Senior Technical Project Manager

The role

You will lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of complex technical projects. You will work with engineering leads, software engineers, leadership, and client stakeholders to ensure projects meet objectives.

What you will do

• Lead technical projects from planning through delivery.
• Coordinate engineers, technical leads, and client stakeholders.
• Define project scope, milestones, timelines, and deliverables.
• Track project progress, dependencies, risks, and blockers.
• Manage client expectations and communicate project updates.
• Identify and resolve delivery issues proactively.
• Manage scope changes and ensure alignment on priorities.
• Improve project management processes and delivery practices.
• Support resource planning and coordination across projects.
• Ensure clear documentation, accountability, and follow-through.

Required qualifications

• 7-10 years of experience managing technical projects in software engineering or technology consulting.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and engineering workflows.
• Experience managing project scope, timelines, risks, and dependencies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively with engineers and understand technical trade-offs.
• Experience managing client relationships and expectations.
• Strong organisational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Proactive approach to identifying issues and driving solutions.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities.

Nice to have

• Experience in blockchain, financial infrastructure, or enterprise software
• Familiarity with agile project management tools and methodologies
• Experience working in an engineering consultancy, technical services business, or client-facing software delivery environment.
• Familiarity with agile, iterative, and hybrid project delivery approaches.
• Experience with distributed teams and remote-first working environments.
• Exposure to blockchain, financial infrastructure, distributed systems, developer tooling, or enterprise software.
• Experience with project planning and collaboration tools such as Linear, Jira, Asana, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting resource planning, project forecasting, utilisation tracking, or commercial delivery reporting.
• Experience managing several concurrent client engagements with different technical and commercial requirements.

About the company

Obsidian Systems is a software engineering consultancy that builds production systems for capital markets and other regulated industries. They are a remote-first, globally distributed team.