Technical Project Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Provide strong technical and project leadership to cross-functional engineering, QA, DevOps, and product teams.
• Own the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of multiple technical projects across cloud, APIs, web applications, automation, and DevOps.
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams, ensuring clear ownership, accountability, priorities, and timely execution of deliverables.
• Define project scope, objectives, milestones, timelines, dependencies, deliverables, and resource requirements.
• Drive Agile/Scrum processes including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.
• Set clear project priorities and ensure teams remain aligned with business objectives and technical goals.
• Monitor team performance, project progress, schedules, risks, issues, dependencies, and resource utilization, and take proactive corrective actions.
• Mentor and guide team members on project execution, delivery practices, problem-solving, and continuous improvement.
• Facilitate effective communication between Engineering, QA, DevOps, Product, Business, Operations, and senior leadership.
• Work closely with technical teams on AWS and Azure cloud-based applications, deployments, migrations, infrastructure, scalability, and environment readiness.
• Manage projects involving REST APIs, microservices, API gateways, third-party integrations, and system integrations.
• Coordinate API development, testing, documentation, authentication, integration testing, and release timelines.
• Work with DevOps teams to manage CI/CD pipelines, build processes, automated deployments, environment management, releases, and rollback activities.
• Provide technical direction and facilitate decision-making when project teams encounter technical challenges, dependencies, or delivery blockers.
• Coordinate application development and release activities involving React-based web applications and backend services.
• Drive test automation initiatives using Playwright or equivalent automation frameworks, including regression, smoke, and end-to-end testing.
• Work with engineering and QA teams to identify opportunities for automation and improve software delivery quality.
• Apply working knowledge of Python to understand automation scripts, APIs, technical implementations, and engineering workflows.
• Monitor release readiness, production deployment risks, defects, technical dependencies, and post-release issues.
• Create and maintain project plans, RAID logs, sprint plans, release plans, dashboards, and project status reports.
• Define, monitor, and report project and engineering KPIs such as sprint velocity, release frequency, deployment frequency, lead time, defect density, automation coverage, and schedule variance.
• Provide regular project health updates, risk analysis, KPI reports, and recommendations to senior management and stakeholders.
• Identify technical, operational, resource, and delivery risks and ensure timely mitigation.
• Resolve conflicts, remove delivery blockers, and ensure effective collaboration across teams.
• Take ownership of project outcomes and ensure commitments are delivered within agreed scope, timeline, quality, and resource constraints.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives across project delivery, engineering processes, automation, release management, and team productivity.
• Act as a key leadership interface between technical teams, business stakeholders, senior management, and external partners.
• Drive a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, quality, and continuous improvement across project teams.