Technical Project Manager

Highlight of the engagement opportunity

• Nature of role: Full time
• Number of years of experience expected: Typically, 5–8 years in software development and delivery, with demonstrated project or team leadership
• Hands-on technical contribution: Approximately 15–25%, adjusted to delivery workload

About the role

We are looking for a technically strong Delivery Manager to coordinate execution across multiple software projects and support five–six hands-on stream leads.

Our engineering team includes approximately 22 full-time employees and eight interns. You will work with the Business Unit Leader & Chief Architect to translate priorities into achievable plans, identify problems early and help stream leads improve prioritisation, delegation and communication.

This role combines practical delivery ownership, technical understanding and team development. You should be comfortable investigating implementation details and contributing code or automation while keeping delivery commitments realistic.

Key responsibility areas:

Delivery planning and prioritisation

• Work with stream leads to break requirements into tasks, estimates, milestones and delivery plans.
• Plan against actual capacity, including development, support, mentoring and leave.
• Maintain clear priorities for each stream and limit excessive parallel work.
• Coordinate dependencies, shared resources and handovers across projects.
• Assess new requests and make their impact on existing commitments explicit.
• Identify delays and risks early; bring options and recommendations to resolve them.

Execution and communication

• Maintain an accurate view of project progress, owners, blockers and expected completion dates.
• Run focused planning sessions, delivery reviews and retrospectives.
• Provide concise stakeholder updates covering progress, risks, changes and decisions needed.
• Follow through on agreed actions and escalate unresolved issues promptly.
• Help leads resolve routine delivery problems without requiring repeated intervention from the BU Leader.

Lead development and team support

• Coach stream leads in work breakdown, prioritisation, delegation and early escalation.
• Help balance workloads and recognise signs of overload.
• Support onboarding, mentoring arrangements and development goals for engineers and interns.
• Give timely feedback and provide evidence for performance reviews.
• Escalate persistent performance concerns and sensitive people issues to the BU Leader.

Technical contribution

• Understand proposed implementations well enough to assess feasibility, dependencies and delivery risks.
• Contribute contained code changes, debugging, scripts or internal tools.
• Help improve development workflows, testing and engineering practices.
• Coordinate with the Build & Release Engineer on release scope and readiness.

Required skills and experience

• Previous software-development experience and the ability to read and discuss application code.
• Demonstrated ownership of delivery across multiple projects or workstreams.
• Practical experience with estimates, capacity planning, dependencies and changing priorities.
• Experience guiding engineers or coordinating a development team.
• Ability to challenge unrealistic commitments constructively.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Working knowledge of Git, CI/CD and a project-tracking tool or Azure DevOps.

Preferred experience

• Developing less-experienced engineers or project leads.
• Working in a small or growing engineering organisation.
• Coordinating integrations, APIs, databases and releases.
• Automating repetitive reporting or development tasks.

Ownership and decision-making

You will own delivery coordination and propose changes to scope, sequencing and capacity. Stream leads retain technical execution ownership.

The BU Leader & Chief Architect retains business priorities, technical strategy, final performance ratings, promotions and sensitive people decisions. People-management authority can expand as you demonstrate readiness.

Success in the first 90 days

• Establish a reliable delivery view across active streams.
• Make priorities, capacity constraints and dependencies visible.
• Introduce consistent planning and useful stakeholder updates.
• Help leads raise risks earlier and manage fewer conflicting commitments.
• Reduce routine delivery interventions from the BU Leader.

Other important information:

• Work permit requirements: Either Indian Citizen or having valid works in India
• Period of engagement: Full time
• Probation period: 6 months
• Compensation: Compensation varies depending on the skill, fitment and role played by the person. Compensation discussions will take place post the selection process.
• Performance incentives: Typically, all roles at Acies have a performance incentive. Specific aspects will be discussed during the compensation discussion
• Leave: 19 working days a year. Additional leaves for national holidays, sick leaves, maternity and paternity, bereavement and studies vary based on the city and country of engagement.
• Other benefits: Other employment benefits including medical insurance will be informed during the compensation discussion.
• Career growth for full-time roles: Acies believes in a transparent and data-based performance evaluation system. You are encouraged to clarify any questions you have with respect to career growth with Acies personnel you interact with during the selection process.
• Career opportunities for part-time roles: Conversion of part-time roles to full-time roles depends on both performance of the individual and business needs. You are encouraged to ask about the prospects as you interact with Acies personnel during the selection process.
• Global mobility: Acies encourages mobility across our offices. Such mobility is, however, subject to business needs and regulations governing immigration and employment in various countries.

Selection process:

We seek to be transparent during the selection process. While the actual process may vary from the process indicated below, the key steps involved are as follows:

• Personal interviews: There are expected to be at least 2 -3 rounds of interviews. The number of interview rounds may increase depending on the criticality and seniority of the role involved.
• Final discussion on career and compensation: Post final selection, a separate discussion will be set up to discuss compensation and career growth. You are encouraged to seek any clarifications you have during this discussion.

Preparation required:

It is recommended that you prepare on the following aspects before the selection process:

• Understanding of the key functions and processes for the financial services industry.
• Awareness of globally accepted Internal Audit standards such as the IIA standards on IA & Controls
• Good understanding of the local Regulatory requirements for FIs across banking, insurance and NBFCs issued by the respective Regulators such as RBI, IRDA, & SEBI on Risk based Internal Audits
• Additional understanding of the Regulatory requirements for Middle East and APAC geographies will be an added advantage.
• Exposure to Audit tools such as MetricStream, SAP Audit, etc. will be beneficial

For any additional queries you may have, you can send a LinkedIn InMail to us, connect with us at https://www.acies.consulting/careers-apply.html or e-mail us at [email protected].

How to reach us:

Should you wish to apply for this job, please reach out to us directly through LinkedIn or apply on our website career page - https://www.acies.consulting/careers-apply.html