Senior Project Manager

Role Description:

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to coordinate the end-to-end software delivery process across Product, Development, QA, DevOps, Delivery and external stakeholders. The role focuses on translating roadmap priorities into predictable execution by ensuring proper planning, dependency management, risk mitigation and release coordination.

Responsibility:

• Manage initiatives from planning through production release, including Epics, milestones, timelines, dependencies and risks.
• Align roadmap priorities with team capacity and delivery commitments.
• Drive backlog refinement and sprint planning, ensuring work is prioritized, estimated and ready for development.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams, products, versions, integrations and configurations.
• Build and maintain release plans and ensure continuous release readiness.
• Monitor delivery progress, identify blockers and provide clear status reporting.
• Coordinate Development, QA and DevOps throughout execution and release preparation.
• Manage WBS allocation, team capacity and resource conflicts.
• Track project budgets, actuals vs. plan, forecasts and cost-related risks.
• Maintain visibility of schedule, technical, delivery, dependency and budget risks, escalating critical issues early.

Operating Cadence:
Daily: Stand-ups, progress tracking and blocker resolution.
Weekly: Backlog refinement, cross-team synchronization, release readiness, capacity and risk reviews.
Bi-weekly: Sprint planning, Epic review and priority alignment.
Per release: Scope validation, release readiness, version consistency and stakeholder coordination.
Monthly: Budget review, variance analysis and cost forecasting.

Technical Skills Required:

• Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile delivery practices (Scrum, Kanban).
• Experience in release planning, version management and software deployment coordination.
• Ability to manage cross-team and cross-product dependencies across Development, QA, DevOps, Delivery and external stakeholders.
• Good understanding of software testing, release readiness, database and integration changes, and related technical risks.
• Experience in backlog governance, capacity planning, WBS management, budget tracking and delivery reporting.
• Strong communication skills and ability to bridge business and engineering teams.
• Experience working in complex enterprise software environmenClarity and PowerBI.
• Familiarity with budgeting and financial forecasting.
• PMP or Agile certifications preferred.

Client:

A global leader with a sharp focus on lottery solutions. A confident step forward building on a long history of delivering safe and secure technology, demonstrating strong commitment to customers as a dedicated lottery service provider. Leveraging collective insight, experience, and expertise to create reliable and engaging solutions that help lottery clients achieve objectives, meet player needs, and deliver meaningful benefits to communities.