Senior Technical Program Manager
Location
India
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Technical Program Manager
Akamai Technologies
• Leading end-to-end delivery of complex, high-visibility, multi-team technical programs • Aligning efforts across engineering, product, and business leadership while balancing multiple priorities effectively. • Developing successful partnerships with engineering, product and program stakeholders across the organization • Identifying areas for process improvement, architecting and proposing solutions and implementing the change management • Providing guidance and mentorship to technical program managers and engineers on effective execution practices.
Job Requirements
- Have 5+ years' experience with Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, another related field or its equivalent.
- Demonstrate business expertise with capability to align program efforts with organizational strategy.
- Anticipate needs, identify gaps promptly, initiate actions to address gaps, resolve issues, solve problems, and eliminate obstacles effectively.
- Be extremely well-organized, details-oriented, motivated, and technically-oriented
- Have excellent and storytelling communication skills for both technical and executive audiences
- Demonstrate expertise in risk management, resolving problems, and effectively navigating uncertain situations.
- Utilize tools like Smartsheets, JIRA, Confluence, Aha, understand networking and cloud technologies, and quickly adapt to new technologies.
- Have familiarity with JQL and data analytic tools such as eazyBI and Tableau
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