Technical Project Manager

Description


The Technical Release Manager / Technical Program Manager is responsible for leading the planning, governance, coordination, and execution of technical programs and production releases for the Omnichannel Engagement Platform (OEP). This role ensures engineering initiatives are thoroughly planned, coordinated, governed, and communicated from initiation through production deployment.


The position serves as the central point of coordination across engineering leadership, functional tower leads, operations, and external partners to drive alignment, manage dependencies, facilitate decision-making, and ensure successful execution.


The ideal candidate combines exceptional program and release management skills with strong technical acumen. While not expected to design or develop software, they must possess sufficient technical understanding to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, validate implementation and testing strategies, identify gaps in technical plans, and proactively manage delivery risks before they impact execution. #LI-VK1


Requirements


- 8+ years of technical program management, technical project management, or release management supporting enterprise software platforms.
- Experience leading complex software delivery programs with multiple workstreams, dependencies, and cross-functional teams.
- Proven experience managing production releases and coordinating large-scale implementation activities.
- Strong understanding of Agile delivery, SDLC, Azure DevOps (ADO), release governance, and production implementation planning.
- Working knowledge of APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and modern software engineering practices sufficient to effectively challenge assumptions and validate engineering plans.
- Experience preparing executive-level communications, dashboards, presentations, and delivery status updates for Director- and VP-level leadership.
- Demonstrated success managing risks, issues, dependencies, critical path activities, and executive escalations.
- Experience coordinating engineering leadership, functional tower leads, operations, and external delivery partners.


Job responsibilities


Program & Project Management


- Lead end-to-end planning, coordination, and governance of technical programs and production releases.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, critical path activities, and delivery schedules.
- Coordinate cross-functional workstreams to ensure alignment with committed milestones and release objectives.
- Monitor overall program health and proactively address issues that may impact delivery.


Technical Planning & Release Management


- Partner with engineering leadership, functional tower leads, and external partners to translate technical solutions into executable implementation plans.
- Review implementation plans for completeness, sequencing, validation activities, dependencies, rollback procedures, operational readiness, and production support requirements.
- Consolidate implementation activities into Azure DevOps (ADO) work items, release documentation, implementation plans, release notes, and operational runbooks.
- Challenge technical plans when implementation details, validation activities, or dependencies are incomplete or introduce unnecessary delivery risk.


Risk, Issue & Dependency Management


- Proactively identify technical, operational, and program risks before they impact delivery.
- Manage cross-team dependencies and critical path activities across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Drive mitigation planning, issue resolution, and executive escalation as appropriate.
- Provide leadership with clear recommendations, business impacts, and decision points rather than simply reporting status.


Executive Communication & Governance


- Prepare concise executive-level status reports, dashboards, presentations, and release readiness updates.
- Translate complex technical initiatives into clear business outcomes, delivery confidence, milestones, risks, and recommended actions.
- Present program health, implementation readiness, RAID items, delivery forecasts, and strategic recommendations to Directors, VPs, and senior leadership.


Cross-Functional Leadership


- Coordinate activities across engineering leadership, QA, DevOps, Requirements, Operations, and external partners.
- Build trusted relationships that promote accountability, transparency, collaboration, and timely decision-making.
- Influence without direct authority while driving alignment across multiple organizations and workstreams.


Partner & Vendor Management


- Coordinate delivery across multiple external engineering partners.
- Drive accountability for partner commitments, timelines, quality, and delivery execution.
- Facilitate issue resolution, resource coordination, and executive escalations when necessary.
- Foster a collaborative, one-team delivery culture across client and partner organizations.


Continuous Improvement


- Identify opportunities to improve release governance, delivery planning, operational readiness, and execution maturity.
- Drive improvements to release documentation, implementation quality, and engineering delivery processes.
- Promote best practices that improve delivery predictability, operational excellence, and production stability.


GlobalLogic estimates the starting pay range for this role to be performed in Chicago IL is $125,000 to $135,000 and reflects base salary only. This pay range is provided as a good faith estimate and the amount offered may be higher or lower. GlobalLogic takes many factors into consideration in making an offer, including candidate qualifications, work experience, operational needs, travel and onsite requirements, internal peer equity, prevailing wage, responsibilities, and other market and business considerations.


What we offer


Exciting Projects: Come take your place at the forefront of digital transformation! With clients across all industries and sectors, we offer an opportunity to work on market-defining products using the latest technologies.


Collaborative Environment: You can expand your skills by collaborating with a diverse team of highly talented people in an open, laidback environment - or even abroad in one of our global centers or client facilities!


Work-Life Balance: GlobalLogic prioritizes work-life balance, which is why we offer flexible work schedules and opportunities to work from home.


Professional Development: We provide continuing education classes, professional certification and training (technical, soft skills, language, and communication skills) to help you realize your professional goals. Being part of a global organization, there are additional learning opportunities through international knowledge exchanges.


Excellent Benefits: We provide our employees with competitive salaries, health and life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, a matched contribution 401K plan, flexible spending accounts, and PTO and holidays


About GlobalLogic


GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, is a trusted digital engineering partner to the world's largest and most forward-thinking companies. Since 2000, we've been at the forefront of the digital revolution - helping create some of the most innovative and widely used digital products and experiences. Today we continue to collaborate with clients in transforming businesses and redefining industries through intelligent products, platforms, and services.