About the role

Job Description: Technical Project Manager / Delivery Lead

Purpose of the Role
KAT Compliance Karma is building an enterprise GST compliance platform (RegTech) in partnership with Vernost as the development agency. The delivery organisation currently depends heavily on a single domain resource for requirements, tech enablement and testing, with limited documentation and process standardisation. This has created key-person risk and delivery unpredictability.
The Technical Project Manager / Delivery Lead (“Delivery Lead”) is being brought in to own the end-to-end delivery process and to institutionalise knowledge so that KAT is not dependent on any single individual. The Delivery Lead converts domain know-how into durable artifacts (BRD, FSD, test plans, decision logs), enforces the testing and release discipline designed by the founder, and is the single accountable owner for on-time, correct delivery.

Reporting and Position in the Organisation
* Reports to: Founder
* Works with: GST Domain Lead (SME), Business Analyst, Testing team, and Vernost (development agency)
* Seniority: Senior enough to hold delivery governance independently and manage team accordingly. This is not a junior coordinator role.

Key Responsibilities
* Requirements ownership: Own and version-control the BRD, FSD and API specifications. These are drafted with the SME and Business Analyst, but the Delivery Lead is accountable for their completeness, sign-off and traceability.
* Delivery and planning: Run sprint planning, backlog and JIRA hygiene with Vernost. Maintain a clear delivery plan, milestones and status reporting to the CEO.
* Test governance: Enforce the testing process defined by the founder. Own the test strategy, test case coverage, traceability matrix and UAT sign-off. No release proceeds without a signed test plan.
* Knowledge institutionalisation: Ensure every input from the domain SME becomes a documented artifact. Eliminate “thought about but not documented” gaps. This is a first-class deliverable, not an afterthought.
* Decision and risk logging: Maintain a decision log (what, why, who, when) and a RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), reviewed with the CEO on a fixed cadence.
* Vendor management: Manage the Vendor relationship on scope, timelines and quality; translate business requirements into actionable engineering tasks and hold the vendor to delivery commitments.
* Team enablement: Direct the Business Analyst and testing team, ensuring they follow defined processes rather than routing every decision back to me.

Required Profile
* Experience: 8 to 12 years in software delivery, with hands-on ownership of RegTech, FinTech, or ERP / tax-technology implementations.
* Requirements engineering: Demonstrated ability to author and own BRD, FSD and API specifications, and to build requirement traceability matrices.
* Delivery discipline: Strong Agile / Scrum delivery, JIRA, sprint and release management.
* Test governance: Practical command of test case design, UAT management and quality gates.