Senior Technical Project Manager
Senior Technical Project Manager – digital (cloud) transformation: Excellent interpersonal, influencing, technical gravitas and presentation skills required by our Client, an established leader in their industry with blue-chip clients in their EU operation. They are on a mission to re-invent the industry with exciting new products and technology which seeks to disrupt with UX-driven data-centric digital capabilities.
As an experienced tech specialist, you will have the scars, you will have managed product builds and services, you will have overcome hurdles and tackled complex problems. You will have the expertise to suggest the best approach to finding solutions that scale and are able to help drive their products from concept to completion.
Senior Technical Project Manager – digital (cloud) transformation – Role requirements:
Possess a mix of strong technical credibility and exceptional customer-facing skills. Be a technically credible and a thought-leader. Have a real aptitude and passion for ambitious data & digital products. Multi-sided Platform or Marketplace (B2B & B2B2C) experience strongly preferred.
As an experienced technical Project Manager, it’s essential you have a proven track record of planning and leading meetings, implementing and driving development through the entire sprint and delivery process. You will be expected to identify blockers preventing team members from completing their work.
Senior Technical Project Manager – digital (cloud) transformation – Responsibilities:
- Day to day management of cross-platform initiatives
- Management of internal, offshore & 3rd party teams
- Technical leadership alongside internal and client business, development and infrastructure teams
- Manage the build of highly scalable, cloud-native applications on the GCP / AWS platforms using core developer services
- Cost optimisation
- Drive adoption of new emerging products and service, managing risk and commercial considerations with possible competitive advantages
Senior Technical Project Manager – digital (cloud) transformation – Core skills required:
- Proven experience in delivering cloud-based (AWS or GCP) projects and products
- Proven experience using a range of agile/scrum methods
- Proven experience balancing multiple priorities and dealing with ambiguity
- Project management qualification
- Background working on digital transformations
- Knowledge of fundamentals of iterative agile development
- Understanding software development processes and procedures
- Experience of incremental delivery and the value of metrics
- Backlog tracking, service-oriented environments and best development practices
- Senior stakeholder management experience
- Proven track record of presenting and planning team meetings
- Excellent understanding of Jira, Jira customisation, Confluence, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment; CI/CD
Senior Technical Project Manager – digital (cloud) transformation – General Background
Strongly prefer at least a partial blue-chip background; ideally technology-first companies like social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, etc.), Google or AWS partners, Digital disrupters (Deliveroo, Uber, Eventbrite, Babylon, etc.), mobile telcos., challenger banks (Monzo, Tide, Starling), etc. – with a structured and analytical (but not theoretical) approach to problem-solving.
Senior Technical Project Manager – digital (cloud) transformation – Education
STEM Bachelor’s degree required minimum
Job Features
Job Category | IT |
Salary | £80000 |
Job Reference | ARBSSTPM |