Job Title
Technical Program Manager / Delivery Manager
Duration
Fulltime with CriticalRiver
Location
Brazil / Costa Rica
Need to support PST timings
Job Profile
Manage delivery for our key customers across all the technological tracks
Manage and lead teams across technologies, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
Ensure regular updates to customer stakeholders sent through WSRs
Conduct MBRs and QBRs
Achieve high customer delight
Roles and Responsibilities
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and budget by working with technology teams.
- Work closely with customer stakeholders and ensure the project scope is well understood and documented as per the defined standards.
- Manage and lead teams across technologies, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
- Work with PMO and ensure quality control procedures to ensure high standards in the delivery.
- Act as a delivery point of contact for Customer, understanding the Customer, managing expectations and ensuring highest customer satisfaction.
- Service / Project Review meetings with Customer and Management.
- Adopt customer specific processes and methodologies.
- Proactively identify, evaluate, and mitigate project risks effectively.
- Ensure that the project teams meet SLAs and avoid service credits / penalties.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project delivery processes, methodologies, and best practices.
- Utilize effective conflict resolution and negotiation tactics to maintain high-level performance within service teams.
- Establish and monitor KRAs and KPIs as performance metrics for team members.
- Support hiring the right resources for various tracks as the roles get identified by working with the TAG teams.
- Ensure SOWs are signed and invoices cleared on-time by working with finance teams and the customer stakeholders.
- Continuously work with individual members in the project teams and ensure their contributions are made visible to customer in terms of activities / stories / Jira tickets as applicable on a weekly basis and obtain continuous feedback on the performance of the teams and course correct as needed appropriately.
- Work with customer stakeholders, identify opportunities, proactively create proposals with efforts, solutioning and financials.
Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Proven experience in software development project management, having worked with onshore / nearshore / offshore models; open to be flexible to speak to teams in different time zones.
- Exceptional communication, interpersonal, thought leadership skills with the ability to effectively engage with customers, stakeholders, and cross‑functional teams.
- Strong leadership and team‑management skills.
- Familiarity with various project management tools and methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum, ITIL).
- Problem‑solving mindset and ability to manage complex project challenges.