Senior Technical Program Manager

This contract opportunity is ideal for a technically experienced professional who excels at coordinating complex engineering initiatives and improving delivery processes. You will support engineering leadership by overseeing work across central services, DevOps, and data teams in a real-money gaming environment. Your mission will be to bring clarity, structure, and accountability to engineering operations while ensuring priorities and releases remain aligned. You will combine software engineering expertise with program management, automation, and data-driven reporting to improve how teams collaborate. You will also lead a small team of contract engineers and help establish scalable workflows. By leveraging APIs, dashboards, and AI-powered tools, you will reduce manual coordination and increase visibility across the engineering landscape.

You should bring a strong technical foundation, practical delivery leadership experience, and a proactive approach to automation. The ideal candidate can engage with engineers as a technical peer while keeping projects organized, stakeholders informed, and teams focused on the right priorities.

• Professional software development experience, with a subsequent focus on technical program management or delivery coordination.

• Ability to read code, write scripts, and collaborate effectively with engineering teams; no specific programming language is required.

• Demonstrated ability to automate workflows, call APIs, integrate tools, and build reporting solutions independently.

• Practical experience using AI tools extensively, with sound judgment about their strengths, limitations, and appropriate applications.

• Experience managing delivery or release reporting for a team that ships software regularly.

• Previous experience leading engineers or a small technical team, including setting priorities and supporting team performance.

• Strong prioritization skills and the ability to distinguish genuine urgency from competing demands.

• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to document decisions and communicate progress clearly.

• A calm, dependable leadership style that encourages early communication and proactive problem-solving.

• Experience with live-service products, real-money gaming, or regulated products.

• Familiarity with mobile release management, including Apple App Store and Google Play processes.

• Experience administering Jira or Confluence.

• Knowledge of incident response and on-call practices.

• Experience with AWS or another cloud platform.