TN17 - Technical Project Manager Senior

Rockcruit; Argentina; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 231,811,000; Full time

Job summary

Rockcruit is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead complex multi-vendor implementations. You will align stakeholders, manage commitments, and keep projects on track in a fast-paced environment with client collaboration at the center.

Ideal candidates are strong communicators, detail-oriented, and comfortable solving technical challenges. You will drive schedules, backlogs, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement while guiding the team toward successful Go-Lives and measurable

Qualifications

• 10+ years of project management experience delivering complex, multi-vendor projects.
• Proven ability to manage hybrid Waterfall-Agile environments.
• Excellent English communication with clients and executives.
• Fintech domain knowledge is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Own project execution from planning through delivery to ensure timelines and quality.
• Develop and maintain the project schedule using Microsoft Project.
• Translate client needs into acceptance criteria and manage backlogs.
• Lead Scrum ceremonies and act as the primary escalation point.
• Provide regular status updates to clients and leadership.
• Collaborate with pre-sales and engineering for smooth handoffs.
• Mentor team members and drive performance reviews.
• Identify growth opportunities and support account expansion.

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder alignment

Vendor management

English communication

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

We’re looking for an experienced Project Manager Senior with a strong track record of leading implementations involving multiple vendors. You should be skilled in aligning stakeholders, ensuring commitments are met, and keeping projects on track. You thrive in fast-paced environments, excel at client collaboration, and maintain full control over project execution.

If you are a strong communicator, detail-oriented, and enjoy solving technical challenges, this role is a great fit for you!

Responsibilities

Process Management

• Act as the ultimate authority and accountable owner of project execution, ensuring timelines, quality standards, and customer expectations are met.
• Develop and maintain the project schedule in Microsoft Project.
• Own the backlog: meet with the client to resolve questions, translate needs into acceptance criteria, refine user stories using your judgment and experience, and lead conversations so the whole team shares a common understanding of what needs to be built.
• Collaborate with the Architect to ensure the technical solution stays aligned with the client's needs.
• Lead Scrum ceremonies and internal meetings (Scrum Master role); define each team member's responsibilities and resolve their questions.
• Serve as the primary escalation point: remove blockers, and identify, log, and mitigate risks with contingency plans.
• Document business domain knowledge, definitions, and technical solutions in Confluence; capture and assess change requests and additional scope.
• Report status, performance, and risks to the client, Delivery leadership, and executives, including C-level.
• Collaborate with the Delivery Director on hiring and team expansion needs.
• Capture, document and understand change requests/additional scope.

Time tracking & Resource Management

• Approve time-off requests and weekly timesheets, ensuring project continuity.
• Coordinate with HR and Office Administration on sick leave and study day certifications.
• Oversee onboarding and offboarding of team members.

Client Management

• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for the client's engineering team, providing regular progress updates and demos.
• Become the foremost expert on the client's business logic, product, and objectives, and apply it to project strategy.
• Work with client technical counterparts to keep business and technical requirements aligned.
• Identify growth opportunities, supporting account expansion and upselling.

Pre-Sales to Development Transition

• Act as technical liaison between pre-sales and engineering, ensuring a smooth handoff from specifications to implementation and helping define project scope.

Team Leadership

• Lead and motivate the team, fostering a positive, high-performance culture.
• Hold monthly 1:1s with engineers, providing mentorship and feedback, and conduct annual performance assessments.
• Define career development plans with HR and practice leads

Technical Skills

• 10+ years as a project manager, planning projects and delivering on time with customer satisfaction.
• Experience with a hybrid Waterfall-Agile approach and leading Scrum events.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project.
• Strong technical acumen: cloud architectures, estimation, and go-live activities. A development background is a big plus.
• Ensure technical quality with the Architect, keeping user stories ready for engineers, pull requests on time, and releases on schedule.
• Manage access and setup (vendor APIs, repositories, deployment pipelines).
• Fintech knowledge preferred, banking experience a strong advantage.
• Experience managing revenue, margins, and expenses is desirable.

Soft Skills

• Strong ownership, proactiveness, and sense of urgency; able to work autonomously and make informed decisions.
• Flexible mindset, able to adapt to changing priorities and take on tasks beyond the job description, handling extended work hours when needed.
• Excellent communication and transparency, keeping the Delivery Director informed of obstacles, status, and progress.
• Advanced English (written and spoken) and confident presentation skills for customers and executives.
• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills, balancing client needs and project constraints.
• Client-oriented, with sharp business vision and the ability to spot upselling and cross-selling opportunities.
• Highly organized in a fast-paced environment, able to delegate effectively, and a natural team leader and motivator.