Senior Technical Project Manager

Job Description

We're seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to own delivery end-to-end within our domain-based delivery model. This unified role combines project governance with agile facilitation and servant leadership, driving iterative progress across waterfall, agile, and hybrid approaches.

You'll work flexibly across domains in response to project demand, collaborating with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architecture, Engineering, and Business colleagues to deliver defined capabilities within feasibility constraints.

What You'll Be Doing

Strategic Delivery Leadership

• Define project roadmaps, milestones, and success criteria
• Develop business cases and funding requests grounded in defined value
• Manage scope, schedule, and budget; proactively monitor progress and initiate corrective action
• Ensure adherence to best practices and business value tracking

Agile Facilitation & Scrum Practice

• Facilitate agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, demos)
• Coach teams on agile/scrum values and self-organisation
• Track and communicate delivery progress using appropriate metrics
• Champion iterative delivery and continuous improvement

Delivery Ownership

• Lead end-to-end product development and initiative delivery
• Adapt quickly across different domains as project demand shifts
• Lead inceptions for sizeable initiatives and maintain delivery artefacts
• Manage project budgets and escalate risks to cost, time, or quality

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as primary interface across business, technology, and product teams
• Communicate project goals clearly and inspire teams to achieve results
• Unblock conflicting priorities to keep delivery on track
• Facilitate relationships with third-party development teams

RAID Management & Governance

• Identify and manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies
• Collaborate with peers on cross-domain dependencies
• Support programme-level quarterly alignment and resource planning

Team Leadership

• Provide servant leadership through coaching and facilitation
• Build high-performing, collaborative environments
• Facilitate workshops and problem-solving sessions
• Ensure knowledge transfer into domains following successful delivery

Qualifications

What we're looking for:

• Demonstrated experience delivering software initiatives in dynamic agile environments
• Proven track record delivering multiple projects across the full delivery lifecycle
• Strong working knowledge of agile/scrum frameworks and ceremonies
• Experience managing project governance: scope, schedule, budget, RAID, and reporting
• Familiarity with project tracking tools (Jira, Confluence, Kanban boards)
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
• Matrix management experience with ability to coach and lead by example
• Commercial awareness and customer focus
• Analytical and critical thinking with ability to manage risk in complex environments
• Understanding of software development processes and incremental delivery

The following experience is also desirable:

• Formal accreditation (PMP, PRINCE2, CSM, SAFe, AgilePM)
• Experience facilitating large-scale inceptions or discovery phases
• Familiarity with academic publishing or digital content workflows
• Experience with distributed or third-party development teams

Additional Information

You must have the right to work and live in the UK. 

Closing Date: Monday 17th August 2026 

What we offer in return: 

• A competitive salary + bonus
• An excellent work/life balance with a fantastic, flexible working culture
• 25 days annual leave
• 3 additional discretionary days off during the holiday season at the end of the year
• 4 volunteering days annually
• Day off for your birthday
• Company funded single cover private medical insurance  
• Employee assistance programme – offering 24/7 well-being support 
• Share Match – Plan that matches every share purchased with two free shares. 
• Pension scheme 
• Life assurance, plus optical and medical care

If you’re excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don’t fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and make a contribution regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life. 

Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit based factor. 

We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible! Please contact [email protected]