Sr. Technical Program Manager

The role

The Senior Technical Project Manager leads the planning and delivery of large, complex technical programs across the global People Technology platform. This individual contributor serves as a hands-on Scrum Master for the team's two-week sprint cadence.

What you will do

• Serve as hands-on Scrum Master for the People Technology Services Team
• Lead two-week sprint cadence including planning, stand-ups, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives
• Improve Agile operating rhythm, working agreements, and sprint governance
• Partner with Product Leads, Managers, and Technical Leads to align priorities and capacity
• Lead technical programs from discovery through deployment and closure
• Establish program outcomes, roadmaps, milestones, and governance
• Maintain integrated schedules, RAID logs, and dependency maps
• Orchestrate delivery across Product, Integrations, Data, Security, and other teams
• Translate strategic priorities into realistic program and sprint plans
• Provide executive updates and data-backed recommendations using Jira and program metrics

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of technical project or program management experience leading complex software, platform, integration, or infrastructure initiatives
• Extensive experience as a hands-on Scrum Master for technical teams in recurring sprints
• Deep knowledge of Agile and Scrum
• Proven ability to lead large, complex, multi-workstream programs
• Advanced planning tool (i.e. Jira) experience
• Demonstrated use of delivery data and sprint or program metrics
• Strong technical literacy across the software development lifecycle, enterprise platforms, cloud services, and release practices
• Executive-level stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills

Nice to have

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Project Management Professional (PMP), or comparable c
• Experience within People Technology or HR Technology, including Workday or comparable enterprise platforms
• Experience with Jira reporting extensions or visualization tools such as eazyBI, Power BI, Tableau, or comparable platforms
• Demonstrated success mentoring others, resolving conflict, and influencing outcomes without direct authority in global, matrixed environments
• Experience coordinating globally distributed teams, strategic vendors, or enterprise programs

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Matching 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Wellness program
• Employee discounts for Sony products
• Possible bonus package

Before you apply

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage

About the company

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand and a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. It is a dynamic technology company and entertainment leader.