Technical Project Manager

We’re looking for an experienced Technical Project Manager to join our Technology Delivery team and lead the delivery of technology-enabled change across QA.

This is a hybrid role, predominantly home-based, with occasional travel required for stakeholder meetings.

Working closely with Product Owners, technical leads and stakeholders, you’ll shape and manage delivery plans, dependencies and risks, creating the conditions for cross-functional teams to deliver successfully.

You’ll take ownership of projects from initiation through to go-live and benefits realisation, using agile ways of working to deliver valuable outcomes predictably and transparently while driving continuous improvement.

• Own end-to-end project delivery using agile approaches, from initiation through delivery, go-live and benefits realisation.
• Create and maintain delivery plans, milestones, sprint schedules, release plans and integrated dependency maps.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives.
• Manage risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID), alongside appropriate delivery governance and change control.
• Lead stakeholder management and communications, providing clear status reporting, forecasts and decision points.
• Coordinate delivery across product, engineering, data, security, operations and external vendors.
• Plan and assure testing and release readiness, including UAT, training, cutover and operational handover.
• Manage project budgets, forecasts, spend, supplier deliverables and commercial constraints.
• Maintain clear project documentation, including delivery plans, RAID logs, decision logs, release notes and handover information.
• Support change, communications and adoption activities with business and operational stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery practices, metrics, team health and stakeholder outcomes.

You’ll be an experienced project professional with a strong background in delivering technology-enabled change using agile approaches within complex stakeholder environments.

You’ll be comfortable bringing structure to ambiguity, managing competing priorities and keeping delivery moving ong stakeholder management will be key, as you’ll work across technical and business teams as well as with senior stakeholders and third-party suppliers.

You’ll also be confident facilitating agile ceremonies and stakeholder workshops, managing project controls and communicating risks, progress and options clearly.

We’re looking for experience in:

• Delivering technology-enabled change using agile approaches.
• Creating and managing delivery plans and sprint/release schedules.
• Facilitating agile ceremonies and driving continuous improvement.
• Managing RAID, delivery governance and senior stakeholder communications.
• Working with third-party suppliers and multidisciplinary internal teams.
• Managing project budgets, forecasts, supplier deliverables and commercial constraints.
• Planning releases, cutover and operational handover, including readiness, training and support.
• Delivering at pace within pressurised environments while keeping projects on track.
• Stakeholder management and user workshop facilitation.

You’ll bring:

• A good understanding of agile delivery frameworks, including Scrum and/or Kanban.
• Strong project planning, organisation and prioritisation skills.
• Strong agile project management and software lifecycle knowledge.
• Knowledge of project controls, including budgeting, supplier management, risk management and reporting.
• Awareness of the software delivery lifecycle, environments, testing,…