Technical Project Manager Jobs in Austin, TX

TCDRS offers an innovative, strategic and collaborative culture that uses best practice technologies to enable our strategic initiatives, services, security, and business processes. We focus on delivering services in a more digital, efficient, and secure environment. We continue to modernize our systems and processes—not just to keep up with technology, but to better meet the evolving needs of our members and employers.

The Enterprise Technical Project Manager provides leadership and oversight for a portfolio of technology projects that support organizational goals through the development, delivery, and ongoing enhancement of technology products and digital capabilities. Working within a collaborative IT team of approximately 30 professionals and partnering with external consultants, this role ensures technology initiatives are delivered successfully through effective planning, governance, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and resource allocation.

The role leads projects to achieve scope, schedule, quality, and budget objectives while managing dependencies across systems, technologies, vendors, and delivery teams.

Technical Project and Portfolio Delivery

• Deliver enterprise technology projects that support organizational priorities, strategic initiatives and business outcomes that apply Agile and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Manage project risks, dependencies, obstacles and milestones to ensure successful and timely delivery.
• Manage technology projects including digital transformation, customer service improvements, legacy system retirement, system upgrades, software selection and implementation, cybersecurity projects, backlog development, and process modernization.
• Develop and manage executive-level portfolio dashboards and heat maps that provide clear visibility into project health, key milestones, risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and emerging issues requiring leadership attention.

Technology Implementation and Modernization

• Understand and create work breakdown structure and enterprise multi-system parts list to ensure project plans appropriately address application features, integrations, data requirements, technical deliverables, testing activities, and implementation dependencies.
• Develop enterprise technology roadmaps by translating strategic objectives into actionable project plans that balance innovation, value and risk while leading the end-to-end product lifecycle.
• Execute all phases of the project lifecycle, from requirements and planning through development, testing, deployment and implementation.
• Document, track, and own product backlogs, release planning, and feature prioritization.

Project Governance and Quality

• Establish and maintain right-sized delivery frameworks, governance processes, and project delivery standards to support consistent execution, effective documentation and templates.
• Ensure compliance with applicable security, data quality, and enterprise architecture requirements.
• Manage project methodology, documentation, and governance models with continuous improvement of project artifacts, requirements documentation templates, and test scripts.
• Manage quality assurance, user acceptance testing, production readiness reviews, and deployment activities.

Stakeholder Engagement and Communication

• Facilitate strategies based on organizational value and impact. Drive continuous improvement through user feedback, analytics, and performance monitoring.
• Collaborate with business leaders, technology teams, vendors, consultants, and external partners to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Communicate product strategy, risks, dependencies, progress and key decisions to stakeholders and product team.

Leadership and Team Collaboration

• Collaborate with the project management business teams to ensure successful project outcomes with clear roles, responsibilities, and accountability.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
• Work with the product, business teams, and executives to prioritize work and plan resources that ensure effective project execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in technology product management, project delivery, or digital transformation.
• 3+ years of project management experience.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies, governance practices, and product management with a technical aptitude.
• Understand technical deliverables such as stored procedures, database design elements, data quality, integrations, APIs.
• Experience with enterprise technology platforms, managing vendor relationships, project management methodologies, standards, and best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Agile delivery frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and hybrid methodologies.
• Experience in financial services, pension administration, or public sector is a plus.

About TCDRS

TCDRS offers a competitive salary, exceptional health benefits, and a collaborative work environment in Austin, Texas, overlooking Zilker Park. Our hybrid schedule includes three days in the office and two remote days each week. At this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

At TCDRS, we help provide nearly 380,000 Texans with retirement, disability and survivor benefits. TCDRS is one of the best-funded retirement systems in the nation. Although we provide retirement benefits or “pensions” to hard-working Texans, our unique features distinguish us from traditional pension plans and keep us financially strong.

Our culture is grounded in integrity, care and anticipation. We believe in doing the right thing, serving our members and employers with care, and looking ahead to create better solutions for the future.

What To Do Next

If this sounds like you, apply above or submit your resume to jobs@ tcdrs.org. Please refer to Enterprise Technical Project Manager in the subject line of your email.

Pay: $100,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Experience:

• stored procedures, database design, integrations, APIs: 5 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person