Technical Project Manager / IT Project Manager_ Exp: 5+ To 8 Years

Role & responsibilities

Project Management

• 48 years of experience in Project Management / Technical Project Management.
• Proven experience delivering technology projects on time and within scope.
• Strong experience in project planning, execution, governance, dependency management and delivery tracking.
• Strong risk, issue and change management capabilities.
• Experience working across multiple technical teams and parallel workstreams.

Cloud & Application Modernisation

• Hands-on project delivery experience in Cloud Migration, Application Modernisation or Platform Modernisation initiatives.
• Good understanding of modernising on-premises / VM-based applications.
• Experience with application migration, containerisation and modern deployment architectures.
• Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift or similar container platforms.
• Good understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP is preferred.

DevOps

• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience coordinating DevOps pipeline modernisation or migration.
• Understanding of tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Terraform or equivalent is preferred.
• Ability to work effectively with DevOps and Platform Engineering teams.

Technical Background

• Working knowledge of Java or Python.
• Understanding of application architecture, APIs, databases and deployment processes.
• Good understanding of containerisation and cloud-native technologies.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams and understand technical dependencies and constraints.

Stakeholder Management

• Strong experience managing senior leadership and client stakeholders.
• Ability to drive decisions asynchronously and maintain momentum across distributed teams.
• Comfortable following up on pending actions and non-responses.
• Ability to escalate issues appropriately without negatively impacting stakeholder relationships.
• Strong communication, negotiation and collaboration skills.

Documentation & Communication

The candidate should be able to produce clear, concise and structured documentation, including:

• Project status reports
• Executive dashboards
• RAID logs
• Blocker and dependency trackers
• Action/decision logs
• ADR summaries
• Project plans and milestone trackers
• Acceptance packs
• Steering committee updates

Documentation should be senior-stakeholder friendly, concise and easy to understand within a few minutes.

Key Competencies

• Project Planning & Delivery
• Cloud Migration & Application Modernisation
• Containerisation
• DevOps & CI/CD
• Stakeholder Management
• Risk & Issue Management
• Change & Scope Management
• Senior Leadership Communication
• Cross-functional Team Management
• Governance & Reporting
• Agile Delivery
• Java / Python Technical Understanding