Senior Technical Project Manager
Genève,
Suisse
Our client is a fast-growing tech company based in Geneva, operating at the intersection of data management, compliance, and enterprise software. With an international client base and a highly technical product, the company works with organisations that require the highest standards of reliability, security, and delivery excellence. You will join a tight-knit expert team and work directly alongside the COO and CEO.
The role
As Senior Technical Project Manager, you will own the end-to-end delivery of complex integration and infrastructure projects — acting as the critical bridge between technical teams, clients, and business stakeholders. This is a high-ownership role for someone who leads with authority, challenges solution design, and keeps complex programmes on track from kickoff to go-live.
Key responsibilities
- Build realistic project plans and lead delivery end-to-end — on time and within budget
- Track progress, performance, and efficiency of team members; report status to stakeholders
- Perform risk management analysis to identify, assess, and mitigate project risks
- Collaborate with Technical Business Analysts, engineers, architects, and project stakeholders
- Manage vendor and supplier contracts; assign tasks and communicate expected deliverables
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation — architecture docs, release notes, deployment guides, user manuals
- Formalise and enforce operational processes for production reliability and high availability
- Prepare and lead technical sessions; manage budget tracking, planning, and reporting
- Challenge solution design elements and ensure technical coherence across the platform
- Control deliverable quality — API testing (Postman), code review, log analysis
- Write SRS documents, use cases, and test cases for new or modified applications
- Provide post-implementation support and maintain strong long-term customer relationships
Profile & requirements
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Business, MIS, or related field
- 5+ years in a Technical PM or Solution Delivery role, ideally in an international or private banking environment
- Strong familiarity with project management methodologies and best practices
- Solid understanding of business cases and risk management
- Able to write and challenge architecture docs and technical documentation
- Extremely organised, structured, and outcome-focused
- Team leader, supervisor, and collaborator — all at once
- High learning agility — fast to absorb new technologies and domain knowledge
- Strong communication and influencing skills — verbal and written
- PMP or equivalent is a plus
- Fluent English mandatory; French is a plus
Technical stack & skills
- APIs & protocols — REST, HTTP/HTTPS, OAuth2/OIDC (client credentials flow, bearer tokens, scopes), JSON, XML, curl
- Databases — MongoDB and SQL Server (core); MySQL and Oracle (integration); connection strings, SSL/TLS, least-privilege accounts
- Security — IAM concepts, access control, least-privilege principles, basic secrets management
- Networking — DNS, FQDNs, firewall rules, standard ports, reverse proxy and load-balancer concepts
- Quality & tooling — Postman, JIRA, Confluence, Git; ability to read service logs, run API checks, interpret performance metrics (latency, p95, throughput)
- Documentation — Architecture docs, SRS, use cases, test cases, deployment and release documentation
Strong plus: Shell and Python scripting, SOAPUI, Fiddler
Company tech environment — exposure expected, not mastery required
- Cloud & infrastructure — Multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and virtualised environments (VMware); multi-tenant and high-availability architectures
- Secrets management — HashiCorp Vault, Thales KMS
- DevOps — CI/CD pipelines, infra-as-code practices, disaster recovery processes
- Integration patterns — HTTP proxy, JDBC/ODBC/ADO/NoSQL driver flows, message and field-level transformations in transit and at rest
- Observability — Health endpoints, service log analysis, throughput and reliability monitoring