Technical Project Manager
Newfire Global Partners
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Colombia
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About the role
- Own day-to-day delivery planning and execution across multiple engineering teams
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos, and retrospectives
- Maintain clear visibility into scope, timelines, dependencies, and risks
- Provide structured status reporting to internal leadership and client stakeholders
- Proactively identify blockers and coordinate with technical leads to resolve issues quickly
- Ensure alignment between product priorities and engineering execution
- Support release planning and cross-team coordination for phased feature rollouts
- Drive accountability while fostering a collaborative and positive team environment
- As a Senior team member, you will be expected to actively participate in our hiring processes by serving on interview panels for future roles across the company.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in technical project or program management within software development environments
- Proven experience leading cross-functional engineering teams delivering complex web-based platforms
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and release planning
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams (frontend, backend, data, DevOps)
- Experience working closely with senior stakeholders or executive leadership, with the ability to communicate status, risks, and trade-offs clearly and confidently
- Strong ability to identify delivery risks early and drive mitigation plans across teams
- Experience using project tracking and collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including running structured status updates and stakeholder meetings
- Ability to balance process discipline with pragmatism in a fast-moving product environment
- Experience working with distributed or nearshore teams across time zones
- Nice to Haves
- Experience delivering healthcare, data analytics, or HIPAA-compliant platforms
- Familiarity with modern cloud-based architectures (Azure preferred)
- Experience supporting platforms with CI/CD, automated testing, and feature-flag-driven releases
- Background working on customer-facing portals or SaaS products
- PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or similar certification
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AgileScrumproject managementprogram managementweb-based platformsfrontend developmentbackend developmentDevOpsCI/CDautomated testing
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingrisk managementstakeholder managementteam accountabilityprocess disciplinepragmatismstatus reporting
Certifications
PMPPMI-ACPCSM