Technical Program Manager (contract)

• Location: Dublin 4
• Contract: 6 months initially with view to extension
• Work Model: Hybrid
• Hourly rate: 45.19 EUR (approx. 94K per annum)

• As a Technical Program Manager, you will independently lead the full lifecycle of complex, multi-phase programs that extend across teams and functions.
• You will drive program strategy, execution, and continuous improvement while enabling teams to deliver high quality business outcomes.
• Your work includes designing program structures, orchestrating stakeholder alignment, managing technical escalations, and ensuring operational excellence.
• You excel in navigating ambiguity, applying judgment, and balancing short term needs with long term strategic goals.
• Your ability to foster trusted cross-functional relationships is key to program success.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Independently craft program charters that define scope, timelines, OKRs, resources, risks, and dependencies for advanced programs.
• Build detailed project plans that break work into actionable phases, highlight constraints, and ensure clear visibility and alignment across teams.

• Establish strong, trusted relationships with cross-functional partners to support informed decision making and effective collaboration.
• Optimize team roles, responsibilities, and engagement models for efficient program execution.
• Manage program escalations and facilitate resolution in partnership with key stakeholders.

• Assess, prioritize, and triage technical issues across engineering and operational teams.
• Where applicable, address and resolve tooling or process challenges that support engineering workflows.
• Evaluate the impact of technical escalations and guide mitigation planning.

• Develop and deliver predictable, stakeholder targeted communication plans and reporting cadences.
• Represent program progress, risks, and decisions across a variety of forums, audiences, and leadership levels.

• Lead change management initiatives identified by program stakeholders, including developing rollout plans and conducting impact analyses.
• Track implementation progress and resolve alignment gaps throughout the rollout lifecycle.

• Define required program data and metrics; independently collect, maintain, and report on them.
• Own program trackers, dashboards, and status reports to ensure transparency and accountability.
• Establish governance structures that guide risk mitigation, escalations, and continuous improvement.
• Drive effective program meetings rooted in clear purpose, action orientation, and inclusion.

• Determine program phasing, health indicators, and improvement metrics-including resource stewardship-in close partnership with stakeholders.
• Set and evaluate regular checkpoints to measure progress and inform program pivots with transparent decision making rationale.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

• Team Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Communications Management
• Planning
• Managing Organizational Change
• Portfolio Management

• Technical Judgment (TPM)
• Execution & Governance
• Continuous Improvement

Adecco is an equal opportunity employer.

Adecco Ireland is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.