Back-End Technical Project Manager

HackerTrail Singapore, Malaysia

About the role

This role reports into the Information Systems - Delivery & Business Enablement (DBE) TPM Lead and supports our Digital Experience Platform (DXP) team. As a Back-End Technical Project Manager, you’ll orchestrate agile delivery across complex, service-oriented architectures that support both consumer and enterprise platforms.

You will be the connective tissue between engineering, product, DevOps, and QA — ensuring that delivery is predictable, resilient, secure, and continuously improving across back-end systems such as APIs, integration services, and core platform service

Delivery & Agile Management

• Drive agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives) and maintain team rhythm and cadence.
• Manage backlog hygiene, ensuring stories are well-defined, estimated, and prioritized.
• Plan and execute phased delivery strategies, ensuring release readiness through Blue/Green deployments, canary releases, and feature flagging.
• Track delivery health through velocity, throughput, and scope stability metrics.
• Identify and resolve blockers, risks, and cross-domain dependencies early.
• Maintain clear delivery dashboards and status reporting to senior stakeholders.

Technical Coordination & Planning

• Partner with Domain Owners and Tech Leads to align on architecture, delivery scope, and capacity planning.
• Coordinate with DevOps and QA/QE teams to ensure readiness for integration, testing, and release.
• Support implementation of continuous delivery and observability practices across teams.
• Define, Monitor and report on key delivery KPIs, including deployment frequency, Mean Time To Recovery, defect Leakage rate, change failure rate ensuring all releases meet defined Service Level Objectives and performance baselines.
• Participate in sprint demos and ensure acceptance criteria are met for each increment.

Stakeholder & Cross-Domain Collaboration

• Work with Journey Solution Designers (SDs) and Release Program Managers (RPMs) to align sprint deliverables to journey-level milestones.
• Collaborate with Journey Owners (JOs) and business stakeholders to clarify priorities and expected outcomes.
• Communicate risks, decisions, and delivery trade-offs clearly across key stakeholders.

Continuous Improvement & Governance

• Drive adoption of agile and DevOps best practices across DXP teams.
• Analyze delivery metrics to identify improvement opportunities in velocity, predictability, and quality.
• Support incident RCA reviews and ensure learnings are converted into actionable backlog improvements.
• Contribute to standardized delivery governance, templates, and documentation across domains.

What you’ll bring

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Agile, PMP, or DevOps certifications (e.g., CSM, SAFe, PMI-ACP) preferred.

Experience

• 8+ years of experience in software delivery or digital product management, with at least 3 years in a technical project management, delivery lead or scrum master capacity.
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native architecture (e.g., Kubernetes, EKS), and backend service delivery
• Strong understanding of API management, event-driven architecture, observability tooling and modern deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, Feature Flags).
• Strong familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitLab, Jenkins, Monday.com, Splunk.
• Experience in telecommunications, digital platform delivery, or large-scale integration programs is an advantage.

Skills

• Deep understanding of agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery practices.
• Ability to translate technical complexity into clear, actionable plans.
• Technical fluency with backend engineering patterns and delivery pipelines
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Analytical and detail-oriented mindset with a bias for execution.
• Highly organized, proactive, and resilient in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Passion for continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Benefits and perks

Skills

Required

API ManagementCI/CDGitlabConfluenceEvent-driven architectureDevOpsAgileKubernetesJIRA

Nice to have

PmpMonday.comMicroservicesFacilitationCloud-Native ArchitectureSAFeSplunkStakeholder managementRisk ManagementJenkinsObservabilityCommunicationTelecommunications

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