Technical Project Manager

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the comprehensive delivery of customer projects, ensuring that the defined scope, timelines, budgets, and quality targets are met.

• Develop and maintain project plans, RAID logs, resource needs, and delivery milestones.

• Implement project management methodologies and governance frameworks to uphold control, accountability, and transparency throughout the project lifecycle.

• Serve as the main liaison for customer Programme and Project Managers throughout the project execution.

• Facilitate customer meetings, technical workshops, project evaluations, and status presentations.

• Manage software development, system integration, and technical deployment tasks.

• Gather, document, and oversee business and technical requirements throughout the project lifecycle.

• Lead change management and control processes to ensure all modifications to scope are evaluated and properly governed.

• Supervise release planning, readiness, deployment tasks, and post-release support.

• Provide technical leadership and coordination during troubleshooting, defect resolution, root cause analysis, and issue management.

• Establish and manage testing strategies, test plans, acceptance criteria, and test execution activities.

• Assist with pre-sales efforts, including solution scoping, effort estimation, project planning assumptions, and responses to customer RFIs/RFPs.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in managing complex, customer-focused technical projects in a software, technology, or systems integration context.

• Strong grasp of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), release management, and change control processes.

• Experience in coordinating software development, integration, testing, and deployment efforts.

• Capability to comprehend high-level software architectures, system interfaces, integration dependencies, and technical risks.

• Strong skills in requirements gathering and stakeholder management.

• Excellent abilities in risk, issue, and dependency management.

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, especially in fast-paced delivery settings.

• Exceptional communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.

• Ability to influence stakeholders and achieve results without direct line management authority.

• Experience with project management and planning tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, or similar.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

• Capability to handle multiple projects and competing priorities simultaneously.

• Experience in banking, retail, payments, or cash management/ATM solutions (preferred).

• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project delivery methodologies (preferred).

• Experience in managing third-party vendors and global delivery teams (preferred).

• Understanding of IT service management and operational support processes (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase up to five additional days.

• Competitive company pension scheme.

• Continuous training and development opportunities.

• Private medical insurance for all employees (enhanced membership can be acquired for family members).

• Dental insurance for all employees.

• Life assurance coverage.

• Income protection scheme.

• Employee assistance program.

• Employee Wellbeing events and access to Mental Health First Aiders.

• Employee My Benefits portal providing extensive retail discounts.

• Complimentary office parking.