Technical Project Manager

Role overview

Technical Project Manager at Kumaran Systems

The role combines strong technical understanding, project management, and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Manage scope, schedule, dependencies, risks, issues, and technical deliverables.
• Drive Agile/Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Ensure requirements, architecture, development, testing, and deployment remain aligned.
• Coordinate technical design and architecture reviews with the Technical Lead.
• Drive requirements traceability and documentation throughout the SDLC.
• Support adoption of Spec-Driven Development (SDD) and Git-based development practices.
• Track technical risks, dependencies, assumptions, and architectural decisions.
• Ensure adherence to engineering, security, quality, and delivery standards.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Knowledge of Spec-Driven Development / GitHub Spec Kit is an advantage.
• Experience in architecture-led or modernization projects is preferred.

Employment details

• Location: Chennai [Tamil Nadu] [India]

Application details

• Understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, and DevOps practices.

Additional role details

• A Technical Project Manager (TPM) leads the end-to-end delivery of complex software projects, acting as the bridge between business, architecture, and engineering teams.
• Role & Responsibilities Lead end-to-end delivery of technically complex software projects.
• Translate business requirements into actionable features, user stories, specifications, and delivery plans.
• Coordinate architects, technical leads, developers, QA, DevOps, business analysts, and other stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain project plans, milestones, release plans, and delivery status.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, production readiness, releases, and post-release activities.
• Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and decisions to management and stakeholders.
• Facilitate resolution of cross-team technical and delivery issues.
• Technical Skills Strong understanding of Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, React.js, TypeScript, SQL, and microservices.
• Good understanding of software architecture and distributed systems.
• Understanding of API-first and event-driven architectures.
• Understanding of cloud, containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and CI/CD.
• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum and SDLC processes.
• Experience with Git/GitHub and modern development practices.
• Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to review architecture and technical designs and communicate technical issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience 10+ years of overall IT/software engineering experience. 5+ years in technical project/program management or technical delivery management.
• Experience managing enterprise application development projects involving multiple technical teams.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum teams.
• Experience managing distributed or cross-functional development teams.
• Experience with end-to-end SDLC from requirements through production deployment.
• Experience working with enterprise clients and senior stakeholders.