Senior Lead Technical Program Manager
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LumenTelecommunications networks
This is a remote opportunity open to candidates located anywhere in the U.S.Full-TimeLead
Salary132,232 - 193,940 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of progressively responsible program management experience
- Required Skills
- JiraRisk Management
Requirements
- Have a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Have 10+ years of progressively responsible program management experience supporting complex technical, network, engineering, infrastructure, or transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrate broad understanding of telecommunications networks, including hardware, software, infrastructure, planning, deployment, lifecycle management, and operations.
- Translate ambiguous technical or strategic objectives into executable plans, coordinated workstreams, governance models, and measurable outcomes.
- Lead multiple interdependent initiatives and resolve cross-functional risks, resource constraints, sequencing challenges, and competing priorities.
- Work across technical and business teams, including Architecture, Engineering, Planning, Operations, Security, IT, Product, Finance, and executive leadership.
- Demonstrate communication, facilitation, influence, analytical thinking, problem-solving, and executive decision-support skills.
- Use Jira and related portfolio, reporting, documentation, or analytics tools to manage milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and delivery evidence.
- Preferred: experience leading network vulnerability remediation, equipment replacement, software deployment, or technology lifecycle programs.
- Preferred: experience across network domains such as IP, optical, transport, Ethernet, edge, security, cloud connectivity, facilities, service delivery, or operations.
- Preferred: experience coordinating planning, testing, change management, deployment readiness, service migration, and operational handoff.
- Preferred: experience with capital planning, vendor dependencies, investment trade-offs, benefits realization, or enterprise portfolio governance.
- Preferred: experience applying responsible AI and automation to program analysis, risk sensing, planning, reporting, knowledge retrieval, or organizational execution.
- Preferred: Project Management Professional certification or comparable program management credential.
Responsibilities
- Lead network programs from early problem definition and strategy through implementation, stabilization, and operational handoff.
- Create execution frameworks when scope, ownership, solution approach, funding, or sequencing is not fully defined.
- Orchestrate multiple programs or workstreams with enterprise dependencies, competing priorities, risks, and senior leadership visibility.
- Establish governance, decision rights, operating rhythms, success measures, and executive review processes.
- Drive sequencing and readiness across architecture, design, build, lab, test, change, deployment, service readiness, and operations.
- Identify systemic constraints, organizational gaps, and portfolio-level dependencies.
- Anticipate strategic, technical, operational, financial, vendor, and organizational risks.
- Mentor project and program managers and improve delivery, governance, and executive communication standards.
- Champion scalable AI-enabled and automated workflows for portfolio governance, predictability, engineering productivity, and organizational learning.
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