within a value stream. This position provides architectural guidance, ensures adherence to engineering standards, and mentors developers to build technical capability. It partners with Product Managers to align technical priorities with business objectives and manages outsourced development teams to ensure quality and timely delivery of solutions.

• Own technical design and implementation for assigned products.
• Ensure code quality, security, and performance through reviews and automation.
• Collaborate with Product Managers on backlog refinement and technical debt prioritization.
• Drive adoption of CI/CD, cloud‑native patterns, and Dev Ops practices.

• Strategic Alignment:
  Partner closely with business and technology leaders to understand strategic objectives and align project portfolios, initiatives, and budgets with both regional and global priorities.
• Roadmap & Architecture Planning:
  Develop and maintain comprehensive roadmaps that sequence initiatives, support cloud migration, ensure hardware/software currency, and incorporate regulatory, security, and enterprise architecture standards.
• Business Value & Innovation:
  Proactively identify opportunities for automation, digitalization, and process optimization that enhance customer experience, solve business challenges, and deliver measurable value across the organization.
• Operational Excellence & Project Intake:
  Oversee the project intake and prioritization process, ensuring resources are allocated to the highest‑impact initiatives and maintaining transparent communication of portfolio status to leadership and stakeholders.
• Vendor & Service Management:
  Lead technology vendor relationships by defining SLAs, managing performance, ensuring cost‑effective service delivery, and maintaining consistent administration of services across affiliates.
• Program, Product & Financial Management:
  Guide project managers, ensure adherence to cybersecurity and technology standards, oversee business cases, forecasting, and funding approvals, and contribute to annual budget planning with a focus on cost optimization.
• People Leadership & Culture:
  Provide coaching, performance management, training, and career development for internal and external teams; promote diversity and inclusion; balance workloads effectively; and drive continuous improvement and business process reengineering efforts.

Knowledge of vendor management, contract management, customer relationship management; project management skills; strong working knowledge of automotive business systems; oral and written communications skills; interpersonal skills; and conflict resolution skills.

Five or more years of software engineering experience with 2+ years in technical leadership.

Five or more years as an intermediate level manager or supervisor, providing leadership, coaching, guidance, and training and contributing to staff development. Supervised subordinates or contractors whose roles were diverse in roles and objectives (e.g., Project Managers, Solution Architects, Business Analysts, etc.).

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline. Advanced degree preferred. Technology, Management or Program/project management certifications a plus. Cloud Practitioner certification is preferred.

Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, forecasting, portfolio management and/or collaboration tools.

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