Job Description
The Technical Program Manager (TPM) is responsible for driving the planning, coordination, governance, and execution of cross-functional technology programs and strategic initiatives across the Technology division.
The TPM serves as a central coordination point between Technology, Product Management, business stakeholders, and executive management, ensuring that technology initiatives are clearly defined, effectively planned, transparently tracked, and successfully delivered.
The role requires a strong combination of technical understanding, program management expertise, business orientation, and the ability to drive execution across multiple teams without necessarily having direct managerial authority.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the coordination, planning, and tracking of technology programs and software-based projects across the Technology division.
- Develop and maintain integrated program and project plans, including milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, and delivery schedules.
- Drive end-to-end program governance to ensure technology initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with business priorities.
- Collaborate closely with Product Management to understand business needs, translate them into executable technology initiatives, and serve as a key coordination point between Product and Technology.
- Build strong partnerships with business stakeholders across the organization to understand priorities, align expectations, and facilitate effective execution.
- Identify cross-team dependencies, risks, execution bottlenecks, and conflicting priorities, and proactively drive mitigation and resolution in collaboration with Technology senior management.
- Lead the tracking and monitoring of major strategic technology initiatives, such as trading platform stabilization, infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, AI adoption, and other technology-led programs.
- Establish and maintain clear reporting mechanisms and dashboards that provide visibility into program status, milestones, risks, dependencies, priorities, KPIs, and delivery progress.
- Facilitate program governance meetings, project reviews, steering committees, planning sessions, and executive status updates.
- Ensure effective communication and alignment between technical teams, Product Management, business stakeholders, and executive management.
- Drive accountability across programs by actively following up on commitments, action items, decisions, milestones, and project deliverables.
- Monitor program health through relevant KPIs and metrics and provide data-driven insights, escalation, and recommendations when corrective action is required.
- Define, standardize, and continuously improve project and program management methodologies, governance processes, templates, tools, and best practices across the Technology division.
- Coordinate post-project reviews, capture lessons learned and ensure that insights are incorporated into future programs and ways of working.
- Foster a culture of transparency, collaboration, ownership, accountability, and operational excellence across the Technology organization.
Requirements
- 5+ years of proven experience in Technical Program Management, Project Management, or a similar role within a technology-driven organization.
- Strong understanding of software development and technology delivery processes, with the ability to work effectively with engineering, infrastructure, cloud, data, security, and other technical teams.
- Proven experience leading complex, cross-company and cross-functional projects, collaborating with diverse stakeholders across business and technology functions.
- Strong project and program management capabilities, including planning, dependency management, risk management, governance, and execution tracking.
- Ability to understand business requirements and effectively bridge the gap between business, Product, and Technology teams.
- Strong analytical skills and experience using KPIs, metrics, and reporting to assess program health and support decision-making.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and presentation skills.
- Ability to influence, create alignment, and drive accountability without relying on direct managerial authority.
- Assertive, responsible, and highly accountable, with the confidence to challenge, escalate, and drive decisions when required.
- Highly organized, proactive, execution-oriented, and comfortable operating in a dynamic environment with multiple priorities.
- Advantage: Experience in fintech, financial services, trading platforms, or other regulated technology environments.