Senior Technical Program Manager

At Mindera, we are seeking a Senior Tech Program Manager to join our team and play a key role in one of our projects within the betting industry.

This is a pivotal position where your mission will be to ensure the successful execution of the project, managing scope, budget, schedule, and risks, while keeping our teams supported, focused, and delivering with quality.

National and international expected traveling time varies according to project/client and organisational needs: 0%-15% estimated.

• Own the end-to-end project management process, from scope definition to delivery, ensuring goals, timelines, and budgets are met.
  
• Negotiate and manage client expectations, building strong and transparent communication.
  
• Create and maintain a clear project roadmap and a delivery plan, tracking progress and adapting when needed.
  
• Lead and organize multidisciplinary teams, promoting collaboration, focus, and accountability.
  
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks proactively to ensure project stability and predictability.
  
• Be pragmatic and hands-on, someone who knows how to remove pressure from teams, unblock issues, and keep things running smoothly.
  
• Ensure effective stakeholder management, aligning business, product, and technology perspectives.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience as a Project Manager / Delivery Manager in software development environments.
• Proven experience at a senior program management level, particularly in communicating with senior stakeholders and reporting on success metrics, OKRs, and KPIs.
• Technical understanding (architecture, development, or software delivery background).
• Excellent planning, prioritisation, and communication skills.
• Confidence in negotiating with clients and managing expectations.
• Experience organizing and leading multiple teams in dynamic settings.
• A pragmatic, results-oriented mindset, focused on delivery and outcomes.
• Ability to stay calm under pressure and to shield teams from unnecessary stress.

The Things We Really Care About:

• Health Insurance, because health comes first
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers

Other Good Things:

• Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
• We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote is also an option.
• At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
• Partnerships with local businesses

Most of all You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self management attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

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Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Blumenau, Brazil