Senior Project Manager

Who are we?

Telana are experts in applied innovation, focused on delivering business outcomes through AI, data, software development, and cloud engineering expertise. Formed by the combination of Ancoris and Sundown Solutions, together we leverage our problem solving skills and end-to-end capabilities to help you create better digital experiences for your customers and employees.

As a top-tier partner of Google Cloud and Microsoft, the market leaders for AI, Data, and Cloud, we partner with some of the world’s biggest brands and government organisations to attract new customers, drive efficiency, improve experiences, and identify future opportunities for growth. We have received impressive external recognition for its innovative offerings, best-in-class capabilities, and tangible impact for customers across various industries. Ancoris was recognized as a Leader for Data, Analytics, and Machine Learning in the ISG Provider™ Lens for Google Cloud Partner Ecosystem in 2024, and a Rising Star in 2022 and 2023. Sundown is accredited as an Azure Expert MSP provider. Ancoris was also awarded Google Cloud’s 2024 EMEA Public Sector Partner of the Year award. 

What will your role be?

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for driving the successful, strategic delivery of complex, cross-functional engineering programs. 

What will you be doing?

• Own the Technical Roadmap: Provide strategic leadership and technical oversight to define and execute the long-term delivery roadmap for one or more critical project areas or programs, ensuring alignment with overarching business strategy.
• Drive End-to-End Delivery: Guide complex, multi-team initiatives from concept and architectural design through build, testing, final approval, and release, effectively managing scope, dependencies, quality, and quantifiable business outcomes.
• Cross-Organisational Alignment: Proactively identify and manage critical delivery dependencies and drive strategic alignment across engineering and other business units to ensure cohesive execution of large programs.
• Define and Govern Agile Practices: Define, implement, and champion Agile and Scrum best practices (including flow, estimation, and capacity planning) across multiple engineering teams.
• Metrics & Reporting: Maintain, track, and transparently report on project health using key metrics (e.g., velocity, capacity utilisation, burndown, and task breakdown) to provide accurate forecasts and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Impediment Removal: Act as the primary escalation point, quickly facilitating the resolution of issues and impediments that block progress across teams.
• Agile Mentorship: Lead and coach in Agile techniques and delivery excellence.
• Ceremony Ownership: Lead all Agile ceremonies (planning, reviews, retrospectives, stand-ups).
• Program Risk Ownership: Identify, assess, and mitigate technical and business risks, developing robust contingency plans for mission-critical initiatives and communicating risk status to executive leadership.
• Define Release Strategy: Define and govern the release management strategy, coordinating major releases, managing deployment schedules, and ensuring environment readiness and stability.

This may be you:

• Proven experience working in the technology services industry.
• Experience working in complex enterprise environments utilising Microsoft, Google, or comparable technology stacks, managing technical programs or serving in a senior/lead capacity.
• Proven expertise in program management and successfully delivering large-scale, multi-year initiatives with interconnected dependencies.
• Expert-level understanding of diverse software development methodologies, including Scaled Agile Frameworks, Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall project models.
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or relevant experience.
• Experience with advanced reporting for key stakeholders, workflow management, and defining organisational standards.

There are many roads leading up to being a Senior Project Manager. Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Have an untraditional background? Our team is already a mix of self-taught and formally educated people. Don’t self-select out!

What we offer you:

• You will be a part of a skilled, inspiring, and supportive team, and work in an environment that encourages long term personal growth.
• Flexible, and trust-based work environment with a healthy work life balance.
• Our people come first. That’s why you’ll have access to private medical insurance, employee assistance programmes, group life assurance, income protection and access to a market leading benefits platform.
• Learning & development. We will support you in your growth journey and cover the costs of your role-based certifications.
• We have first hand experience that diversity encourages creativity and innovation and makes us better placed to understand a wider range of customers' needs. This means that whatever your background, you won’t find a more welcoming place to work.
• We have family friendly policies and encourage a work-life balance, including flexible working options in roles which permit it.