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
