Technical Project Manager (TPM)

What will you do?

Core:

• Communicating clearly and effectively with the team as well as clients. 

• Own the stages of the project from planning to delivery. 

• Ability to filter reasonable and unreasonable asks and then to solve the concerns and coach the team members accordingly. 

• Make sure that your team members get a good work-life balance while meeting the project deliverables. 

• Good understanding of the systems as a whole, you have an innate love for understanding systems and architectures.

• Constant learning to understand the larger context around the work area and the technologies used in the projects. 

 

Management:

• Act as a single point of contact for the client and team members 

• Keep track of milestones, tasks being executed, etc, and create status reports for the same. 

• Help the team set up the right processes from the beginning be it technical or around better management. 

• Keep track of the schedule, risks, and any dependencies/blockers and work actively towards resolving those ahead of time

• You are clear with estimates of complex tasks and are learning to estimate modules etc. with fair degree of accuracy.

• You are able to understand priorities between modules and team members and their tasks.

• You are able to create feedback loops with external/internal stakeholders

 

Organization Building :

• You own and drive a few major initiatives which have organization-wide impact and work across functions and teams to make things happen as part of those initiatives.

• You are a number lover and working to improve reporting and management across organizations while causing minimal work or disruption on individual contributor’s side.
  
  

What do you have? 

• You are someone who is able to map the aspirations with the career progression. You have handled a team of more than 10 people and helped them grow. 

• You have a solid understanding of SDLC lifecycle and do not shy away to get your hands dirty with understanding and creating technical solutions and architecture. 

• Should have experience in delivering software projects with fixed scope as well as T&M.

• You are someone who has a deep understanding of converting work to metrics and come up with weekly/monthly and quarterly status reports. 

• You are someone who has a background in delivery (ideally, has worked his/her way up from working as a developer)

• You love interacting with customers and are able to ask questions, get clarity and keep a clear channel of communication with them. 

• You have worked in an environment where things have been out of control and you now are able to manage risks as well as have a good idea of disaster management. 

• In your previous experience, you have worked in a customer-facing environment and know the best practices of client interaction.

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Last updated on Oct 28, 2024