Technical Program Manager

Role description

As a Technical Program Manager (TPM) within the Data Engineering organization, you will be one of several TPMs driving end-to-end project delivery for multiple high-velocity teams. This is a high-impact, "go-getter" role for a leader who moves beyond simply status tracking to actively accelerate progress and remove technical roadblocks ensuring effective delivery through a blend of SAFe/Agile and traditional program management practices. While we operate as a global team, candidates based on the U.S. East Coast are preferred to facilitate distributed team collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

1. Proactive Delivery & Execution Ownership

• Drive End-to-End Delivery: Own the execution of technical initiatives, translating high-level objectives into actionable plans and managing cross-team dependencies.
• Accelerate Progress: Actively remove impediments and "ruthlessly prioritize" the backlog to ensure the team remains focused on critical-path items that drive business value.
• Ceremony Leadership: Lead key Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives) and manage the intake of ad-hoc items alongside major initiatives.
• Queue Management: Monitor incoming request queues, surfacing new items to engineering to ensure they are tracked, estimated, and prioritized.

2. Technical SME & Risk Management

3. Stakeholder Alignment & PMO Collaboration

• Communication Bridge: Act as the primary link between engineering and stakeholders, providing clear, concise updates on progress and trade-offs while ensuring meeting efficiency.
• PMO Connectivity: Collaborate with other PMs to ensure consistency across tickets and requests logged within the broader DTS team.
• Strategic Planning: Lead early inception planning and support Program Increment (PI) planning and roadmap alignment.
• Visibility & Reporting: Develop and maintain dashboards to provide transparency into program health, delivery predictability, and team performance.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Professional Experience: Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or Software Engineering.
• Domain Knowledge: Experience serving as a TPM or Scrum Master specifically within a Data Engineering department.
• Product Delivery Models: Strong understanding of traditional program management, SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban frameworks, coupled with expertise in Jira administration and workflow management.
• Program Management Expertise: Expert in dependency management, risk management, and delivery projects from end to end.
• Program Leadership: Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional technical programs involving multiple distributed teams.
• Soft Skills: Exceptional stakeholder coordination, facilitation, and problem-solving abilities.