Technical Project Manager
HybridChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job Summary
Own the client relationship across 4–6 concurrent engagements as the primary point of contact and escalation path. Run client governance including weekly status calls, monthly steering committees, and executive updates while maintaining a single, current view of all projects. Context-switch cleanly between engagements at different phases—discovery, build, stabilization, and ramp-down—without losing thread on any of them. Drive delivery governance across all teams through sprint planning, milestone reviews, and demos. Partner with tech leads on scoping and estimation to surface assumptions and manage change orders. Lead pre-sales support for discovery questionnaires and proposal walk-throughs. Coach delivery leads on PM rigor and improve internal delivery playbooks as the firm scales.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years total experience in IT/technology delivery, with an early-career foundation in a technical role (engineering, QA, technical support, business analysis, or similar) before transitioning into project management
- 3+ years in a directly client-facing PM, TPM, or delivery lead role at a consulting firm, GSI, or product company with a services arm — you have personally owned senior client relationships, not just supported them
- Proven track record running multiple parallel engagements (3+ at a time) with distinct clients, timelines, and tech stacks — and the operating habits to keep them all on track
- Strong executive presence and stakeholder management skills — comfortable presenting to and pushing back on Directors, VPs, and CTOs on scope, timeline, and commercial topics
- Broad technical literacy — you can follow a high-level conversation about cloud, data, or AI systems, ask sensible questions, and translate between engineering and business; you do not need to be hands-on
- Strong command of delivery methodologies — Agile/Scrum, Kanban, milestone/waterfall — and the judgment to know when to use which
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English — you can write a crisp status update, run a steering committee, lead a difficult escalation call, and de-escalate a tense client conversation
- Process-driven mindset balanced with startup pragmatism — you build structure where it is missing, but you do not let process become the work
- Result-oriented — you measure success by what shipped and what the client got, not by tickets closed
- Comfort with project tooling (Jira, Confluence, Asana, Notion) and reporting tools (Looker, Sheets, Excel)
Desired Qualifications
- Exposure to GCP, BigQuery, Looker, Snowflake, Databricks, or Elasticsearch in past delivery roles
- Experience delivering data platform, BI migration, or AI/ML engagements
- Experience managing fixed-price and T&M engagements, including commercial governance and change orders
- PMP, PRINCE2, CSM, or SAFe certification
- Pre-sales / solution-shaping experience
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