Remote Contract: Technical Project Lead (Delivery & Governance)

Tech Holding; Greater London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

Tech Holding in the UK is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to deliver complex technology programmes on a contract basis. You will stand up projects end-to-end, define scope, governance, and milestones, and coordinate across business, technology, vendors and operations.

The ideal candidate has 5–6 years of hands-on project management experience, deep Agile/Scrum expertise, and strong communication skills to engage technical and non‑technical audiences.

Qualifications

• 5–6 years of hands-on technical project management experience.
• Experience delivering complex technology projects on time in a consulting or agency setting.
• Strong ability to engage with engineering teams and translate technical detail to non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills across cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field (or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Stand up projects end-to-end, defining scope, objectives, success metrics, governance, and ways of working from day one.
• Create and maintain project governance artifacts (charter, RACI, RAID, decision log, integrated plan) as living tools
• Lead cross-functional teams across business, technology, vendors, and operations, aligning contributors to shared outcomes and timelines.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans, including milestones, dependencies, risks, and critical path across workstreams.
• Be able to lead and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies.
• Drive accountability and ownership, ensuring workstream leads and vendors clearly understand their responsibilities.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating early with clear options and recommendations for leadership.
• Facilitate effective governance forums (SteerCo, working sessions, exec reviews) with clear agendas, decisions required, and documented outcomes.
• Provide concise executive reporting, translating delivery status into business impact, risks, decisions needed, and next steps.
• Ensure alignment to strategy, budget, and roadmap, validating that delivery supports agreed priorities and value realization.
• Close projects with discipline, including transition to operations, knowledge transfer, post-launch support planning, and lessons learned.

Skills

Project management

Agile/Scrum

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Asana

Monday.com

Job description

Tech Holding in the UK is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to deliver complex technology programmes on a contract basis. You will stand up projects end-to-end, define scope, governance, and milestones, and coordinate across business, technology, vendors and operations.

The ideal candidate has 5–6 years of hands-on project management experience, deep Agile/Scrum expertise, and strong communication skills to engage technical and non‑technical audiences.