Senior Technical Project Manager

We're looking for a talented Senior Technical Project Manager to join our team. As a Senior Technical Project Manager, you will identify, plan, and coordinate related projects within a program and manage their interdependencies to support specific business strategies. You will also apply project management principles and techniques to lead project schedule, scope, quality, cost, and performance risks. The Senior Technical Project Manager will work closely with cross-discipline technology teams, leadership, and business partners to understand technical and business direction, milestones, and budget, as well as provide thought leadership to the project management team.

What You ll Do:

• Drives execution and delivery of technical projects through the full delivery life cycle, ensuring the project is delivered on time and on-budget.
• Works with engineering teams, including Software Engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and leadership, to establish processes across all program areas that will ensure success on strategically prioritized projects and improve efficiency.
• Defines, optimizes, and manages Agile project management ceremonies and processes for large project teams.
• Maintains monthly forecast submissions, including adjustments to resource allocations, vendor payment schedules, and forecasts for partner teams.
• Conduct regular program status meetings with all partners, ensuring needs and requirements are met.
• Build program reports and dashboards for program management, sponsors, and partners.
• Monitors & adjusts program plan to respond to unplanned changes, ensuring the program is progressing to meet business goals.
• Act as a primary liaison among multiple teams, including Product Management, Design, Technology, vendors, and other key functional delivery teams.
• Lead project delivery by coordinating cross-functional dependencies, resolving blockers, and managing RAID to ensure milestones stay on track.
• Escalate key issues and risks to ensure timely resolution and mitigation.
• Ensure proper project closure, including lessons learned, transition and hand-off to production operations support, and final financial reporting.
• Own Jira and Confluence administration, governance, and executive reporting, ensuring consistent Agile processes, traceability, and delivery visibility.
• Drive roadmap planning, dependency mapping, and infrastructure migration coordination using Advanced Roadmaps and aligned tracking artifacts.
• Support cross-functional teams through training, coaching, and program-level coordination across Scrum teams and vendors.
• Support Jira Cloud migration readiness, including cleanup, process alignment, and adoption support.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years of technical project/program management experience working with technical teams developing enterprise-class solutions.
• Understanding of Cloud, APIs, services, database technologies, technologist roles and responsibilities, capabilities & platform. dependencies, software development lifecycle, engineering and/or product development.
• Influence and negotiation, communication, professional maturity & organizational savvy, relationship building, dependency mapping
• Hands-on experience with practices such as Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall as well as extensive experience with pragmatic blending of styles to facilitate collaboration and delivery.
• Deep understanding of Agile technical practices, DevOps, and testing concepts (CI/CD, TDD).
• Significant experience in coaching and mentoring teams on project management practices including Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall.
• Experience and knowledge of AI emerging technologies, nomenclature, and strategies.
• Excellent ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of a project.
• Experience managing large project budgets.
• Experience with tools such as: Microsoft Suite, Keynote, Smartsheet, MyPPM (Clarity), MyJira, Tableau, Claude, and Power BI.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
• Experience in supporting large-scale, global software development programs.

Benefits:

• 401(k).
• Dental Insurance.
• Health insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity, equality, inclusion, and respect for people.
• The salary will be determined based on several factors, including, but not limited to, location, relevant education, qualifications, experience, technical skills, and business needs.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Participate in OP monthly team meetings and participate in team-building efforts.
• Contribute to OP technical discussions, peer reviews, etc.
• Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base.
• Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested.

About us:
At OP, we help you harness the power of technology for maximum impact. A technology consulting and solutions company, we offer advisory and managed services, innovative platforms, and staffing solutions across a wide range of fields including AI, cyber security, enterprise architecture, and beyond. For nearly two decades, we ve been challenging the status quo of the consulting industry, serving up fresh, ingenious thinking through a radically lean structure. Together, this strategy delivers unprecedented performance at an unparalleled pace for faster results that propel your business forward.