Role Summary
Oxford Dynamics seeks a Senior Technical Project Manager to own end to end delivery of AI driven software programmes, coordinating multi team execution from scope and planning through production launch with clear SLAs, budgets, and timelines. The role bridges cutting edge AI research and practical deployment, ensuring agentic/LLM features ship safely, on time, and to quality in regulated environments where security and compliance matter.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead multi project roadmaps managing scope, budgets, risks, RAID, milestones, and change control to deliver on time and within cost.
- Run Agile ceremonies (Scrum/Kanban), track burn up/burn down, and drive decisions with clear acceptance criteria and measurable outcomes for each increment.
- Produce crisp client and leadership reporting, acting as the single point of contact to unblock issues across internal teams, suppliers, and stakeholders.
- Orchestrate delivery of AI features spanning LLMs, RAG, and multi agent workflows from ingestion to inference, including offline/edge constraints where required.
- Partner with Tech Leads to make trade offs in design and architecture, aligning research prototypes with production requirements and service levels.
- Coordinate release readiness across testing, evaluation, and go live plans.
- Align engineering and DevOps on environments, observability, and incident response, ensuring deployments are auditable, cost aware, and reversible.
- Oversee vendor and subcontractor deliverables, ensuring integrations meet contractual, performance, and compliance requirements.
- Own risk mitigation for compliance and security constraints typical of regulated sectors, escalating early with clear options and impacts.
- Translate product goals into executable backlogs and milestones, sequencing dependencies across AI, frontend, backend, and platform teams.
- Review GitHub PRs alongside Tech Leads to validate scope, surface trade offs, and maintain momentum without compromising quality.
- Represent Oxford Dynamics with customers and partners, including contributions to bids and programme inputs where needed.
- Drive adherence to security and quality management processes appropriate to regulated domains such as defence, aerospace, healthcare, and finance.
- Ensure projects maintain audit evidence for decisions, testing, and releases, with recovery plans and responsibilities defined prior to go live.
Qualifications
- 5+ years managing software and AI programmes with multiple stakeholders, delivering production releases in fast moving environments.
- Proven delivery across teams using React and Python stacks (e.g., Django, FastAPI, Flask) or equivalent modern frameworks.
- Hands on experience coordinating projects that integrate LLMs, RAG, and related AI components into shipped products.
- Strong scope, requirements, and budget control; confident discussing technical trade offs and reviewing PRs with engineers.
- Experience in regulated environments with security and compliance responsibilities across the delivery lifecycle.
- SC clearance or eligibility for UK national security vetting as required by programmes.
Preferred / Bonus
- Portfolio of shipped AI/robotics/software projects with measurable outcomes and references to regulated work where applicable.
- Knowledge of data security and accreditation processes; experience with offline/edge solutions or constrained deployments.
- Comfort presenting to senior stakeholders and contributing to business development activities and bids.
Soft Skills
- High agency ownership from concept to launch, with a bias to clarity, iteration, and decision making under uncertainty.
- Excellent communication across technical and non technical audiences, enabling fast, safe progress across disciplines.
- Calm, structured problem solving during incidents and changing constraints, with clear follow through on actions and learning.
Benefits
- Salary: negotiable based on experience and attitudes.
- Rapid career progression with meaningful ownership of core systems.
- Opportunity to shape the future of a fast growing, successful, early stage business.
- Flexible working hours.
- Hybrid working model.
- Company pension (UK Government NEST scheme) with company contributions at 4%.
- Private healthcare.
- 29 days holiday in addition to public holidays (Full Time Equivalent).
- Inclusive team experience for all; we believe our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their authentic self.