Senior Technical Program Manager

Do you relish the prospect of leading strategic cross-organization programs?

Do you thrive on managing complexity and uncertainty?

Join our Cloud Technology Program Management team

Our Senior Technical Program Managers lead initiatives across the enterprise from concept to market. We align product, software engineering, site reliability and architecture teams to exceed the expectations of our customers. Leaders across the organization rely on us to execute on critical programs with high business impact.

Partner with the best

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager to advance Software Infrastructure Services. This role involves leading programs to enhance reliability and scalability of Akamai's Cloud platform. Responsibilities include coordinating with technical and business stakeholders to enable enterprise-level data center software infrastructure deployments. Join the team driving foundational systems for Akamai's next-generation cloud platform.

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

• Leveraging technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects
• Leading cross-functional teams to support the product/technology roadmap
• Managing programs from concept to market including planning, schedule management, and monitoring of investment levels
• Participating in and enhancing product development, overseeing software lifecycles, and coordinating cross-functional efforts to meet timelines and budgets effectively.
• Demonstrating technical expertise, taking initiative, asking questions, engaging collaboratively, contributing actively, and utilizing communication skills to ensure clarity and effective teamwork.
• Communicating program status and updates clearly to senior leadership and providing guidance and informal mentoring for team members

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Possess relevant experience in program/project management
• Have significant experience in Agile processes and methodologies
• Be able to inspire people at all levels of the organization without authority
• Demonstrate ability in change management and transformation processes
• Possess deep domain expertise in core cloud computing concepts, distributed systems, and scalable cloud infrastructure architecture
• Have good interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills and inspire people at all levels of the organization without authority

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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