Senior Technical Program Manager, Platform
United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary149450 - 195375 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AgileSCRUM
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience performing cross-functional technical project management, preferably in a startup environment.
- 3+ years of experience managing or implementing an agile, scrum-based team of teams framework that influences a 50+ person engineering organization.
- Deep understanding of platform engineering throughout an organization: best practices, testing, and training.
- Deep understanding of end-to-end architecture and the software engineering life cycle.
- Understanding of the basics of cloud infrastructure delivery and associated key metrics.
- Excellent leadership skills with superior written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to solve problems and improve team performance.
- Ability to keep teams organized and on track.
- Comfortable in fast-paced and complex environments.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Engineering Managers to plan product expansion roadmaps for platform engineering.
- Lead end-to-end planning and delivery for complex cross-functional programs with clear goals, timelines, owners, and success metrics.
- Partner with Principal Engineers, Staff Engineers, and senior engineering leadership to develop plans to scale our systems and services, and in some cases - help break our monolithic backend into multiple services.
- Build and maintain program plans, RAID logs, status updates, and executive-ready communication materials.
- Build consensus and deliver high-value outcomes.
- Develop project plans across teams as needed within the Product and Engineering department (DevOps, IT, Product, Engineering, and QA), as well as cross-functional teams extending throughout the company.
- Partner with project-specific stakeholders throughout the company to capture details and perform successful change management with third-party development partners.
- Utilize lifecycle data to proactively raise risks and trade-off decisions to key stakeholders. Actively mitigate these with scope control and resourcing.
- Identify and resolve all cross-organizational dependencies and potential blockers.
- Ensure all status materials and roadmap documents are compiled, aggregated and complete and remain well-maintained.
- Drive improvement and iteration on the platform engineering roadmap.
- Facilitate iteration planning, progress tracking, retrospectives and reporting.
- Develop key metrics to track the effectiveness of the distribution of work to third party partners.
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