Technical Project Manager
Role Overview
We are seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead complex, large-scale cloud migration, cloud deployment, application development and modernization programs in regulated-industry environments.
The role combines disciplined project and program management with strong technical understanding of cloud platforms, software delivery, DevSecOps, security, governance and operational readiness.
The successful candidate will manage initiatives from discovery and planning through solution design, application development, migration, testing, production deployment, cutover, stabilization and operational handover. The role coordinates multidisciplinary teams and ensures that solutions are delivered securely, compliantly and in alignment with business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
1. Project and Program Delivery
- Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale cloud migration, application development, cloud deployment and modernization programs.
- Develop and maintain integrated plans covering scope, schedule, budget, resources, milestones, deliverables, assumptions, dependencies, risks and issues.
- Manage multiple workstreams across applications, infrastructure, architecture, data, integration, security, networking, testing, operations and change management.
- Establish governance forums, reporting cadence, decision processes, quality gates and escalation paths.
- Coordinate release planning, cutover, rollback, hypercare, knowledge transfer and transition to support.
2. Application Development Management
- Manage the complete application delivery lifecycle from requirements, estimation and solution design through build, integration, testing, release and production support.
- Coordinate product owners, business analysts, architects, developers, testers, UX teams, security specialists and operations teams.
- Manage application backlogs, sprint or release plans, acceptance criteria, technical dependencies and delivery commitments.
- Oversee system integration, API development, data migration, environment readiness and non-functional requirements.
- Ensure appropriate software engineering practices, code quality controls, peer reviews, test automation, defect management and release governance are applied.
- Support delivery using Agile, Scrum, Waterfall or hybrid methodologies, selecting controls appropriate to project and regulatory requirements.
3. Cloud Migration and Modernization
- Manage assessment, planning, readiness, migration, validation and optimization of enterprise workloads.
- Coordinate migration strategies including rehost, replatform, refactor, rebuild, replace and retire.
- Lead migration-wave planning, workload sequencing, dependency mapping, production cutover and business validation.
- Coordinate modernization involving cloud-native services, containers, microservices, managed databases, APIs and serverless platforms.
- Ensure migration designs address availability, disaster recovery, performance, security, compliance and business continuity.
4. DevSecOps and Deployment Management
- Lead adoption and governance of DevSecOps practices across application and cloud delivery.
- Coordinate CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, vulnerability scanning and policy validation.
- Ensure security controls are integrated across planning, coding, build, testing, release, deployment and operations.
- Manage environment promotion, deployment approvals, segregation of duties, secrets management, artifact controls and rollback procedures.
- Work with engineering and security teams to track vulnerabilities, remediation actions and approved exceptions.
5. Regulated-Industry Delivery and Compliance
- Deliver technology initiatives in regulated sectors such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, government or other highly controlled environments.
- Ensure project activities comply with applicable organizational policies, regulatory obligations, security standards, data-protection requirements and audit expectations.
- Maintain traceability across requirements, design decisions, development, testing evidence, approvals and production releases.
- Coordinate architecture reviews, security assessments, privacy reviews, risk acceptance and go-live approvals.
- Ensure appropriate controls for data residency, access management, encryption, logging, monitoring, retention, resilience and third-party risk.
- Prepare project evidence and documentation to support governance reviews, internal audits and regulatory examinations.
6. Stakeholder, Vendor and Financial Management
- Act as the primary coordination point across business stakeholders, technology teams, leadership, vendors and implementation partners.
- Translate business objectives into clear technical delivery outcomes and communicate technical matters to non-technical audiences.
- Manage project budgets, forecasts, resource plans, vendor deliverables and commercial dependencies.
- Maintain RAID logs, decision logs, change requests, action trackers and dependency registers.
- Provide concise executive reporting on delivery status, financial position, risks, decisions and required interventions
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- Minimum 7 years of experience in technical project management, application delivery, cloud transformation, infrastructure delivery or a related technology role.
- Proven experience managing at least one large-scale cloud migration, application development or modernization program.
- Experience delivering projects within a regulated industry and working with security, compliance, risk and audit stakeholders.
- Practical understanding of Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform or an equivalent enterprise cloud platform.
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, application architecture, systems integration, APIs, databases and non-functional requirements.
- Working knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, security scanning and release management.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
- Experience managing production releases, migration cutovers, rollback planning, hypercare and transition to operations.
- Strong capabilities in governance, budgeting, risk management, dependency management, vendor management and executive reporting.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Preferred Technical Knowledge
- Azure landing zones and cloud foundation frameworks
- Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins or equivalent tools
- Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, CloudFormation or equivalent Infrastructure-as-Code tools
- Kubernetes, containers, serverless platforms and managed cloud services
- Cloud networking, hybrid connectivity, identity, RBAC, security and observability
- Application architecture, microservices, APIs, integration platforms and database modernization
- High availability, backup, disaster recovery, resilience and business continuity
- FinOps, cloud cost optimization and consumption governance
Preferred Certifications
- PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster or SAFe certification
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
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