Senior Project Manager

Job description / Role

Role summary

Lead end-to-end delivery of a DevSecOps mega program on Azure DevOps Server, ensuring integrated planning, governance, financial control, and executive reporting across platform engineering, security, QA automation, performance, and release readiness.

Key responsibilities

• Own program baseline plan, milestones, dependencies, and cutover/handover to support squad.
• Establish governance cadence: SteerCo, weekly executive reporting, RAID, change control, decision logs.
• Control budget burn, forecasting, variance, vendor coordination and contract deliverables.
• Drive release readiness across pipelines, security gates, test gates, and deployment governance.
• Ensure operationalization: runbooks, monitoring readiness, handover plan, and knowledge transfer.

Requirements

Required experience

10–15+ years overall delivery experience; 3–5+ years leading large platform/DevOps programs. Government/regulatory sector experience is a plus. PMP/Prince2 preferred; Agile/SAFe exposure preferred.

Technical skills

Strong understanding of DevSecOps lifecycle, CI/CD concepts, release governance, and evidence-based delivery. Ability to translate tooling outputs into executive KPIs and readiness decisions.

Soft skills

Executive stakeholder management, negotiation, decision facilitation, conflict resolution, and risk leadership. High ownership under pressure with structured communication.

Core skills / tooling

Azure DevOps Server (Boards/Repos/Pipelines concepts) and release readiness governance. Familiarity with JFrog Artifactory, Fortify (SAST/DAST), HashiCorp Vault, Terraform, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Argo CD (GitOps), Ansible, Sigstore, OpenText Service Virtualization, UFT One, UFT Digital Lab, LoadRunner, AppDynamics, BMC, and Azure Monitoring.