Senior Technical Project Manager

Role Summary: Senior Technical Project Manager Location: Remote Experience: 10 Years to 15 Years Key Responsibilities: - Technical Delivery & Coordination Ownership - Manage technical delivery plans for platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and AI-augmented delivery initiatives, and assist the break-down of complex initiatives into executable work streams. - Facilitate business and technical requirements into solution specifications and delivery plans, working directly with architects, engineering leads, and product stakeholders. - Manage delivery timelines, dependencies, and risk mitigation for multi-team efforts spanning infrastructure, integrations, and deployment automation. - Drive adoption of modern architecture patterns (microservices, serverless, event-driven) and infrastructure-as-code practices across delivery teams. - Establish and track delivery metrics (velocity, cycle time, deployment frequency, lead time) to drive continuous improvement and accountability. Technical Program Facilitation & Team Enablement: - Facilitate team planning, technical reviews, and continuous improvement to ensure iterative delivery with incremental progress. - Drive architectural discussion needing review through gates and design decisions, synthesizing input from engineering teams and guiding technical trade-off decisions. - Identify and resolve delivery blockers by liaising between engineering, ops, and stakeholder teams with technical credibility and urgency. - Foster an environment among engineering leads on delivery excellence, technical project planning, and cross-team communication patterns. - Establish clear acceptance criteria, definition of done, and technical quality standards for platform and infrastructure deliverables. Stakeholder Communication & Risk Management: - Communicate delivery status, technical decisions, and risks to executive stakeholders in clear, actionable terms while escalating obstacles requiring leadership intervention. - Manage technical dependencies across platform initiatives (CI/CD, infrastructure automation, data pipelines, vendor integrations) and coordinate timelines. - Develop and maintain delivery roadmaps visible to all stakeholders, with clear milestone markers, success criteria, and confidence levels. - Proactively identify with tech leads technical debt, infrastructure gaps, and modernization needs; build business cases for strategic platform investments. What Success Looks Like: - Consistent on-time delivery of complex platform and infrastructure initiatives with high team engagement and minimal firefighting. - Engineering teams understand the "why" behind technical decisions, priorities, and dependencies while reducing ambiguity and rework. - Platform milestones are transparent to team and IT leadership; delivery risks are surfaced early with clear mitigation strategies. - Adoption of improved delivery practices (spec-driven development, architectural governance, infrastructure automation) across teams. - Strong collaboration between product, engineering, architecture, and operations; seamless hand-offs between design and execution phases. Required Experience & Technical Background: - Platform Engineering & Cloud Infrastructure (Critical) - 10+ years delivering platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or DevOps initiativescomfortable discussing architecture patterns, deployment strategies, and infrastructure automation. - High familiarity with CI/CD pipeline design, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure monitoring. - Strong understanding of cloud platforms project management (AWS preferred: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and networking components). - Experience managing technical dependencies across teams and orchestrating multi-team delivery efforts in infrastructure and platform contexts. - High understanding in requirements involving microservices architecture, API design patterns, authentication/authorization frameworks, and observability practices (logging, tracing, metrics). Delivery & Leadership: - 5+ years leading technical delivery, program management, or scrum/agile facilitation rolescomfortable defining roadmaps, managing stakeholders, and driving execution. - Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and work with architects on design decisions. - Experience with delivery frameworks (SAFe, Agile, Kanban) and metrics-driven delivery optimization. - Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences. - Demonstrated ability to identify and mitigate delivery risks, resolve blockers, and maintain team velocity in complex environments. Preferred Background & Nice-to-Have Skills: - Hands-on software engineering background with experience in backend systems (Node.js, Python, Java, or similar), RESTful APIs, and microservices. - Familiarity with database (relational, NoSQL), infrastructure, networking, data pipeline architecture, and integration patterns. - Understanding of security best practices, authentication protocols (OAuth2, SAML, MSAL), and secrets management. - Experience in the logistics, supply chain, or transportation technology sectors. - Exposure to AI/ML model deployment pipelines, feature stores, or MLOps practices. - Experience with IT operations management and strategic platform delivery dependency management. - Familiarity with open-source ecosystem governance and enterprise OSS integration patterns. - Background in intermodal, freight, or chassis management systems (preferred for industry context).