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