Technical Delivery Excellence Project Manager III

About the role

We are seeking Senior Technical Project Manager candidates to work on a team at our client site in Newport Beach, CA. The role is onsite 4 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of initiatives designed to improve engineering execution, developer productivity, delivery velocity, and platform effectiveness across the enterprise.
• Work closely with engineering, DevOps, platform, and architecture teams to translate technical strategy into clear, executable plans, driving outcomes from planning through implementation and adoption.
• Actively engage in and facilitate technical discussions at a working level.
• Understand how engineering systems and delivery processes function together.
• Drive clarity, accountability, and execution across complex technical initiatives.
• Understand architecture and operational dependencies at a working level.
• Ask probing and technically informed questions of engineers and architects, challenge assumptions, identify delivery gaps, and translate technical complexity into clear, executive-ready updates.
• Partner directly with engineering and architecture teams to understand technical concepts, delivery models, and system dependencies.
• Validate delivery sequencing, risks, and execution approach.
• Identify gaps in planning, readiness, or implementation strategies.
• Engage in discussions around application architecture and system interactions, DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines, delivery tooling ecosystems and data flows.
• Challenge assumptions and drive alignment on technical scope vs delivery timelines, trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term sustainability.
• Translate technical concepts into actionable plans and executive-ready communications.
• Maintain a working understanding of engineering delivery processes and systems to ensure effective coordination, risk identification, and dependency management across initiatives.
• Operate within Agile/SAFe environments using tools such as Azure DevOps or equivalent.
• Structure and manage epics, features, and delivery backlogs, cross-team dependencies and sequencing.
• Own core delivery disciplines: scope, schedule, resourcing, and roadmap alignment, risk, issue, and dependency management, progress tracking and performance reporting.
• Drive accountability across teams by establishing clear ownership, pushing decisions to closure, and raising and resolving issues proactively.

Requirements

No 3rd party candidates can be considered. All qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status.

Qualifications

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Actively engage in and facilitate technical discussions at a working level.
• Understand how engineering systems and delivery processes function together.
• Drive clarity, accountability, and execution across complex technical initiatives.
• Understand architecture and operational dependencies at a working level.
• Ask probing and technically informed questions of engineers and architects, challenge assumptions, identify delivery gaps, and translate technical complexity into clear, executive-ready updates.