Senior Technical Program Manager

The Role :

The Technical Program Management Group is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to join our engineering team. At Razorpay Sr. TPM role is highly diversified and includes initiating, planning, and executing intermediate to large scale, cross-functional, and company-wide programs. The Sr. TPM will be responsible for the strategies, processes, tools, & techniques to lead engineering product development programs across Razorpay products like payments, platform, RazorpayX, Razorpay Capital, Security and Operations to name a few.

You will also establish and manage the right project management governance practices and frameworks with the engineering team. The ideal candidate will have an excellent balance of people, organizational, and technical skills, and can execute and deliver successfully in a matrix setup / situations where authority is not a given. Influence, collaboration and leadership across functional lines is essential.

Roles and Responsibilities :

Lead program definition, planning, and execution of assigned Program(s), which are made up of multiple projects, ensuring critical success factors are defined and monitored and the business objectives are achieved.

Program definition and scoping, owning the program plan and the deliverables required for the program’s success.

Develop and manage an integrated program schedule and monitoring and reporting on progress

Present Program(s) status on a regular basis to senior executives.

At the heart of this role is delivery. You will be a technical problem solver on the team, identifying innovative solutions to project deadlocks and resolving issues and constraints through consensus and sound judgment.

Be responsible for making project decisions, achieving tactical goals while retaining a strategic focus.

Prioritize projects, leveraging data to drive decisions.

Establish excellent working relations with all internal and external partners with an emphasis on removing roadblocks for program success.

Mandatory Qualifications :

5-8 years of experience in technical project / program management role, preferably in related industry

A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Engineering, or a related field

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly

Possess in-depth technical understanding of agile software development lifecycle

Extensive experience defining programs and implementing them across a team focused on delivering outcomes that meet rapidly evolving customer needs

Strong presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, technical leaders, external partners and developers

A proven ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations

Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

Ability to interact with diverse technical and non-technical groups, spanning all organizational levels

Knowledge of project management elements, life-cycles, tools, and reporting.

Ability to traverse both vertically and horizontally in a large organization.

Practical and advanced understanding of managing the lifecycle of large-scale programs and projects

Championing best practices for program management.

Ability to crisply communicate with multiple leadership levels.