Senior Technical Program Manager

Job Description

Would you enjoy the opportunity to impact key business objectives?

Are you eager to work on fast paced projects that impact a global technology leader?

Join the Cloud Technology Group Program Management team!

Our Technical Program Managers lead programs and initiatives across the division from concept to market. We align product, engineering, and business teams to exceed customer expectations. We are relied on by leaders across the organization to execute critical programs with high business impact.

Shape the success of projects

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you'll lead a team of developers and site reliability engineers in a key routing services reliability program. You will apply technical fluency, program management, and relationship skills to deliver solutions in compute. Success requires clear, structured communication, process building and improvement, and aligning engineering execution with organizational strategy and customer needs.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Supporting cross-functional teams and providing subject matter expertise in planning and execution of multiple projects and programs
• Fostering effective communication and maintaining meticulous documentation
• Reporting on program status, areas of risk/opportunity, process dependencies and success metrics to senior internal stakeholders
• Engaging regularly with key collaborators, effectively communicating progress, to evaluate and identify business risks, understand priorities and propose solutions
• Adopting best-practice guidelines to influence and implement continuous improvements to the processes
• Maintaining and nurturing relationships with internal engineering teams, focusing on server hardware components

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's diploma or its equivalent
• Demonstrate proficient experience in program or project management in a cross-functional and technical team
• Have a sufficient level of technical background to provide credibility to technical teams and accurately and objectively evaluate risks and issues
• Possess experience navigating ambiguity, managing risks, and adapting to changing priorities
• Have good interpersonal and organizational skills with an ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders
• Be able to adapt quickly and respond to changing priorities in a dynamic environment
• Demonstrate excellent teamwork and be eager to engage in diverse, creative, and innovative projects
• Demonstrate ability to inspire people at all levels of the organization without direct authority
• Demonstrate proficient experience in managing Agile work processes

About Us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our Focus Is Simple

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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