Senior Technical Project Manager

National Retail Solutions (NRS) is a leading provider of point-of-sale, payment, and digital solutions to tens of thousands of independent retailers across the United States and Canada. Processing millions of transactions daily across a rapidly growing network of high-volume retail terminals, NRS generates massive volumes of operational data.

To empower our retailers and internal teams with instant insights, NRS is building a state-of-the-art, high-throughput Real-Time Reporting Engine powered by ClickHouse. This strategic initiative involves modernizing our data infrastructure, building scalable analytical pipelines, and delivering sub-second reporting dashboards for large-scale transaction datasets.

We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager (Data & Reporting Platform) based in Minsk to join our distributed engineering team. In this role, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of our core ClickHouse real-time reporting platform, coordinating cross-functional efforts across backend engineers (Golang/Node.js/PHP), database architects, data engineers, QA, and frontend developers (Vue.js).

The ideal candidate possesses strong technical project management fundamentals, a solid grasp of data systems/ETL workflows, and naturally leverages AI workflows (Claude, Gemini) to optimize sprint planning, write technical specifications, streamline documentation, and track technical deliverables.

This role requires 3 days a week in-office work at our Minsk office facility to collaborate in person with our engineering team, along with regular remote collaboration with teams in Israel and the U.S.

• Lead end-to-end project execution for our ClickHouse real-time reporting platform, managing schedules, sprint backlogs, dependency mapping, and technical milestones.

• Partner closely with backend developers, data engineers, and UI teams to plan and execute high-throughput data pipelines, data aggregation flows, and reporting API deployments.

• Manage technical risks, identify pipeline bottlenecks, resolve execution blockers, and establish clear criteria for platform stability and performance testing.

• Act as a technical bridge between Product Management, System Architects, and Engineering teams to translate complex reporting requirements into clear user stories and technical tasks.

• Leverage modern AI productivity tools (Claude, Gemini) to accelerate sprint documentation, analyze project risks, summarize technical alignment meetings, and draft comprehensive project specs.

• Establish and maintain KPIs, execution velocity metrics, and project health dashboards in Jira/Confluence.

• Provide weekly progress updates to senior leadership, including the VP of Technology, CTO, and key business stakeholders.

• Oversee SLA requirements, data delivery timelines, and release readiness checklists across global teams.

• Organize and facilitate cross-functional release management, ensuring smooth rollouts with zero downtime for reporting services.

• Oversee data integration initiatives with third-party platforms, external data feeds, and internal microservices.

• Understand partner technical specifications, API structures, data schema expectations, and support escalation paths.

• Lead Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Backlog Grooming, Retrospectives) for distributed engineering groups across time zones.

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Our National Retail Solutions brand provides a sales management system and POS equipment to small and medium-sized businesses. With the help of NRS, business owners can solve a management problem: the product includes integrated advertising, data analysis, and payment processing.

NRS is now expanding into a completely new vertical: restaurant technology.We are building a brand-new Restaurant POS platform, a modern and highly capable system designed specifically for restaurant operations. This is one of the most significant product expansions in NRS history and will open a major new market for the company.This is a real opportunity to help build something new and important.