Technical Project Manager / Lead

Technical Project Manager / Lead

Experience
8 to 12 years in Software Delivery, with strong hands-on engineering depth and 3+ years leading a
squad. Comfortable being both a delivery owner and a working technical lead.
Role summary
Technical Lead who can own one module (or a tightly related module cluster) end to end, from SME
clarification and user stories through development, review and module acceptance. This is a hybrid
role: it runs the sprint and owns the backlog like a PM, and sets technical direction and reviews code
like a lead. The lead is the human accountable for the quality and correctness of everything the
squad and its AI agents produce.
Key responsibilities
• Own the module backlog: run SME clarification workshops, convert a near-final requirements
document into clear testable user stories and acceptance criteria in Confluence, and keep that specification
under change control as the build contract.
• Plan and run sprints for the squad (typically senior and mid engineers plus QA): estimation,
sprint planning, demos, and unblocking.
• Set the module's technical approach within the architect's cross-module contracts: service
design, data model, API and event contracts, test strategy.
• Direct and review AI-generated code: ensure agents work to the agreed specs, and
personally gate AI output that touches finance, access control or the audit trail before it merges.
• Own code review standards, branch and version-control discipline, and the definition of
done for the module.
• Drive module-level quality: unit and integration coverage, security-by-design, performance,
and readiness for VAPT and UAT.
• Coordinate cross-module dependencies with other leads and the architects.
• Report progress, risks and scope-change requests for the module, supporting the program's
court-reporting cadence.
Must-have skills
• Hands-on Java and Spring Boot, with the ability to design, review and debug microservices,
not just manage them.
• Solid React and TypeScript understanding to guide full-stack delivery.
• Working command of PostgreSQL and Kafka in an event-driven design.
• Agile delivery leadership: backlog ownership, story writing, estimation, sprint facilitation.
• Strong requirements and stakeholder skills: able to run SME sessions and turn ambiguity
into a frozen, testable spec.
• A rigorous code-review habit and the judgement to hold a quality line on AI-generated code.
Mode of Work - Onsite
Location - Trivandrum
Candidates from Kerala preferred.