Technical Project Manager

We exist to build great software. It’s our shared purpose and brand promise to our customers.

We offer technology services in data & analytics, generative AI, machine learning, reporting & visualization, application modernization, cloud optimization, and security.

Clients consistently recognize us for our technical leadership and excellence in execution.

Recognized 12 times on the Inc. 5000 list for sustained organic growth, MAQ Software continues to evolve as a leader in enterprise software and AI innovation—delivering measurable impact and long-term value to our clients.

As a Microsoft Fabric and Power BI Featured Partner, we help leading enterprises accelerate their business intelligence and analytics initiatives. Our solutions empower clients to improve their operations, reduce costs, increase sales, and strengthen customer relationships.

To enhance Power BI capabilities, we have published 43 certified custom visuals, now with over 5 million downloads. Our most popular visuals include Gantt Chart, Calendar Visual, Hierarchy Chart, Box and Whisker Chart.

We operate within the professional services spectrum, focusing on procedure services—where specialized knowledge, repeatable processes, and expert solutions differentiate us from those offering standardized, commodity services. Our emphasis on technical expertise, consistent delivery, and agility is why clients trust us with complex, high-impact projects.

Our software delivery model is built on:

• Daily software updates
• Agile project management
• Transparent workflows
• Domain-specific expertise
• Rapid feedback and iteration cycles

Exclusively focused on enterprise customers, we currently serve many Fortune 500 companies. As a premier supplier to Microsoft for over 25 years, our clients benefit from deep platform knowledge and mature engineering practices. Microsoft has awarded us 10 specializations, recognizing our commitment to delivering service excellence at scale.

With globally distributed teams across Redmond, Washington and Noida, Mumbai, and Hyderabad, India, we operate with increased velocity and tech intensity. Our integrated teams deliver solutions that are both scalable and adaptable to evolving business needs.

Fueling the Future of AI Engineering

Our commitment to innovation continues with the opening of our new AI Engineering Center in Noida—a 12-story, 350,000-square-foot campus that strengthens our presence in India and supports the future of enterprise AI solutions.

Key Features of the Noida Campus

• Modern, Collaborative Workspaces: Designed to encourage creativity and teamwork, the campus features open workspaces, collaborative zones, and advanced technology for a productive, engaging environment.
• AI Innovation Hub: This campus will be a focal point for AI research and development, with a special emphasis on Agentic AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), machine learning, natural language processing, and data analytics.
• Enhanced Client Collaboration: The new facility will enable closer collaboration with clients, allowing us to deliver tailored AI solutions that meet their specific needs.
• Talent Development: We are committed to nurturing the next generation of AI engineers. The Noida campus includes dedicated spaces for training, mentorship, and career growth.

Sustainability Highlights

• Designed for LEED Gold certification
• A 598 KW solar power system supplies nearly 50% of the building’s energy
• Zero-discharge water system with rainwater harvesting
• Energy-efficient facade with solar heat-reducing fins

Engineering Culture:

Innovation at Heart: A Culture of Agility and Growth

• Can-Do Spirit: At MAQ Software, we cultivate a collaborative engineering environment where a "can-do" attitude thrives.
• Experienced Leadership: Our key managers come with impressive academic backgrounds and a proven track record of growing the company and mentoring software engineers.
• Embracing the Future: Our lean structure allows for agility and rapid adoption of cutting-edge technologies and computing trends, keeping us ahead of the curve.
• Cutting-Edge & Fast-Paced: Be at the forefront of technology. Our globally distributed engineering team tackles challenging problems using the latest software practices and rapid development cycles.
• Continuous Learning & Innovation: Our collaborative and supportive environment fosters innovation and growth. You'll constantly learn and push boundaries alongside talented colleagues.
• Rewarding Career Path: We offer exciting and rewarding work experience that will propel your career forward.

Examples of some of our projects:

• We built an AI-powered data platform on Microsoft Fabric for a global technology company, automating migration from Azure Databricks and ensuring seamless conversion and validation. Leveraging Direct Lake and a data mesh, we improved performance, governance, and scalability, achieving 48% fewer reports, 40% faster insights, and up to 25% cost savings while maintaining legacy functionality and enabling future-ready, AI-driven analytics.
• For a leading fintech company, we developed an analytics platform using Azure Synapse, Data Lake Storage, Data Factory, Databricks, and Power BI. Automated deployment reduced setup from days to hours. The scalable solution now supports 1,000+ clients, offers near real-time self-service analytics, and easily integrates machine learning innovation, reaching millions of customers quickly.
• We migrated an organic supermarket chain to Microsoft Power BI and Azure Synapse, enabling real-time insights through direct queries between Power BI and backend data. The upgrade improved security, automated report generation, reduced operational costs, increased ROI, and empowered teams with better business decisions thanks to enhanced visualization and self-service capabilities.
• We're developing products to enhance Power BI: EmbedFAST makes integration easy, LoadFAST accelerates loading times and automates user experience, and CertyFAST streamlines model development with error detection, DAX formatting, and documentation. These solutions improve Power BI quality, automation, and best-practice adherence for enterprises.
• We helped a multinational food and beverage chain to improve its sales forecasting accuracy by building a hybrid machine learning model on Azure Databricks. The model used historical sales, weather, and event data to predict future sales and analyze the impact of various factors on sales. The model also detected and explained seasonal and daily spikes and lag periods. Our model reduced the MAPE value from 0.13 to 0.09 and enabled the client to make better business decisions.

To read about some of our recent projects, visit https://maqsoftware.com/case-studies

Job Description:

We are looking for experienced and driven Technical Project Managers with deep expertise in Microsoft technologies. The ideal candidate brings a strong delivery mindset, hands-on leadership, and the ability to manage complex projects in a fast-paced environment.

This role involves full ownership of engineering delivery for key customer accounts. Responsibilities include leading a team of 30 to 60 engineers, ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery across multiple concurrent projects.

Involvement spans solution design, technical reviews, and customer interactions. This role requires acting as a trusted advisor, influencing decisions, and shaping outcomes.

As the organization scales from 1,500 to 2,500 engineers globally, this role will contribute to delivery process improvements, team expansion, and account growth.

A mix of engineering depth, project leadership, and customer engagement makes this role ideal for professionals looking to make a lasting impact in a modern software services environment.

Your key result areas as a percentage of your overall work items will be:

Delivery Ownership for Business Groups (20%)

• Own end-to-end delivery for assigned business group(s), ensuring quality, timeliness, and alignment with customer goals and expectations.

• Act as the single point of accountability for delivery success — including scope, schedule, effort, risk, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Drive definition, refinement, and execution of project requirements and feature sets in collaboration with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Review and approve project deliverables across all dimensions — including functionality, usability, security, architecture, code quality, scalability, and performance.
• Ensure delivery predictability and consistency across multiple concurrent projects, with approximately 12 releases annually.
• Promote the use of AI copilots, code generation tools, and automation frameworks to enhance developer velocity and reduce time-to-deliver.
• Continuously identify opportunities to automate testing, deployments, documentation, and monitoring to streamline engineering workflows.
• Track and communicate improvements in developer velocity enabled through internal tooling, platform accelerators, and AI-enhanced delivery practices.
• Proactively identify risks and blockers, take corrective actions to avoid delivery slippage.
• Track and report project progress with relevant metrics, status updates, and executive-level summaries.

Technical Architecture and Problem Solving (20%)

• Provide hands-on leadership in defining and refining solution architectures, technical designs, and implementation approaches for complex enterprise systems.
• Actively contribute to architecture and design decisions, particularly for key modules, integrations, and customer-facing components.
• Guide the team in selecting and applying appropriate modern cloud architectures, including Azure PaaS offerings, microservices, event-driven designs, and data platforms.
• Ensure security, performance, scalability, and maintainability are embedded into the architecture from the outset.
• Participate in detailed code reviews and design validations for critical deliverables — ensuring engineering quality, reusability, and alignment with architectural standards.
• Drive technical problem solving by working directly with developers, leads, and QA — especially during design bottlenecks, production incidents, and performance tuning.
• Identify and incorporate opportunities to integrate AI (e.g., copilots, ML models, LLM-based features) into customer solutions where relevant.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and patterns, and ensure technical strategies evolve with industry trends and customer expectations.

Team Management and Development (20%)

• Lead a dedicated team of 30 to 60 software engineers, working closely with team members on delivery execution, technical design, and issue resolution.

• Align team members effectively across multiple parallel projects, matching responsibilities with skills, expertise, and business priorities to ensure timely and successful delivery.
• Provide hands-on guidance during key phases of projects — from sprint planning and estimation to code reviews and release management.
• Build and nurture high-performance, AI-first teams that embrace modern engineering practices, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Actively mentor engineers and emerging technical leads, enabling them to take ownership of solution design, delivery quality, and team coordination.
• Conduct bi-annual performance reviews with a focus on feedback, coaching, and capability development.
• Visit Redmond and other India-based teams annually to strengthen cross-site collaboration, reinforce team alignment, and drive shared outcomes.

Customer Engagement (25%)

• Build and maintain strong relationships with customer stakeholders, acting as a strategic partner rather than just a delivery lead.
• Engage proactively with customers to understand evolving business goals, shape solution roadmaps, and align delivery priorities with long-term outcomes.
• Represent our engineering capabilities with credibility and clarity in technical discussions, planning sessions, and stakeholder reviews.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor, guiding customers on architecture decisions, platform adoption (including AI and cloud-native services), and modernization strategies.
• Drive account growth by identifying whitespace opportunities, influencing backlog planning, and bringing in the right internal expertise at the right time.
• Provide technical pre-sales support, including solutioning, estimation, proposal reviews, and stakeholder presentations.
• Respond to 12–24 RFPs annually, crafting project plans and detailed effort estimates in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Recruitment, Process Innovation, and Training (15%)

• Lead the hiring of high-potential engineers with strong learnability, adaptability, and a growth mindset — not just predefined technical skill sets.
• Conduct an average of 10 interviews per week, ensuring a rigorous, fair, and scalable evaluation process in collaboration with technical leads.
• Drive onboarding and capability-building programs, including intensive technical bootcamps for 40+ recent Computer Science graduates annually.
• Mentor and coach experienced hires (10+ per year) to accelerate their ramp-up and alignment with engineering and delivery standards.
• Spearhead practical innovations in engineering processes — including Agile execution models, quality gates, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling automation.

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement through structured knowledge-sharing, internal tech talks, and lessons-learned forums.

This is a unique opportunity to involve technical management responsibility with a growing organization as part of the core management team.

Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science engineering, or a related field from a reputed university; an MBA from a top-tier institute (IIM or equivalent) is a plus, but not mandatory.
• Proven experience in leading software engineering teams, with a strong focus on delivery ownership, technical excellence, and team development.
• Hands-on experience in IT or software services firms, with exposure to enterprise-scale solution delivery.
• Deep technical expertise in the Microsoft platform.
• Capable of collaborating on solution design, reviewing technical deliverables, and enabling AI-first, cloud-native practices.
• Ability to manage two to five concurrent projects, balancing delivery, stakeholder communication, and team velocity.
• Demonstrated experience in working with international customers — engaging proactively, shaping solutions, and influencing delivery roadmaps.
• Strong orientation toward engineering process excellence — including agile practices, automation, code quality, and release management.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills — comfortable engaging with both engineering teams and senior business stakeholders.

Experience: 10 years and more

Compensation: Market Standards

Work Location: MAQ Software, A-3, Sector 145, Noida

Ideas for Candidates Interested in Preparing for Interview:

• Go through some of the work we do https://maqsoftware.com/case-studies
• Review Founder’s Mentality by Bain and Company

• https://www.bain.com/publications/business- insights/founders-mentality.aspx
• Review What I Did Not Learn in B – School and What I Did Not Learn at IIT book by our Founder, Rajeev Agarwal to learn about the company culture.
• Show your interest and aptitude in the technology services industry.

Our Social Impact Initiatives:

• Our India Academy school program, impacting 160,000 students reach their full potential in government aided schools www.excellence.foundation
• Our investment of over ₹210 Crores in India Eye Hospital to eliminate needless blindness with assistance from Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai at Greater Noida www.IndiaEye.in