Technical Project Manager

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Full Time

Skills

IT Project Management
Microsoft Azure
Agile
API Management
Databricks
Stakeholder Management

Job Details

Technical Project Manager

Location: Cincinnati Ohio (day 1 onsite)

FTE

Job Description

Role Summary

We re seeking a handson Technical Project Manager to lead cloud modernization and AI assistant programs across Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Copilot Studio. Right associate will own delivery endtoend clarifying business outcomes, guiding architecture, governing security and cost, and launching custom copilots that materially improve developer and business productivity.

Key Responsibilities

  • Leadership: Define scope, roadmaps, budgets, and governance; run Agile/Scaled Agile ceremonies.
  • Architecture & Delivery Oversight: Lead discovery and solution design across Azure landing zones, network/security, data, app modernization, and automation; review HLD/LLD and operational runbooks.
  • Azure Platform Execution: Guide teams implementing AKS, App Service, Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Event Hub/Service Bus, Storage/ADLS Gen2, Data Factory / Databricks / Synapse, Key Vault, Monitor/ enforce Azure WellArchitected principles.
  • Cost & Reliability : Track usage/cost, rightsizing, reservations; error budgets, capacity planning; incident/problem/change management.
  • Copilot Studio Leadership: Translate business use cases into copilots; design topics/flows, prompts, actions/plugins; ground responses securely (Graph, SharePoint, Dataverse); integrate with Teams and LOB systems via connectors; establish telemetry, evaluation, and lifecycle management; drive Responsible AI guardrails and rollout/adoption.
  • Stakeholder & Vendor Management: Align product owners, architects, security, data, and operations; report to executive sponsors with clear metrics and insights.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 8 12+ years in technical project management owning cloud programs (preferably Azure) and crossfunctional engineering teams.
  • Handson experience with Azure services ( 3 of: AKS, Functions, App Service, ADF/Databricks/Synapse, Postgress SQL, Event Hub/Service Bus, Key Vault, Monitor/Log Analytics).
  • Practical exposure to Microsoft Copilot Studio or Power Platform (Power Apps/Automate), designing and shipping copilots/bots integrated with enterprise systems.
  • Agile/Scaled Agile leadership, excellent stakeholder management and communication.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Certifications: AZ305 (Solutions Architect Expert) or equivalent.
  • Experience with Azure OpenAI Service, prompt design/evaluation, and Responsible AI policies.
  • Experience modernizing monoliths to microservices, eventdriven architectures, and data platforms on Azure.
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