Engineering Project Manager

Tata Consultancy Services; Parsippany-Troy Hills (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual Incentive

Comprehensive Medical Coverage

401K Plan

Certification & Training Reimbursement

Vacation & Holidays

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Parsippany, NJ is seeking a Project Manager to lead cross-functional teams across operations, logistics, maintenance, and IT. You will oversee agile ceremonies, define scope with Product Managers, review architectures, and drive strategic delivery from initiation to go‑live and stabilization.

The role requires strong leadership, risk management, and the ability to deliver complex software projects with a focus on performance and resilience.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Agile ceremonies and cross-functional teams.
• Strong ability to break down complex requirements into deliverables.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and risk management.
• Proven track record delivering software projects on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Develop working knowledge of fleet management tools and operational systems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across operations, logistics, maintenance, and IT to prioritise and deliver business-critical features.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership, including code reviews, architectural guidance, and setting engineering standards.
• Lead Agile ceremonies, guide sprint planning, and manage delivery across the team.
• Break down complex requirements into clear, incremental deliverables.
• Drive continuous improvement in system performance, observability, and resilience.
• Design and build internal tooling for users including branch agents, vehicle technicians, dispatch teams, and service managers.
• Guide architectural decisions for backend services and internal frontends.
• Mentor engineers, conduct regular 1:1s, and support professional development.
• Support incident response and root cause analysis.
• Partner with Product Managers to define scope, timelines, and deliverables.
• Work with Solution Architects to design and implement technical solutions.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks across the software development lifecycle.
• Implement and harness AI-powered solutions and delivery; measure and evidence the benefits of AI delivery to Senior Management.
• Own full accountability for project delivery across scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk - from project initiation through delivery, go‑live, and stabilization; the project's success or failure is this role's responsibility.
• Define the project roadmap and integrated delivery plan at the outset - break the project into logical phases or waves, identify the critical path, map all workstream dependencies, and establish milestones that stakeholders can hold the team to.
• Establish and operate project governance from day one - steering committee cadence, RAID log, change control board, decision log, and status reporting framework; governance must be operational before delivery teams begin work, not retrofitted after problems appear
• Manage vendor and partner delivery organizations - own the SOW and contractual obligations, run regular governance reviews, enforce SLA commitments, elevate vendor performance issues through the right channels, and document all delivery decisions
• Drive cross-functional workstream alignment - chair dependency resolution sessions, maintain the integrated dependency log, assign ownership to every cross-team dependency, and track resolution to closure before it becomes a blocker
• Own project financial management - track T&M actuals and forecast weekly, manage change requests through formal scope change process with full impact assessment on budget, schedule, and risk, and present financial health to SLT with transparency
• Facilitate and own Agile project ceremonies where applicable - PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect and Adapt workshops - ensuring all teams have clear objectives, dependencies mapped, and capacity planned for each increment
• Proactively manage the RAID log - identify risks before they become issues, assign owners, review mitigation progress weekly, and elevate items that exceed the project's risk tolerance with clear options and a recommended course of action
• Lead change management activities - assess the organizational impact of the project, build a stakeholder communication plan, ensure business readiness activities (training, process change, cutover preparation) are tracked as project deliverables not afterthoughts
• Be the single accountable point of contact for project health - provide weekly written status reports and participate in steering committee meetings with an honest, metric‑backed view of progress, risks, and decisions needed; never present a rosier picture than reality supports

Skills

Project Management

Job description

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop working knowledge of fleet management tools and operational systems
• Collaborate with stakeholders across operations, logistics, maintenance, and IT to prioritise and deliver business-critical features
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership, including code reviews, architectural guidance, and setting engineering standards
• Lead Agile ceremonies, guide sprint planning, and manage delivery across the team
• Break down complex requirements into clear, incremental deliverables
• Drive continuous improvement in system performance, observability, and resilience
• Design and build internal tooling for users including branch agents, vehicle technicians, dispatch teams, and service managers
• Guide architectural decisions for backend services and internal frontends
• Mentor engineers, conduct regular 1:1s, and support professional development
• Support incident response and root cause analysis
• Partner with Product Managers to define scope, timelines, and deliverables
• Work with Solution Architects to design and implement technical solutions
• Identify and mitigate technical risks across the software development lifecycle
• Implement and harness AI-powered solutions and delivery; measure and evidence the benefits of AI delivery to Senior Management
• Own full accountability for project delivery across scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk - from project initiation through delivery, go‑live, and stabilization; the project's success or failure is this role's responsibility
• Define the project roadmap and integrated delivery plan at the outset - break the project into logical phases or waves, identify the critical path, map all workstream dependencies, and establish milestones that stakeholders can hold the team to
• Establish and operate project governance from day one - steering committee cadence, RAID log, change control board, decision log, and status reporting framework; governance must be operational before delivery teams begin work, not retrofitted after problems appear
• Manage vendor and partner delivery organizations - own the SOW and contractual obligations, run regular governance reviews, enforce SLA commitments, elevate vendor performance issues through the right channels, and document all delivery decisions
• Drive cross-functional workstream alignment - chair dependency resolution sessions, maintain the integrated dependency log, assign ownership to every cross-team dependency, and track resolution to closure before it becomes a blocker
• Own project financial management - track T&M actuals and forecast weekly, manage change requests through formal scope change process with full impact assessment on budget, schedule, and risk, and present financial health to SLT with transparency
• Facilitate and own Agile project ceremonies where applicable - PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect and Adapt workshops - ensuring all teams have clear objectives, dependencies mapped, and capacity planned for each increment
• Proactively manage the RAID log - identify risks before they become issues, assign owners, review mitigation progress weekly, and elevate items that exceed the project's risk tolerance with clear options and a recommended course of action
• Lead change management activities - assess the organizational impact of the project, build a stakeholder communication plan, ensure business readiness activities (training, process change, cutover preparation) are tracked as project deliverables not afterthoughts
• Be the single accountable point of contact for project health - provide weekly written status reports and participate in steering committee meetings with an honest, metric‑backed view of progress, risks, and decisions needed; never present a rosier picture than reality supports

Salary Range-$120,000-$160,000 a year

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TCS Employee Benefits Summary

Discretionary Annual Incentive.

Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.

Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.

Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.

Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.

Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.

Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

Location

Parsippany, NJ

Function

TECHNOLOGY

Role

Project Manager

ID

436671

Skills

Project Management

Salary Range

$120,000 - $160,000