Technical Project Manager

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About the role

We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead the planning, execution, and delivery of software development and cloud-based technology projects. The ideal candidate will combine strong project management skills with a solid understanding of software architecture, application development, APIs, cloud platforms, DevOps, security, and quality assurance. This person will work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, developers, QA engineers, UI/UX designers, DevOps engineers, and external partners to deliver projects on time, within scope, and to a high standard of quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the complete project lifecycle, from requirements and planning through development, testing, deployment, and post-production support.
• Translate business objectives into clear technical deliverables, milestones, sprint plans, and actionable work items.
• Define project scope, timelines, dependencies, resource requirements, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans.
• Manage multiple projects or workstreams while maintaining visibility across priorities and deadlines.
• Identify delivery risks, technical blockers, resource constraints, and dependencies at an early stage.
• Develop mitigation and contingency plans for identified risks.
• Ensure projects are delivered within the agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
• Manage scope changes through a structured change-control process.

Agile and Sprint Management

• Lead sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release-planning sessions.
• Work with product owners and stakeholders to prioritize product backlogs.
• Ensure user stories include clear requirements, acceptance criteria, estimates, dependencies, and technical considerations.
• Track sprint capacity, velocity, burndown, carryover work, and delivery predictability.
• Remove delivery blockers and coordinate resolution across teams.
• Promote practical Agile practices without introducing unnecessary process overhead.

Technical Coordination

• Work closely with solution architects and engineering teams to understand system architecture, integrations, infrastructure, and technical dependencies.
• Facilitate technical discussions and ensure decisions, assumptions, and trade-offs are properly documented.
• Coordinate frontend, backend, mobile, database, API, DevOps, cloud, security, and QA activities.
• Understand REST APIs, databases, authentication, third-party integrations, CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, and production deployment processes.
• Ensure non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, security, availability, logging, monitoring, and maintainability are considered.
• Coordinate environment readiness across development, testing, UAT, staging, and production.
• Ensure technical documentation, deployment instructions, architecture diagrams, and operational handover materials are completed.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary communication bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Conduct requirement workshops, project reviews, demonstrations, and steering meetings.
• Provide clear and accurate updates on progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, timelines, and budget.
• Convert complex technical topics into business-friendly language.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and escalate critical issues with appropriate context and recommended actions.
• Maintain decision logs, risk registers, action trackers, and project status reports.
• Coordinate with customers, vendors, implementation partners, and other external stakeholders when required.

Quality and Release Management

• Work with QA teams to define testing strategy, test coverage, defect-management processes, and release acceptance criteria.
• Ensure functional, integration, regression, performance, security, and user-acceptance testing are planned appropriately.
• Track defects and ensure critical issues are resolved before production releases.
• Coordinate release planning, deployment readiness, rollback planning, and go-live activities.
• Facilitate go/no-go meetings and ensure required approvals are obtained.
• Coordinate post-release validation, production monitoring, incident resolution, and lessons-learned reviews.

Governance and Reporting

• Maintain project plans, sprint dashboards, RAID logs, release plans, resource plans, and project documentation.
• Track project health using measurable delivery, quality, risk, and financial indicators.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k)
• Dental insurance