: Senior Technical Project Manager – Live Platforms

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced, delivery-focused Senior Technical Project Manager to own the end-to-end development and release cycle for our live production platforms. In this role, you will champion Scrum methodologies, optimize our CI/CD release trains, and ensure high-quality software deployments. You will manage platform stability, track deployment SLAs, and eliminate delivery bottlenecks across front-end and data infrastructure

Key Responsibilities

Sprint Governance & Scrum Leadership

Facilitate all core Scrum ceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.

Enforce Agile and Scrum best practices to maximize team velocity, predictability, and sprint commitment completion.

Act as a buffer and coach for the engineering team, clearing blockers and preventing scope creep during active sprints.

Manage and optimize Jira boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, and velocity tracking metrics.

Release Cycle Management & Orchestration

Own the deployment and release lifecycle for live platform updates across AWS and React front-ends.

Establish and enforce strict release gates, regression testing windows, and rollback procedures.

Coordinate cross-functional release trains involving front-end, backend API, and Snowflake data pipeline teams.

Minimize live platform downtime by scheduling, communicating, and managing off-hours deployment windows.

SLA Compliance & RCA Follow-through





Track production release metrics including deployment success rate, mean time to detect (MTTD), and mean time to resolve (MTTR).

Manage post-release incident triage in Jira to address regressions swiftly within customer SLAs.

Convert RCA action items into prioritized Jira stories for upcoming development sprints to prevent recurrence.

Ensure all technical runbooks and release notes are fully documented in Confluence prior to production deployment.

Stakeholder Communication & Alignment

Serve as the primary point of contact for release readiness, deployment status, and post-launch stability.

Translate complex technical deployment dependencies into transparent project timelines for business stakeholders.

Collaborate with Product Owners to maintain a healthy, ranked, and estimated product backlog.

Required Qualifications

Experience: 9+ years of technical project management experience specifically focused on software development and release lifecycles.

Scrum & Jira Expertise: Expert-level mastery of Scrum frameworks and advanced Jira project administration (workflows, automation, components) is mandatory.

Tech Stack Familiarity: Deep understanding of software delivery pipelines involving AWS cloud infrastructure, Snowflake data warehouses, REST/GraphQL APIs, and React apps.

Certifications: Certified Scrum Master / PMP Preferred

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Project Management, or a related technical field

📌 Technical Project Manager (Hyderabad)
🏢 Straive
📍 Hyderabad