Technical Project Manager – Singapore
Location: Singapore
Employment Type: Contract
Project Duration: 3–4 Months
Experience: 10+ Years
Position Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Project Manager to lead a strategic technology project for a leading financial technology environment in Singapore. The ideal candidate will combine strong project/program management expertise with a solid technical background in Java and/or .NET application development.
The candidate will be responsible for establishing project governance, developing and executing delivery plans, coordinating multiple workstreams, managing stakeholders, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful delivery of high-quality outcomes within agreed timelines.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain effective project/program governance, including processes, reporting structures, and decision-making forums.
- Develop detailed project plans, delivery roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and resource plans.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise application development and digital transformation initiatives.
- Manage multiple workstreams and coordinate cross-functional, technical, and business teams.
- Track project progress, milestones, deliverables, budgets, risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Identify delivery risks proactively and drive mitigation and resolution plans.
- Manage client relationships and provide regular project status updates to senior leadership.
- Facilitate project governance meetings, steering committee meetings, sprint ceremonies, and stakeholder reviews.
- Ensure alignment between business objectives, technical solutions, project scope, and delivery outcomes.
- Work closely with engineering, architecture, QA, product, business, and infrastructure teams.
- Ensure adherence to quality standards, delivery processes, and agreed project timelines.
- Drive effective communication and collaboration across global and geographically distributed teams.
- Support change management, scope management, and prioritization throughout the project lifecycle.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of overall IT experience, with at least 5+ years of experience in Project/Program Management.
- Strong technical background in Java and/or .NET application development.
- Proven experience managing enterprise application development and digital transformation projects.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, application architecture, and technology delivery.
- Hands-on experience with Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.
- Strong expertise in project planning, execution, delivery management, and governance.
- Proven experience in stakeholder management, risk management, issue resolution, and dependency management.
- Experience managing cross-functional teams and multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Strong client-facing and executive communication skills.
- Experience working with global teams and senior leadership stakeholders.
- Strong leadership, problem-solving, negotiation, and decision-making abilities.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, delivery-focused environment.