Senior Technical Project Manager

Job Description

We're seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to own delivery end-to-end within our domain-based delivery model. This unified role combines project governance with agile facilitation and servant leadership, driving iterative progress across waterfall, agile, and hybrid approaches.

You'll work flexibly across domains in response to project demand, collaborating with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architecture, Engineering, and Business colleagues to deliver defined capabilities within feasibility constraints.

What You'll Be Doing

Strategic Delivery Leadership

• Define project roadmaps, milestones, and success criteria
• Develop business cases and funding requests grounded in defined value
• Manage scope, schedule, and budget; proactively monitor progress and initiate corrective action
• Ensure adherence to best practices and business value tracking

Agile Facilitation & Scrum Practice

• Facilitate agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, demos)
• Coach teams on agile/scrum values and self-organisation
• Track and communicate delivery progress using appropriate metrics
• Champion iterative delivery and continuous improvement

Delivery Ownership

• Lead end-to-end product development and initiative delivery
• Adapt quickly across different domains as project demand shifts
• Lead inceptions for sizeable initiatives and maintain delivery artefacts
• Manage project budgets and escalate risks to cost, time, or quality

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as primary interface across business, technology, and product teams
• Communicate project goals clearly and inspire teams to achieve results
• Unblock conflicting priorities to keep delivery on track
• Facilitate relationships with third-party development teams

RAID Management & Governance

• Identify and manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies
• Collaborate with peers on cross-domain dependencies
• Support programme-level quarterly alignment and resource planning

Team Leadership

• Provide servant leadership through coaching and facilitation
• Build high-performing, collaborative environments
• Facilitate workshops and problem-solving sessions
• Ensure knowledge transfer into domains following successful delivery