Technical Project Manager

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead delivery of complex cloud migration and implementation engagements. This role combines hands-on Agile/Scrum delivery leadership with technical understanding of cloud infrastructure, along with the client-facing engagement management skills to own scope, budget, timeline, and risk throughout the customer relationship. The role acts as the critical link between engineering teams, solution architects, and business stakeholders.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Managing complex cloud migration and implementation projects.
• Leveraging comprehensive knowledge of cloud services to be able to hold conversations with solution architects and own strategic planning.
• Bridging business requirements with technical solutions, facilitating engineering discussions and ensuring alignment with customer business outcomes.
• Liaising with solution architects to ensure distilling of customer needs into clear technical requirements and mapping them to business outcomes.
• Defining documentation standards.

Team Coordination

• Leading daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives using Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Coordinating cross-functional engineering teams to maintain sprint velocity and delivery cadence across concurrent migration workstreams.

Risk & Dependency Management

• Tracking project performance, managing resource allocation, and proactively mitigating risks related to microservices dependencies, system performance, and scope creep.
• Maintaining risk and dependency registers, escalating blockers, and driving mitigation plans to closure.

Communication

• Acting as the primary point of contact between engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders, translating deeply technical updates into clear business progress.
• Producing regular status reports, steering committee updates, and executive-level summaries of program health.
• Engaging directly and credibly with solution architects on migration design decisions, acting as a quality gate for migration design completeness.

Client & Engagement Management

• Owning the overall scope, budget, and timeline of the engagement, applying business and financial acumen to manage change requests and protect margin.
• Serving as a strategic partner to the client, building trust with executive and technical stakeholders and managing expectations throughout the engagement lifecycle.
• Identifying IT compliance, security, and risk management requirements early in the engagement and ensuring the delivery plan accounts for them.
• Applying agile/iterative delivery experience to keep engagements grounded in realistic, defensible plans.

Accountability & Delivery Follow-Through

• Proactively chasing task owners on outstanding action items, overdue tickets, and at-risk deliverables, escalating firmly and promptly when commitments slip.
• Owning a ticket system as the system of record for sprint and program work: creating and grooming well-formed tickets, keeping boards current, and using it to drive (not just report) delivery.
• Driving documentation quality and completeness on a wiki, holding engineering and architecture teams accountable for keeping runbooks, design docs, and decision records current.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in cloud computing, with direct exposure to large-scale AWS migration or implementation environments.
• Experience in project management of technical programs, supporting Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years Project Management hands-on experience in managing and delivering enterprise-level IT projects, engaging directly with client executives and technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience running Agile/Scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives).
• Working technical fluency: able to converse knowledgeably about core AWS services (e.g. EC2, VPC, S3, IAM), with a general working understanding of infrastructure-as-code concepts (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation). Deep hands-on IaC authoring is not required, but candidates who describe themselves as "not technical" will not be considered.
• Daily hands-on use of a ticket system for backlog, sprint, and dependency management, and of a wiki for documentation.
• Able to communicate effectively, in both technical and business settings, with internal teams and client stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS experience preferred, ideally including large-scale cloud migration or operations engagements.
• At least one active project management certification (e.g., PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, Certified ScrumMaster).
• General subject-matter overview of cloud infrastructure, enough to follow architecture and engineering conversations.
• Proven ability to establish technical credibility with engineering teams and senior technical decision-makers, including solution architects, at a peer level.
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, privacy, data residency) in a client-delivery context.
• Proven track record of increasing project scope and complexity, with deep knowledge of Agile and Scaled program management best practices and how to pragmatically apply them across large, complex projects.
• A track record of holding distributed teams accountable to deadlines without needing constant management escalation.