Technical Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery of complex technology projects.
• Define project scope, objectives, milestones, timelines, dependencies, resources, and success criteria.
• Manage project budgets, resource utilization, cost tracking, and financial forecasts.
• Coordinate multiple technical workstreams and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Partner with Architects, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Product Owners, QA, DevOps, Security, and Infrastructure teams.
• Drive Agile/Scrum delivery practices, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog discussions.
• Coordinate and facilitate PI Planning in scaled Agile/SAFe environments.
• Track project progress using Agile metrics such as velocity, burn-down/burn-up, cycle time, and throughput.
• Identify and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, resource constraints, and scope changes.
• Maintain project plans, RAID logs, dashboards, status reports, and governance documentation.
• Use JIRA and Confluence for project tracking, reporting, documentation, and collaboration.
• Manage technical dependencies across APIs, microservices, cloud infrastructure, integrations, and applications.
• Work closely with engineering and architecture teams on technical design, feasibility, dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Coordinate cloud-based projects involving AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Ensure effective communication with senior leadership and provide regular project health/status updates.
• Drive stakeholder alignment, expectation management, escalation handling, and decision-making.
• Support production readiness, deployment planning, go-live activities, and post-production stabilization.
• Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives, root-cause analysis, and Agile best practices.
• Ensure projects follow required quality, security, compliance, and governance standards.

Mandatory Skills

• Technical Project Management
• Agile / Scrum
• JIRA
• PI Planning / SAFe
• Budgeting & Financial Tracking
• Scrum Ceremonies
• Cloud Projects
• Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
• Stakeholder & Vendor Management
• SDLC and software delivery lifecycle
• Cross-functional technical team management

Technical Knowledge

• Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies.
• Good understanding of modern software architecture, APIs, microservices, and integrations.
• Experience working on cloud-based technology projects.
• Exposure to AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, testing, deployment, and production processes.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Git/GitHub/Bitbucket, and collaboration tools.
• Understanding of project planning, scheduling, resource management, risk management, and change control.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid Agile methodologies.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, PSM, SAFe Agilist, or similar certification.
• Experience managing cloud migration, digital transformation, platform modernization, or enterprise technology projects.
• Exposure to financial services, banking, investments, insurance, or other regulated industries.
• Experience working with product-led organizations and engineering teams.
• Technical/engineering background is an added advantage.