Agile Project Manager

Job Description – Technical Head

Industry: Fintech / Financial Services

Experience: 15–20+ years (20 years preferred)

Location: Noida

Reporting To: CEO / Managing Director

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Technical Head to lead and manage the company's IT team, technology infrastructure, software development, and fintech platforms. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring technology reliability, security, scalability, and alignment with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the IT team, including developers, infrastructure, and technical support professionals.
• Oversee software development, application maintenance, system integration, and technology implementation.
• Manage fintech platforms, payment systems, banking APIs, and third-party integrations, as applicable.
• Ensure IT infrastructure, cloud systems, databases, and applications operate securely and efficiently.
• Implement cybersecurity measures, data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes.
• Manage technology projects, vendors, budgets, and delivery timelines.
• Coordinate with senior management to develop and execute technology strategy.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory, security, and IT governance requirements.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
• 15–20+ years of experience in IT, with 20 years preferred.
• Proven experience in technology leadership and IT team management.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and DevOps.
• Experience in fintech, banking, payments, or financial services preferred.
• Strong leadership, problem-solving, project management, and communication skills.

Work Location: In person

ROLE SUMMARY:

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting people, technical processes, and engineering execution to ensure projects are delivered as per scope, budget, and timelines.

This role includes developing detailed project plans and comprehensive technical documentation, managing project Engineers and their availability, measuring engineering performance, tracking progress, and communicating project status to clients and internal stakeholders. You will work directly with Solutions Architects, Tech Leads, and Engineering teams to evaluate technical trade-offs, drive system design feasibility, and unblock engineering bottlenecks.

You will be a reliable and crucial team member who can anticipate client needs and translate complex technical requirements into actionable project milestones.

As a Technical Project Manager, you will be the point of contact for all stakeholders from initiation to closure and will be responsible for leading the technical delivery team to achieve project objectives. You will work towards balancing technical constraints, technical debt, and Engineer availability on the project. You will report project status to client and internal stakeholders, escalate technical and operational issues as needed, and perform risk management to identify and mitigate architectural and delivery risks while maintaining strong advocacy within your spheres of influence.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Technical Project Manager with 7+ years experience: Including minimum 3 years of IT (Mobile/Web) project management experience and a prior background as a Software Engineer, Tech Lead, or Developer.

Strong expertise in Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).

Must have handled end-to-end SDLC projects as a Technical Project Manager or Scrum Master.

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE?

Handle a portfolio of technical projects and clients in parallel and across geographies.

Develop an execution plan for projects, release schedules, CI/CD milestones, and team allocation.

Partner with technical leads to review high-level system designs, break down complex requirements into epics and user stories, and challenge technical estimates effectively.

Maintain strong relationships with product delivery, engineering leads, sales teams, clients, and account managers.

Expertise in project estimation, planning, tracking, scope control, technical risk and issues management, as well as engineering status reporting.

GOOD TO HAVE:

Hands-on or architecture exposure to.NET/Java/AWS/Azure or microservices architectures.

PMP / PMI-ACP / CSM (Certified ScrumMaster) certification.

Jira/Confluence project management tools expertise, Git workflows, and strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

COMPETENCIES:

Strong commitment to professional client service and engineering excellence.

Excellent communication (written, verbal, and presentation), persuasive, and negotiating skills—with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Encourage, motivate, and mentor team members on agile practices and technical ownership.

Proactive can-do and technical problem-solving approach to the job.

Regards

About Solutionara

Solutionara is a U.S.-based IT Consulting and Technology Services firm with a Global Delivery Center in Noida, India.

As a fast-scaling consulting firm, we operate with high ownership, lean teams, and disciplined execution. We are also evolving toward an AI-enabled delivery model, focused on enterprise integration, digital transformation, and scalable technology solutions for global clients.

Our GDC plays a critical role in building high-impact engineering and delivery teams while driving operational excellence through structured processes and intelligent automation.

Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh | On-site

Experience: 5–9 Years

Employment: Full-Time

Industry: IT Consulting & Technology Services

About the Role

Solutionara is looking for a Technical Project Manager – Enterprise Technology to join our Global Delivery Center in Noida.

This is a hands-on technology delivery role for someone who can operate effectively between project management and engineering teams. You will be responsible for translating technical work into structured delivery plans, coordinating cross-functional engineering teams, managing technical dependencies and risks, and driving projects from planning through deployment and stabilization.

You will work closely with Solution Architects, Technical Leads, Developers, Integration Engineers, Data Engineers, DevOps, QA, Business Analysts, client stakeholders, and vendors.

This role requires more than maintaining Jira boards and scheduling meetings. We are looking for someone who understands how technology projects are actually delivered and can ask the right questions when architecture, environments, APIs, integrations, infrastructure, data, testing, or deployment dependencies begin affecting the plan.

What You'll Do

Technical Project Delivery

• Manage technology projects from requirements and planning through development, integration, testing, deployment, and hypercare.
• Build and maintain detailed project plans, milestones, technical workstreams, dependencies, deliverables, and release schedules.
• Translate technical activities and engineering estimates into executable delivery plans.
• Coordinate work across application development, integration, cloud/DevOps, data, QA, architecture, and infrastructure teams.
• Understand technical blockers sufficiently to identify their delivery impact and drive the appropriate teams toward resolution.
• Challenge assumptions, timelines, estimates, and dependencies when delivery risks emerge.
• Ensure technical decisions, dependencies, assumptions, and actions are documented and followed through.

Delivery Governance & Control

• Maintain RAID logs, dependency trackers, decision logs, action items, milestones, and project health indicators.
• Identify schedule, resource, technical, environmental, integration, and deployment risks before they become delivery failures.
• Establish clear ownership and due dates for risks, issues, dependencies, and actions.
• Track planned versus actual progress and develop recovery plans when projects begin to slip.
• Manage scope changes and coordinate impact assessments across schedule, resources, technical dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Escalate issues with clear impact, options, recommendations, and required decisions.
• Maintain accurate project documentation and delivery visibility for leadership and stakeholders.

Engineering & Cross-Functional Coordination

• Work closely with Solution Architects and Technical Leads to understand solution architecture and implementation dependencies.
• Coordinate API, integration, application, infrastructure, data, security, environment, and testing dependencies.
• Facilitate technical planning and dependency discussions across engineering teams.
• Coordinate development readiness, QA readiness, UAT, release readiness, cutover, deployment, and production stabilization.
• Ensure environments, access, infrastructure, test data, interfaces, and external dependencies are available when required.
• Track defects, technical blockers, and production-readiness items through closure.
• Support technical teams without attempting to replace the engineering or architecture functions.

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Participate in and lead client status meetings, delivery reviews, technical coordination meetings, and project governance discussions.
• Communicate technical issues in clear business and delivery terms.
• Provide concise project health reporting covering progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, and upcoming milestones.
• Manage stakeholder expectations around scope, timelines, dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Coordinate across India and global teams working in distributed delivery environments.
• Maintain professional, transparent communication when projects encounter delays or technical challenges.

Agile, Release & Delivery Management

• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog readiness, delivery reviews, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies where applicable.
• Work with engineering leads to ensure stories and technical activities are sufficiently understood before execution.
• Track sprint commitments without treating Agile metrics as a substitute for actual delivery outcomes.
• Coordinate release planning, UAT, change readiness, cutover activities, go-live, and hypercare.
• Support Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models based on project and client requirements.

AI-Assisted Project Delivery

• Use AI and automation tools to improve project planning, documentation, meeting outputs, risk identification, status reporting, and delivery visibility.
• Identify repetitive project-management activities that can be automated or streamlined.
• Encourage responsible use of AI within project workflows while maintaining appropriate review, confidentiality, and accountability.
• Help Solutionara evolve toward a more data-driven and AI-enabled technology delivery model.

What We're Looking For

• 5–9 years of overall experience in technology delivery, with meaningful experience as a Technical Project Manager, Project Manager, Technical Program Manager, Delivery Lead, or similar role.
• Experience managing software engineering, enterprise application, cloud, integration, data, infrastructure, or digital transformation projects.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and how software moves from requirements through development, testing, release, and production.
• Sufficient technical fluency to communicate effectively with Architects, Developers, DevOps Engineers, Integration Engineers, QA, and other technical specialists.
• Hands-on experience with project planning, RAID management, dependency management, risk management, change control, and delivery reporting.
• Experience coordinating multiple technical workstreams and dependencies.
• Ability to identify when a technical issue affects the critical path and drive appropriate recovery actions.
• Strong client and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to bring structure, ownership, and accountability to ambiguous or fast-moving technology projects.
• Strong problem-solving and escalation-management skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced consulting and Global Delivery Center environment.

Technical Fluency

The Technical Project Manager is not expected to be the Solution Architect or primary developer, but should be comfortable discussing and managing delivery around concepts such as:

• REST/SOAP APIs and enterprise integrations
• Application and microservices architecture
• Cloud infrastructure and AWS/Azure environments
• CI/CD and DevOps pipelines
• Databases and data dependencies
• Development, QA, UAT, staging, and production environments
• Authentication, access, networking, and security dependencies
• Deployment, cutover, rollback, and production support
• Defects, logs, monitoring, incidents, and root-cause analysis

The TPM should be able to understand what is blocked, why it matters, who owns it, what it affects, and what needs to happen next.

Preferred Experience

Experience in one or more of the following areas would be an advantage:

• Enterprise Integration – Dell Boomi, APIs, Middleware, EDI
• AWS or Azure Cloud
• DevOps and CI/CD
• Data Engineering or Data Platforms
• ERP, WMS, CRM, PIM/DAM, or enterprise applications
• Application or legacy modernization
• Microservices and API-led architectures
• Digital portals and enterprise applications
• U.S. or global client delivery
• Consulting or technology services organizations
• Onsite-offshore / Global Delivery Center delivery models

What Success Looks Like

• Projects have clear plans, ownership, milestones, and technical dependencies.
• Risks and blockers are identified early rather than discovered at the point of failure.
• Engineering teams have the information, access, environments, and decisions required to execute.
• Technical issues are translated into clear schedule and business impact.
• Delivery commitments are actively managed rather than simply reported.
• Clients and leadership receive accurate and timely visibility into project health.
• Releases and go-lives are planned, controlled, and supported through stabilization.
• Project-management overhead is reduced through effective use of automation and AI.
• Technical teams view the TPM as someone who helps delivery move forward, not simply someone who asks for status updates.

Why Join Solutionara?

• Manage meaningful enterprise technology and transformation initiatives.
• Work directly with experienced architects, engineering leaders, and global clients.
• Build exposure across Cloud, Integration, Data, DevOps, AI, and Digital Transformation.
• Develop toward broader Senior Project Manager, Program Manager, or Technology Delivery leadership responsibilities.
• Have real ownership of technology delivery rather than operating solely as a PMO coordinator.
• Help shape delivery practices as our Noida Global Delivery Center continues to scale.
• Work in an environment actively incorporating AI and automation into technology delivery.