1. Role Summary
The Senior Business & Technical Project Manager is responsible for managing projects from initiation to completion, acting as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams. The role ensures projects meet business requirements and are delivered on time, within scope, and according to quality standards.
2. Key Responsibilities
- Understand business needs and translate them into clear project requirements, goals, and deliverables.
- Develop and manage project plans, timelines, milestones, and resource requirements.
- Coordinate with Business, Development, QA, Infrastructure, and other technical teams.
- Manage the complete project lifecycle, from planning and execution to deployment and closure.
- Track project progress, dependencies, risks, issues, and action items.
- Facilitate project meetings, stakeholder discussions, and decision-making.
- Coordinate testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), deployment readiness, and business approvals.
- Maintain project documentation, status reports, risk logs, and decision records.
- Manage scope changes, resolve blockers, and **escalate** critical issues.
- Ensure business and technical teams remain aligned throughout project delivery.
- Obtain final approvals, coordinate operational handover, and document lessons learned.
3. Required Qualifications & Experience
- Proven experience managing application development, IT, or digital transformation projects.
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Experience coordinating Business, Development, QA, and cross-functional teams.
- Ability to translate business requirements into actionable technical deliverables.
- Strong project planning, risk management, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive projects independently.
4. Preferred Qualifications
- Project management certification such as PMP or PRINCE2.
- Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, or hybrid project management methodologies.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Azure Boards, or similar project management tools.
- Basic understanding of APIs, system integrations, databases, testing, and deployment.
- Familiarity with C#/.NET, SQL, and application development concepts.