Principal Technical Program Manager, NA

About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Product and Engineering Department

The Product and Engineering organizations at Vantage deliver the platforms, systems, and infrastructure that underpin our global data center portfolio. Technical Program Management enables the successful delivery of highly complex, cross-organizational technical initiatives, ensuring architectural intent translates into reliable, scalable execution. TPMs are force multipliers—operating with broad scope, deep technical credibility, and minimal oversight to prevent technical failure at scale.

Position Overview

This role will be based remotely in the United States.

The Principal Technical Program Manager is responsible for owning and driving Vantage’s most complex, high-risk technical programs, spanning infrastructure platforms, distributed systems, and hardware/software co-design. This role operates as a single-threaded technical execution owner, partnering with senior engineering, architecture, and product leaders to anticipate failure modes, resolve deep technical tradeoffs, and ensure systems are designed and delivered for scale, reliability, and long-term operability. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role with no direct people management responsibility.

Essential Job Functions

• Own and drive company-critical technical programs spanning multiple engineering organizations
• Partner with senior engineers and architects to challenge designs, validate assumptions, and surface tradeoffs
• Decompose complex, interdependent systems into sequenced technical milestones and delivery plans
• Proactively identify technical risks, failure modes, integration issues, and scale constraints
• Lead cross-org dependency management for platform, infrastructure, and systems initiatives
• Drive execution of large-scale platform builds, infrastructure migrations, and hardware/software co-design programs
• Establish and enforce technical readiness checkpoints and delivery criteria
• Serve as the technical authority in program reviews, escalations, and executive forums
• Translate deep technical complexity into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership
• Additional duties as assigned by Management

Job Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Technical Program Management or Engineering Program Management
• Deep technical fluency in systems architecture, infrastructure platforms, APIs, or hardware systems
• Proven credibility with senior engineering and architecture leaders
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale, multi-year, cross-organizational technical programs
• Strong program execution discipline across ambiguous, high-risk technical initiatives
• Ability to operate independently with minimal oversight in complex environments
• Travel required is expected to be up to 20% but may increase over time as the business evolves

Physical Demands And Special Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop or kneel; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Additional Details

• Salary Range: $185,000 - $195,000 Base + Bonus (this range is based on Colorado market data and may vary in other locations)
• This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.
• Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including your qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience and may fall outside of the range shown.

We operate with No Ego and No Arrogance. We work to build each other up and support one another, appreciating each other’s strengths and respecting each other’s weaknesses. We find joy in our work and each other, actively seeking opportunities to inject fun into what we do. Our hard and efficient work is rewarded with an above market total compensation package. We offer a comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations.

Throughout the year, the advantage of being part of the Vantage team is evident with an array of benefits, recognition, training and development, and the knowledge that your contribution adds value to the company and our community.

Don't meet all the requirements? Please still apply if you think you are the right person for the position. We are always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.

Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Vantage Data Centers does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm agencies. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of Vantage Data Centers.

We’ll be accepting applications for at least one week from the date this role is posted. If you're interested, we encourage you to apply soon—we’re excited to find the right person and will keep the role open until we do!