We are looking for a hands-on Technical Project Manager who can code, lead technical teams, manage project delivery, and handle clients. This role combines product ownership, technical delivery, and stakeholder management.

The ideal candidate can understand business problems, challenge requirements, collaborate with engineering teams, and drive end-to-end delivery. You combine strong software development experience with project management and customer-facing skills, and use AI tools to improve engineering and delivery efficiency.

ROLE DETAILS

- Client interface: Onsite point of contact for a leading global technology client's stakeholders, working closely with the onsite team and client stakeholders during PST hours

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Product & Requirements Management (40%)

- Understand customer needs, business objectives, and expected outcomes
- Translate requirements into transparent features, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Own backlog prioritization based on business value, dependencies, and engineering capacity
- Challenge assumptions, identify gaps, and ensure requirements are ready for development
- Leverage AI to accelerate requirement analysis, documentation, backlog refinement, and decision- making
- Ensure solutions address the underlying business problem and deliver measurable value

Technical Delivery Management (60%)

- Own end-to-end delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, quality, and releases
- Drive Agile ceremonies, sprint execution, delivery tracking, and release readiness
- Coordinate onsite/offshore engineering, QA, architects, and stakeholder teams
- Maintain strong delivery discipline using Azure DevOps, including backlog tracking, RAID, and reporting
- Proactively identify risks, resolve blockers, manage escalations, and drive Root Cause Analysis




- Use AI and automation to improve delivery visibility, productivity, reporting, and operational efficiency
- Ensure predictable delivery with high quality, security, and production readiness

Technical Leadership & Stakeholder Management

- Collaborate with architects and engineers on solution feasibility, architecture, APIs, integrations, and technical dependencies
- Evaluate technical options considering scalability, maintainability, cost, and delivery impact
- Act as a trusted interface between client stakeholders and offshore engineering teams (onsite in Redmond; aligned to PST hours from India)
- Communicate status, risks, decisions, and recommendations clearly and proactively
- Identify opportunities for innovation, simplification, reuse, and AI-driven process improvements
- Drive stakeholder alignment, timely decisions, and end-to-end accountability

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

- 7+ years in Technical Project Management, Technical Program Management, or Product Delivery
- Strong hands-on experience in the Microsoft technology ecosystem along with Azure cloud services
- Experience delivering enterprise software, cloud applications, or data platforms
- Strong Agile/Scrum, backlog management, project planning, and release management experience
- Good technical understanding of APIs, databases, integrations, application architecture, and Azure cloud services
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar tools
- Practical experience using AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, or equivalent for analysis, documentation, planning, and productivity improvement
- Experience managing distributed onsite/offshore engineering teams
- Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently, make informed decisions, and proactively drive outcomes

📌 Technical Project Manager (Redmond)
🏢 Round1 Jobs
📍 Redmond