Job Description
Job Title:  PROJECT MANAGER L1
City:  Redmond
State/Province:  Washington
Posting Start Date:  4/29/26
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.
Job Description: 

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Role Overview

We are seeking a Technical Project Manager – L1 who will be responsible for driving technical excellence, leading engineering teams, and delivering scalable, high‑quality solutions aligned with business objectives. This role blends technical leadership, project execution, and stakeholder collaboration, with a strong preference for candidates experienced in Microsoft technologies and Microsoft client environments.

The ideal candidate is comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment, translating business requirements into technical solutions, and ensuring projects are delivered on time with high quality.


Key Responsibilities

Technical & Project Leadership

  • Lead the design and development of complex software systems and applications
  • Define technical architecture, frameworks, and development best practices
  • Ensure high standards for code quality, performance, scalability, and security
  • Conduct code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback
  • Manage project risks, dependencies, and technical challenges

Team Management & Mentorship

  • Mentor and guide engineering team members, supporting technical and career growth
  • Allocate tasks, track progress, and ensure timely milestone delivery
  • Conduct technical interviews and support hiring initiatives

Project Delivery & Execution

  • Collaborate with product managers, stakeholders, and cross‑functional teams
  • Translate business and functional requirements into effective technical solutions
  • Drive execution of automation runs and analyze automation results
  • Track, report, and manage defects/issues identified during automated regression testing

Process, Quality & Continuous Improvement

  • Implement and continuously improve development and delivery processes
  • Ensure proper documentation, knowledge sharing, and technical transparency
  • Support quality assurance initiatives to ensure reliable and scalable solutions

Stakeholder Communication

  • Act as a bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders
  • Provide regular updates on project status, risks, and mitigation plans
  • Participate in strategic planning and technical decision‑making

Required Skills & Experience

  • Experience leading or managing software development projects in a technical environment
  • Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and engineering best practices
  • Hands‑on experience with Microsoft technologies is strongly preferred
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast‑paced, evolving environment
  • Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills
  • Excellent verbal and written business and technical communication skills
  • Experience with automation execution, reporting, and defect tracking

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- Delivery Management
- Ensure seamless delivery of the projects 
- Deploy optimum project delivery structure post transition/ migration phase by evaluating the budget, costs, risks and staffing requirement 
- Create quarterly project charter with well-defined weekly project trajectory as per the project specifications & requirements and ensure 100% adherence in terms of schedule, quality, efforts and costs 


- Ensure 100% compliance to Project SLAs, information security protocols and etc (all customers contractual obligations)
- Monitor and take appropriate actions on internal and external audit findings to ensure no major non-compliance/ deviation from the SLA
- Liaise between customer and internal technical delivery team to drive project health by adhering to organizational norms of project metrics
- Drive various project related audits like quality, customer, ISO etc and ensure zero non-compliance
- Conduct periodic cadence with the quality team to take proactive measures to resolves issues/ possible escalations
- Conducts periodic cadence with Workforce Management Group (WMG) to ensure 100% fulfillment as per the program/ project requirement
- Regularly audit quality (QA) status of delivery and engage QA team to ensure adherence to Quality Assurance standards and processes
- Maintain project structure in Confluence & SAP in line with prevailing business requirements and norms
- Ensure expected ramp down (ERD) compliance as committed in MSA

- Client Relationship Management
- Engage with client to deploy opportunities to deploy multiple solutions within/ across SLs to create a stronger value proposition for clients
- Conduct regular customer connects (meetings/ visits/ video- conference) and participate in Management Review Meetings (MRM) with client management/engagement managers to understand customers current and future needs and seek feedback to improve delivery methodology/ timelines/ resource allocation

- Identify and close early warnings on a project to avoid any customer escalations
- Plan and conduct Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) along with DMs/ ADH with the client management/ leadership team to drive improvement actions and mine for a new portfolio/ opportunity within the account
- Design and monitor project performance dashboards/ reports with the clients periodically

- Delivery governance across the project
- Create weekly/ monthly/ quarterly MIS and reports to monitor and track overall project
- Conduct periodic reviews with the delivery team on operational, quality and fulfillment parameters and new idea generation & its implementation on existing projects

- Identify and resolve potential risks or early warning signs on project delivery to drive for ZERO surprise escalations and eliminate any revenue leakage
- Escalate any deviations from the project charter to the delivery managers in terms of schedule, effort, cost, infrastructure from the project charter and minimize process exceptions and such deviations from the actual project plan
- Review and monitor revenue allocations/ realization to avoid OB revenue leakage
- Provide inputs to delivery leadership team on overall delivery performance parameters (project heath, utilization, realization etc) at project/ program level during reviews highlighting any critical project escalations and potential risks

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- Operational Excellence
- Automation Focus
- Perform pareto analysis as per the no. of incidents received and accordingly identify automation opportunities and drive value adds across the project
- Deploy next generation hyper automation and crowdsourcing initiatives in coordination with Holmes RO team to enhance productivity, quality and speed of delivery


- Interact and engage with tools team to bring in new tools in the project to automate certain pointers/ elimination of any noise in the project

- Innovation Focus
- Brainstorm with the team to identify improvement opportunities and initiatives to further improve quality, delivery speed and productivity parameters
- Drive value adds and BVMs; ensure management showcases them to customer in MRM & QBR to drive growth

- Plan and conduct periodic idea campaigns to generate new solutions to the problems/ define better ways of working

- Drive and deploy Knowledge Management and sharing 
- Contribute in internal knowledge sharing initiatives at Wipro by driving internal training sessions, best practices, learnings, value adds and BVMs and deploys best practices in various projects within own account
- Deploy the Wipro's knowledge management portal across the account and monitor & track trainings

- Capability Development and Talent Pipeline Creation
- Demand forecasting in line with business requirements 
- Anticipate attrition and ensure right talent supply chain to deliver the project
- Spearhead quarterly demand forecasting and resource planning aligned to project requirements


- Create and deploy a workplan to fulfil the required demand from all the talent channels including external (lateral, contractors etc) hiring in coordination with WMG/ CWMG and Talent Acquisition team
- Anticipate new skills/ upcoming technologies required to deliver the project and ensure the team is trained or right talent is inducted into the project as per the skill requirements

- Drive 100% compliance on trainings and upskilling requirements 
- Prioritize and identify essential and upcoming technical skills required across programs/ projects to facilitate and drive right supply chain
- Drive towards 100% mandatory training compliance for the target population within an account

- Plan and drive rotations for seed positions and ensure replacement plan to be arrived ahead of rotations
- Quarterly connect with critical talent to understand their career aspirations and create their learning maps along with project managers and HRBP

- Fresher engagement program
- Ensure a stable arrangement and assimilation of rookie within accounts in coordination with competency group team (classroom trainings/ e-learning, certifications, on the job training etc)

- Team Management
- Resourcing
- Forecast talent requirements as per the current and future business needs
- Hire adequate and right resources for the team

- Talent Management
- Ensure adequate onboarding and training for the team members to enhance capability & effectiveness
- Build an internal talent pool and ensure their career progression within the organization


- Manage team attrition
- Drive diversity in leadership positions
- Performance Management
- Set goals for the team, conduct timely performance reviews and provide constructive feedback to own direct reports
- Ensure that the Performance Nxt is followed for the entire team

- Employee Satisfaction and Engagement
- Lead and drive engagement initiatives for the team
- Track team satisfaction scores and identify initiatives to build engagement within the team

- Facilitate rewards and recognition to acknowledge the high performers in the team
 

Mandatory Skills: Program Management .

 

Experience: 8-10 Years .

 

The expected compensation for this role ranges from $100,000 to $180,000 .

 

Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro's standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options.

 

Applicants are advised that employment in some roles may be conditioned on successful completion of a post-offer drug screening, subject to applicable state law.

 

Wipro provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Applications from veterans and people with disabilities are explicitly welcome.

 

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