Senior Technical Project Manager
About the role
About Morningstar
Morningstar unites problem solvers with a clear goal: helping investors achieve their financial objectives. As a leading investment research and data company, we stand out by how we apply our insights to serve a broad range of users. Our independent investment research, powered by cutting-edge technology and design, provides tailored solutions that meet users' needs. With a strong foundation in data and innovation, we deliver comprehensive services to investors worldwide — empowering better decisions for individuals and those managing money for millions.
The Role
We are seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to own delivery execution and operational rigor within Morningstar’s Central Technology Web Development team, supporting our Corporate Marketing digital ecosystem. The ideal candidate excels at working with engineering leaders and product owners to translate business requirements into clear priorities, visualize work, report status via dashboards, and own delivery commitments.
Position Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid – 4 days onsite per week)
Job Responsibilities:
- Own technical delivery execution across one or more cross-functional engineering teams, from planning through release.
- Serve as the primary Scrum leader, establishing and maintaining effective agile operating rhythms including sprint planning, standups, reviews, retrospectives, and refinement.
- Coordinate sprint and release planning, managing dependencies, sequencing, and risk across teams and stakeholders.
- Act as the delivery counterpart to Product Owners, partnering closely to balance scope, priorities, timelines, and capacity.
- Maintain delivery visibility and transparency through accurate, up-to-date tracking in JIRA and executive-level reporting in Asana or similar tools.
- Proactively identify delivery risks, bottlenecks, and process breakdowns, escalating tradeoffs early with clear options and recommendations.
- Ensure backlogs are refinement-ready, facilitating collaboration between product and engineering to achieve shared understanding before commitment.
- Support engineering teams by removing delivery friction, clarifying expectations, and protecting focus during sprints.
- Drive continuous improvement of team processes, predictability, and throughput through data-informed retrospectives and experimentation.
- Partner with QA to coordinate testing strategy, timing, and readiness to support reliable releases.
- Communicate delivery status, risks, and dependencies clearly to leadership and stakeholders, avoiding surprises and “last-minute” escalations.
- Reinforce accountability and ownership while fostering a healthy, sustainable team culture.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in project delivery or program management roles leading software engineering teams.
- Proven experience serving as a Scrum leader or agile delivery owner.
- Experience supporting distributed or multi-location engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, dependencies, and timelines in complex stakeholder environments.
- Hands-on experience with delivery tooling — in particular Asana, JIRA, and Confluence.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to surface risks, negotiate tradeoffs, and align diverse groups around clear plans.
- Experience managing deliveries against fixed marketing milestones and campaign windows.
- Experience balancing planned sprint work with support requests, hotfixes, and urgent needs.
- Comfortable working with senior engineers and technical leaders, able to ask the right questions and challenge assumptions without needing to be the technical authority.
- Strong organizational instincts and attention to detail, balanced with pragmatism.
- Proven track record of owning delivery commitments and improving predictability, team health, and operational maturity.
Nice to have:
- Experience building systems for digital marketing, analytics, personalization, or content workflows.
- Experience supporting teams working with modern frontend frameworks or component-based systems.
Base Salary Compensation Range
$75,600.00-110,874.00
Incentive Target Percentage
12.5% Annual
Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
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About Morningstar
Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment insights in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Company offers an extensive line of products and solutions that serve a wide range of market participants, including individual and institutional investors in public and private capital markets, financial advisors and wealth managers, asset managers, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and issuers of fixed-income securities. Morningstar provides data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with approximately $328 billion in AUMA as of Sept. 30, 2024. The Company operates through wholly-owned subsidiaries in 32 countries.
Senior Technical Project Manager
About the role
About Morningstar
Morningstar unites problem solvers with a clear goal: helping investors achieve their financial objectives. As a leading investment research and data company, we stand out by how we apply our insights to serve a broad range of users. Our independent investment research, powered by cutting-edge technology and design, provides tailored solutions that meet users' needs. With a strong foundation in data and innovation, we deliver comprehensive services to investors worldwide — empowering better decisions for individuals and those managing money for millions.
The Role
We are seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to own delivery execution and operational rigor within Morningstar’s Central Technology Web Development team, supporting our Corporate Marketing digital ecosystem. The ideal candidate excels at working with engineering leaders and product owners to translate business requirements into clear priorities, visualize work, report status via dashboards, and own delivery commitments.
Position Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid – 4 days onsite per week)
Job Responsibilities:
- Own technical delivery execution across one or more cross-functional engineering teams, from planning through release.
- Serve as the primary Scrum leader, establishing and maintaining effective agile operating rhythms including sprint planning, standups, reviews, retrospectives, and refinement.
- Coordinate sprint and release planning, managing dependencies, sequencing, and risk across teams and stakeholders.
- Act as the delivery counterpart to Product Owners, partnering closely to balance scope, priorities, timelines, and capacity.
- Maintain delivery visibility and transparency through accurate, up-to-date tracking in JIRA and executive-level reporting in Asana or similar tools.
- Proactively identify delivery risks, bottlenecks, and process breakdowns, escalating tradeoffs early with clear options and recommendations.
- Ensure backlogs are refinement-ready, facilitating collaboration between product and engineering to achieve shared understanding before commitment.
- Support engineering teams by removing delivery friction, clarifying expectations, and protecting focus during sprints.
- Drive continuous improvement of team processes, predictability, and throughput through data-informed retrospectives and experimentation.
- Partner with QA to coordinate testing strategy, timing, and readiness to support reliable releases.
- Communicate delivery status, risks, and dependencies clearly to leadership and stakeholders, avoiding surprises and “last-minute” escalations.
- Reinforce accountability and ownership while fostering a healthy, sustainable team culture.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in project delivery or program management roles leading software engineering teams.
- Proven experience serving as a Scrum leader or agile delivery owner.
- Experience supporting distributed or multi-location engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, dependencies, and timelines in complex stakeholder environments.
- Hands-on experience with delivery tooling — in particular Asana, JIRA, and Confluence.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to surface risks, negotiate tradeoffs, and align diverse groups around clear plans.
- Experience managing deliveries against fixed marketing milestones and campaign windows.
- Experience balancing planned sprint work with support requests, hotfixes, and urgent needs.
- Comfortable working with senior engineers and technical leaders, able to ask the right questions and challenge assumptions without needing to be the technical authority.
- Strong organizational instincts and attention to detail, balanced with pragmatism.
- Proven track record of owning delivery commitments and improving predictability, team health, and operational maturity.
Nice to have:
- Experience building systems for digital marketing, analytics, personalization, or content workflows.
- Experience supporting teams working with modern frontend frameworks or component-based systems.
Base Salary Compensation Range
$75,600.00-110,874.00
Incentive Target Percentage
12.5% Annual
Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
100_MstarResCanad Morningstar Research, Inc. (Canada) Legal Entity
About Morningstar
Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment insights in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Company offers an extensive line of products and solutions that serve a wide range of market participants, including individual and institutional investors in public and private capital markets, financial advisors and wealth managers, asset managers, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and issuers of fixed-income securities. Morningstar provides data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with approximately $328 billion in AUMA as of Sept. 30, 2024. The Company operates through wholly-owned subsidiaries in 32 countries.