Sr. Technical Program Manager

Senior Technical Project Manager 

Location: San Diego

Hybrid / Onsite

The Senior Technical Project Manager is responsible for leading the planning and delivery of large, complex, and high-impact technical programs and cross-functional initiatives across SIE’s global People Technology platform.

This role operates as a senior individual contributor within People Technology Services (PTS), owning end-to-end program delivery and serving as the hands-on Scrum Master for the team’s established two-week sprint cadence. The role creates the governance, alignment, and delivery discipline needed to coordinate multiple workstreams, strengthen predictable sprint execution, and ensure strategic priorities translate into clear, executable plans.

Working within a globally consistent Agile product delivery model, the Senior Technical Project Manager partners with Human Resources, Payroll, Product Leads, Managers, Technical Leads, IT, Data, Security, vendors, and other cross-functional teams to align portfolio priorities, capacity, scope, timelines, decisions, and delivery outcomes. The role uses Jira, integrated delivery plans, dashboards, and sprint and program metrics to identify trends, advise leaders on trade-offs, and drive continuous improvement.

This role is suited for individuals who combine deep Agile, Scrum, and technical program management expertise with systems thinking, technical fluency, executive communication, and the ability to lead across teams, mentor others, and influence decisions without direct authority.

Key Responsibilities

Agile & Scrum Leadership

• Serve as the hands-on Scrum Master for the People Technology Services Team, leading a consistent two-week sprint cadence and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews or demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Own and continuously improve the team’s Agile operating rhythm, working agreements, backlog readiness standards, and sprint governance to strengthen focus, transparency, accountability, and predictable delivery.
• Partner with Product Leads, Managers, and Technical Leads to align priorities, capacity, dependencies, and sequencing across project work, operational support, intake demand, and unplanned work before sprint commitments are made.
• Facilitate clear sprint goals and realistic commitments; monitor progress, impediments, scope changes, carryover, and unplanned work, and lead timely resolution or escalation when outcomes are at risk.
• Use retrospective insights and delivery data to identify systemic bottlenecks, ensure improvement actions have accountable owners, and measure whether changes improve flow, quality, and predictability.
• Coach Product Leads, team members, and delivery partners on practical Agile and Scrum practices, reinforcing role clarity and shared accountability while adapting the framework thoughtfully to enterprise needs.

Technical Program Delivery Leadership

• Lead large, complex technical programs and high-impact initiatives from discovery and business case through planning, execution, testing, deployment, stabilization, transition, and closure.
• Establish program outcomes, scope, success measures, integrated roadmaps, milestones, governance, decision rights, delivery plans, and communication rhythms in partnership with sponsors and stakeholders.
• Maintain integrated schedules, RAID and decision logs, dependency maps, resource plans, and action trackers, surfacing issues early and assigning accountable owners.
• Orchestrate delivery across Product, Integrations, Data, Security, Architecture, Human Resources, Payroll, vendors, and other teams, ensuring workstreams remain aligned to shared outcomes.
• Partner with technical leads to evaluate estimates, sequencing, architecture and integration dependencies, technical risks, and delivery options; drive resolution while respecting technical ownership.

Strategic Planning, Capacity & Dependency Management

• Translate strategic priorities and portfolio commitments into realistic program, release, and sprint plans aligned with capacity, business value, technical sequencing, and operational needs.
• Advise leaders on scope, sequencing, capacity, and trade-offs; establish governance for changes and prevent unplanned demand from destabilizing committed delivery.
• Identify and manage complex cross-program dependencies, resource constraints, sequencing conflicts, and decisions; bring forward clear options, recommendations, and impact assessments.
• Contribute to portfolio planning and governance by assessing initiative health, challenging assumptions, and recommending reprioritization or corrective action when needed.

Delivery Analytics & Executive Communication

• Define and maintain Jira boards, integrated dashboards, and reporting standards that provide a reliable view of sprint execution, program health, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and outcomes.
• Use sprint and program metrics—including sprint goal achievement, committed versus completed work, carryover, throughput, cycle time, blocked work, milestone performance, and trend data—to improve forecasting and delivery decisions.
• Translate complex technical progress, delivery risk, and cross-functional impacts into concise executive updates, decision materials, and data-backed recommendations for senior leaders and governance forums.
• Identify systemic delivery trends and emerging risks across initiatives, leading practical improvements to planning, workflow, governance, and team predictability.

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 operating in recurring sprints and facilitating all core Scrum ceremonies.
• Deep knowledge of Agile and Scrum, including backlog readiness, story decomposition, estimation, capacity planning, sprint goals, impediment management, retrospectives, team coaching, and continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to lead large, complex, multi-workstream programs encompassing scope, roadmaps, schedules, governance, risks, dependencies, decisions, testing, change readiness, and release delivery.
• Advanced planning tool (i.e. Jira) experience, including board and workflow design, sprint administration, queries, dashboards, roadmaps, and program-level reporting.
• Demonstrated use of delivery data and sprint or program metrics to improve forecasting, influence priorities, communicate risk, and drive measurable improvement.
• Strong technical literacy across the software development lifecycle, enterprise platforms, cloud services, and release practices, sufficient to lead technical delivery and understand complex dependencies.
• Executive-level stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical teams, business leaders, and senior decisionmakers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Project Management Professional (PMP), or comparable certification.
• 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 with significant organizational change and cross-functional complexity.

Profile

• Senior delivery leader and hands-on Scrum Master who creates structure, clarity, and momentum across complex initiatives without adding unnecessary process.
• Operates as a senior individual contributor, owning high-impact outcomes while aligning teams to governance, strategy, and broader People Technology priorities.
• Strong systems thinker and facilitator who connects portfolio priorities, sprint execution, technical dependencies, and business outcomes.
• Practical and delivery-oriented, balancing disciplined Agile execution with the judgment and flexibility required in a dynamic enterprise environment.
• Data-informed and skilled at turning Jira and program data into credible forecasts, executive insights, decisions, and improvement actions.
• Technically fluent and able to engage credibly with architects and technical leads, challenge delivery assumptions constructively, and respect technical ownership.
• Trusted advisor to Human Resources and technology leaders, with strong consulting, negotiation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable leading through ambiguity, mentoring others, and influencing beyond immediate responsibilities in a global, evolving operating model.