Senior Technical Programme Manager

Own the integrated roadmap across 2-4 domains within your Focus Area, ensuring alignment with business strategy and UC Platform delivery

Balance and prioritise competing demands: UC Platform go-live, legacy system transitions, in-year revenue commitments, tech debt reduction, and simplification initiatives

Develop and maintain visibility across all transformation workstreams, providing clear line-of-sight from strategy to execution

Build business cases for major initiatives, securing capital funding and resource allocation in partnership with senior leadership

Identify and manage dependencies across domains, proactively resolving conflicts and removing blockers

Drive quarterly planning and alignment across your Focus Area, ensuring domain roadmaps are coherent and achievable

Lead the transition from legacy/existing systems to the Unified Content Platform within your Focus Area

Manage the complexity of running parallel systems during transition periods while maintaining operational stability

Ensure in-year revenue targets are protected during transformation activities

Drive simplification initiatives that reduce technical complexity and operational overhead

Coordinate cutover planning, data migration, and go-live activities across multiple domains

Serve as the primary integration point across domains within your Focus Area, ensuring coherent delivery

Facilitate cross-domain dependency management, working with peer Senior TPMs in other Focus Areas

Lead governance forums and steering committees at the Focus Area level

Manage escalations and drive resolution of issues that span multiple domains

Ensure consistent delivery practices and standards across your Focus Area

Partner with Domain Leads, Product Directors, and Engineering Heads to align on priorities and delivery approach

Provide regular updates to senior leadership on programme health, risks, and strategic decisions required

Build trusted relationships with business stakeholders, translating technical complexity into business impact

Represent the Focus Area in portfolio-level discussions and planning sessions

Influence and negotiate across organizational boundaries to achieve programme outcomes

Mentor and coach TPMs and Project Managers working within your Focus Area

Build programme management capability and maturity across the domains you support

Champion best practices in delivery methodology, tooling, and governance

Contribute to the strategic direction of the PMO function

10+ years of experience in technical programme management, with at least 4 years leading programmes spanning multiple teams or departments

Proven track record of delivering complex transformation programmes involving system transitions, platform migrations, or large-scale technology change

Experience balancing multiple competing priorities (e.g., new platform delivery vs. keeping existing systems running vs. revenue protection)

Strong commercial awareness with experience managing programmes with significant revenue or cost implications

Demonstrated ability to operate with autonomy, exercising independent judgement on matters of strategic importance

Excellence in senior stakeholder management, with experience influencing at Director/VP level

Experience in software development environments with strong understanding of agile, lean, and hybrid delivery methodologies

Outstanding communication skills - able to translate complex technical concepts for business audiences and vice versa

Experience in publishing, media, or content platforms

Background in domain-driven design or capability-based operating models

Experience with large-scale platform consolidation or legacy system decommissioning

Formal programme management qualification (MSP, PgMP, or equivalent)

Experience leading programmes in a matrix organization with distributed teams

UC Platform capabilities within your Focus Area are delivered on time and adopted successfully

Legacy systems are transitioned smoothly with minimal business disruption

In-year revenue targets are achieved while transformation progresses

Dependencies across domains are proactively managed with no surprise escalations

Stakeholders have clear visibility of programme status and confidence in delivery

Domain teams operate with consistent, mature delivery practices

You are recognized as a trusted partner by Domain Leads and senior leadership

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

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.

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