Technical Project Manager

Job Description – Technical Project Manager

Position: Technical Project Manager (TPM)

Experience: 10–15 Years

Location: Hyderabad – Work from Office all days

Employment Type: Full-Time

Role Summary

We are looking for a highly motivated and execution-focused Technical Project Manager who can lead large-scale technology programs and drive end-to-end delivery excellence. The ideal candidate should be a go-getter with strong ownership mindset, capable of managing complex technical engagements, leading cross-functional teams, and building trusted customer relationships.

The candidate should have successfully managed projects or programs with a cumulative value of USD 500K+, while ensuring timely delivery, budget adherence, quality governance, and stakeholder satisfaction.

This role requires a blend of technical understanding, program management expertise, customer engagement, Agile delivery experience, and process orientation.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Delivery Leadership

• Own complete project lifecycle including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, governance, and closure.
• Drive delivery of multiple technical workstreams involving application development, cloud, integration, data, infrastructure, and DevOps initiatives.
• Define project roadmaps, release plans, milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Monitor delivery health through metrics such as sprint velocity, estimation accuracy, milestone adherence, and resource utilization.
• Ensure adherence to engineering best practices, architecture guidelines, and quality standards.

Program & Financial Management

• Manage technical programs with annual portfolio value of USD 500K or higher.
• Own project financials including budgeting, forecasting, revenue tracking, and resource utilization.
• Prepare project plans, effort estimates, and staffing strategies.
• Ensure projects are delivered within approved scope, budget, and timelines.

Customer & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary interface between customers, engineering teams, vendors, and leadership stakeholders.
• Conduct governance meetings, steering committee reviews, sprint demonstrations, and executive status reporting.
• Build strong customer relationships and maintain high customer satisfaction scores.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, and dependencies while minimizing escalations.

Agile Delivery & Process Governance

• Champion Agile methodologies and ensure disciplined implementation of Scrum practices.
• Drive process compliance and governance through effective usage of delivery frameworks.
• Establish project dashboards, KPIs, reporting cadence, and operational reviews.
• Continuously improve project processes, delivery efficiency, and documentation standards.

Technical Leadership

• Possess sufficient technical depth to challenge solutions, review architecture decisions, and guide engineering teams.
• Collaborate with architects and technical leads in defining implementation approaches and resolving technical blockers.
• Drive adoption of DevOps practices, CI/CD, cloud-native approaches, and automation initiatives.
• Enable technical teams to improve engineering productivity and delivery quality.

Tools & Delivery Excellence

• Hands-on experience in:
• JIRA (mandatory)
• Confluence (mandatory)
• Microsoft Project / Smartsheet
• Agile reporting and dashboard tools
• AI-enabled productivity tools such as Copilot, Rovo, Planner, ChatGPT, etc.
• Ensure proper backlog management, sprint planning, estimation, documentation, and reporting through JIRA and Confluence.
• Establish project documentation standards and governance mechanisms.

Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead cross-functional teams comprising developers, architects, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, business analysts, and external partners.
• Mentor project teams on Agile practices, technical delivery excellence, and stakeholder management.
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning.

Required Skills & Experience

Experience

• 10–15 years of IT industry experience with at least 5 years in Technical Project Management.
• Proven experience managing medium to large-scale digital transformation projects.
• Demonstrated experience handling projects or programs worth USD 500K+.
• Experience managing distributed teams and multiple concurrent projects.

Technical Competencies

• Strong understanding of:
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• DevOps and CI/CD practices
• Microservices and API-based architectures
• Application modernization and enterprise integration

Project Management Competencies

• Project planning and estimation
• Risk, issue, and dependency management
• Budget and resource management
• Customer governance and executive communication
• Vendor management and contract oversight
• Metrics-driven delivery management

Behavioral Competencies

• Strong ownership mindset and execution focus.
• Go-getter attitude with ability to work independently.
• Excellent customer-facing and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing abilities.
• Highly process-oriented with attention to governance and documentation.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and work in fast-paced environments.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) we look for

• Project Schedule Adherence
• Milestone Completion
• Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)
• Escalation Rate
• Project profitability
• Resource Utilization
• Documentation Quality Score
• Continuous Process Improvement Initiatives
• Effective adoption of AI tools for delivery excellence

Preferred Certifications

• PMP / PRINCE2
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) / SAFe Agilist
• Azure / AWS Certifications
• ITIL Foundation
• Agile Project Management Certifications

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