Engineering Manager - Project Management
First seen by Alion on Aug 31, 2026.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Project Planning & Coordination:
- Work closely with Product Managers to understand feature requirements, business priorities, and release plans.
- Collaborate with Engineering Managers to understand resource availability and plan feature execution.
- Break down product features into executable work items and coordinate effort estimation.
- Identify project dependencies and ensure appropriate sequencing of work across teams.
Agile Project Execution:
- Create and maintain Epics, Stories, Tasks, and Sub-tasks in Jira.
- Ensure Jira is updated with accurate ownership, estimates, priorities, dependencies, and sprint assignments.
- Coordinate sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives as required.
- Monitor sprint progress and ensure deliverables remain aligned with project milestones.
Delivery Tracking & Risk Management:
- Track day-to-day project execution across multiple engineering teams.
- Identify risks, blockers, and execution challenges early and proactively drive their resolution.
- Escalate critical issues with clear impact analysis and recommended mitigation plans.
- Coordinate with Product, Engineering, QA, Platform, and DevOps teams to remove execution bottlenecks.
- Monitor release readiness and ensure all milestones are achieved before product releases.
Reporting & Stakeholder Communication:
- Prepare and publish project dashboards and status reports for Engineering Leadership.
- Provide regular visibility into project health, schedule adherence, risks, dependencies, and release readiness.
- Track action items from meetings and ensure timely closure.
- Facilitate effective communication across Product, Engineering, QA, and Leadership teams.
Process Excellence:
- Ensure engineering teams consistently follow Agile development processes.
- Track delivery metrics such as sprint predictability, backlog health, feature completion, and release progress.
- Identify recurring execution bottlenecks and recommend process improvements to improve engineering efficiency.
What You Bring:
Mandatory Skills:
- 4 to 6 years of experience in Project Management or Engineering Project Management.
- Experience managing Agile software development projects.
- Experience working with cross-functional product engineering teams.
Technical & Functional Skills:
- Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Good understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies.
- Strong hands-on experience with Jira, including backlog management, sprint planning, dashboards, filters, workflows, and reporting.
- Ability to create Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and manage project schedules.
- Strong understanding of software development concepts, APIs, databases, backend/frontend architecture, and cloud technologies.
- Programming awareness sufficient to understand technical discussions and engineering dependencies.
- Experience in release planning and execution tracking.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment.
Good To Have:
- Experience working in SaaS or Enterprise Product companies.
- Familiarity with observability, cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, or microservices.
- Experience using Confluence for project documentation.
- Basic understanding of SQL and REST APIs.
- Scrum Master or Agile certification.
Professional Attributes:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong planning, coordination, and organizational abilities.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Proactive mindset with the ability to identify risks and drive timely resolution.
- High attention to detail and strong execution focus.
- Ability to influence teams without direct authority.
- Self-driven, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced product environment.
- Strong ownership mindset with a passion for delivering high-quality software on time.
Skills
Engineering Management, Project Management, Project Methodologies, Agile, IT Project Delivery, SDLC, Scrum, Jira, Workflows