Technical Project Manager

Role - Technical Project Manager Location - Burgess Hill, UK (Hybrid) Type - Contract (Inside IR35) or Fixed Term (12 months) : Key Responsibilities Technical Project & Delivery Management

• Lead end-to-end delivery of mobile and digital technology initiatives across planning, build, testing, release, and launch.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans covering scope, milestones, sequencing, dependencies, risks, assumptions, and release timelines.
• Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Owners, Architects, Engineers, QA, and enterprise teams to drive execution and resolve delivery challenges.
• Identify and proactively manage risks, blockers, technical dependencies, and cross-team dependencies, ensuring clear ownership and timely resolution.
• Manage multiple workstreams and provide clear visibility into progress, priorities, decisions, dependencies, and delivery forecasts.
• Support scope, sequencing, and timeline trade-offs while maintaining alignment between Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Maintain delivery traceability and execution discipline through effective use of Jira and Confluence. Release & Operational Readiness
• Coordinate end-to-end release readiness, including environments, version planning, feature flags, handoffs, launch dependencies, and distribution constraints.
• Coordinate stakeholders during production issues and drive actions through containment and resolution.
• Partner with Engineering and Operational teams to continuously improve release confidence, quality, and service stability. Agile Leadership & Team Enablement
• Lead and support Agile delivery practices including backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand-ups, PI planning, reviews, retrospectives, and risk management.
• Stay closely engaged with teams to understand delivery progress, surface issues early, and remove impediments.
• Promote transparency, accountability, servant leadership, continuous improvement, and sustainable delivery.
• Use delivery and quality metrics, retrospectives, and learning loops to improve flow and predictability. Qualification Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, another technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in technical project management, program delivery, or software delivery management within technology and engineering environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end delivery of Android and iOS complex customer-facing software, platforms, or enterprise technology initiatives.
• Strong experience working directly with engineering teams, architects, product teams, QA, and enterprise technology stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, and SAFe delivery practices, including planning, forecasting, dependency management, and scaled delivery.
• Technical fluency with software architecture, APIs, integrations, engineering dependencies, quality risks, and software release processes.
• Strong project management capabilities across planning, scope, risks, issues, dependencies, milestones, stakeholder management, and delivery governance.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple teams/workstreams and complex cross-functional dependencies in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication, facilitation, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Practical experience with Jira and Confluence.
• Must hold one or more recognised Agile certifications such as Certified Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist, SAFe Agile Scrum Master, or equivalent.