Senior Technical Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Argentina.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary authority and accountable leader for project execution, ensuring that timelines, quality standards, and customer expectations are successfully met.

• Create and manage the project schedule using Microsoft Project.

• Take ownership of the backlog, address client inquiries, translate requirements into acceptance criteria, refine user stories, and facilitate requirement discussions.

• Collaborate with the Architect to ensure the technical solution aligns with client needs.

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and internal meetings in the role of Scrum Master.

• Define team responsibilities and resolve any questions that arise.

• Act as the main escalation contact, addressing blockers, and identifying, logging, and mitigating risks with appropriate contingency plans.

• Document business domain knowledge, definitions, and technical solutions in Confluence.

• Evaluate and manage change requests and additional scope.

• Provide status updates, performance metrics, and risk assessments to the client, Delivery leadership, and executives, including C-level stakeholders.

• Collaborate with the Delivery Director regarding hiring and team expansion requirements.

• Approve time-off requests and weekly timesheets.

• Coordinate with HR and Office Administration on sick leave and study day certifications.

• Oversee the onboarding and offboarding processes for team members.

• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for the client's engineering team, delivering progress updates and demonstrations.

• Become the leading expert on the client's business logic, product, and objectives, integrating this knowledge into project strategy.

• Align business and technical requirements with client technical counterparts.

• Identify growth opportunities and support account expansion and upselling initiatives.

• Act as the technical liaison between pre-sales and engineering during the transition from specifications to implementation.

• Assist in defining project scope.

• Inspire and motivate the team, cultivating a positive, high-performance culture.

• Conduct monthly one-on-one meetings with engineers, providing mentorship and feedback.

• Execute annual performance evaluations.

• Develop career advancement plans in collaboration with HR and practice leads.

• Ensure technical quality alongside the Architect, maintaining user stories readiness, timely pull requests, and scheduled releases.

• Manage access and configurations for vendor APIs, repositories, and deployment pipelines.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a project manager, planning projects and delivering them on time while ensuring customer satisfaction.

• Proficient in a hybrid Waterfall-Agile methodology and experienced in leading Scrum events.

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Project.

• Established technical expertise in cloud architectures, estimation, and go-live activities.

• A development background is highly advantageous.

• Experience in ensuring technical quality, user stories readiness, timely pull requests, and adherence to release schedules.

• Familiarity with managing access and setup, including vendor APIs, repositories, and deployment pipelines.

• Knowledge of fintech is preferred; banking experience is a significant advantage.

• Experience in managing revenue, margins, and expenses is desirable.

• Strong sense of ownership, proactivity, and urgency; capable of working independently and making informed decisions.

• Flexible mindset with the ability to adapt to changing priorities and manage extended hours when necessary.

• Exceptional communication skills and commitment to transparency.

• Advanced proficiency in English, both written and spoken.

• Confident presentation skills for interactions with customers and executives.

• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution capabilities.

• Client-focused with a business vision and the ability to identify upselling and cross-selling opportunities.

• Highly organized and skilled in effective delegation.

• Natural leader and motivator within a team setting.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time position.

• Potential opportunities to assist in account expansion and upselling.

• Regular mentorship and feedback through monthly one-on-one sessions.

• Career development plans developed in conjunction with HR and practice leads.