Technical Project Manager

TEKsystems is a leading provider of business and technology services, helping clients activate ideas and solutions. They are seeking a Technical Project Manager to support their Systems Engineering team by driving sprint planning, managing Jira backlogs, and ensuring delivery visibility and reporting for the team.

Responsibilities:

• Drive sprint planning, daily standups, and sprint hygiene across all three teams
• Ensure sprint commitments are realistic, well-defined, and visible
• Hold teams accountable to the work they commit to within the sprint
• Actively manage and work with the team to clean up Jira backlogs (editing tickets, fields, structure)
• Help standardize how epics, tasks, and issues are written and organized
• Coach engineers to own their work in Jira, stepping in directly when needed
• Ensure issues entering a sprint meet basic quality standards (clear scope, ownership, intent)
• Ensure the work being reported to leadership through Jira dashboards meets the needs of leadership
• Ensure work is tracked accurately so delivery can be reported with confidence
• Partner with leadership to reduce time spent 'in the sprint view' and improve high-level visibility
• Work with engineers who have varying levels of comfort managing work in Jira
• Be firm but fair: supportive of engineers, while setting clear expectations
• Escalate delivery risks and missed commitments to leadership when appropriate
• Improve how epics and tasks are written, scoped, and accepted
• Help teams better understand how much work to bring into a sprint
• Introduce lightweight effort tracking (initially hours-based) to reduce overcommitting
• Help define what 'successful' sprints look like, with a focus on completing the most important work
• Translate team roadmaps into sprint-ready work in partnership with leads
• Gradually influence sprint priorities based on roadmap alignment and capacity

Requirements:

• Experience working with Jira
• Ability to drive sprint planning and daily standups
• Experience managing Jira backlogs
• Ability to coach engineers on Jira usage
• Experience in ensuring quality standards for issues entering a sprint
• Ability to report delivery visibility to leadership
• Experience in tracking work accurately
• Ability to work with engineers of varying comfort levels in managing work in Jira
• Ability to escalate delivery risks and missed commitments
• Intermediate level of experience
• Ability to work remotely during EST hours