Senior Technical Program Manager

Our client is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to join their team. As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will be part of the Delivery & Program Management organization supporting cross-functional engineering workstreams. The ideal candidate will have strong program execution leadership, proven risk and dependency management, and the ability to drive alignment across distributed technical teams, which will align successfully in the organization.

Job Title: Senior Technical Program Manager

Location: Irvine, CA (Onsite)

Pay Range: $60/hour.

What's the Job?

• Own end-to-end program execution and delivery governance for a large-scale Android platform modernization and application migration program for a next-generation In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) platform.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering Android operating system migration, hardware platform bring-up, middleware modernization, passenger/crew/maintenance application porting, integration, verification, compatibility qualification, release readiness, and customer acceptance support.
• Coordinate delivery activities across multiple engineering domains, including Android Platform & BSP, middleware & platform services, passenger applications, crew applications, maintenance applications, build & release engineering, test automation, and system integration.
• Manage schedule execution by creating and maintaining detailed project schedules and integrated master plans, tracking milestone progress, analyzing variance, and driving recovery actions when needed.
• Lead program-level risk, issue, and impediment management by maintaining risk/issue registers, escalating items requiring leadership intervention, and coordinating resolution of environment, infrastructure, access, integration, and test setup blockers.

What's Needed?

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering, embedded systems, or technology program management experience, with at least 5+ years managing large-scale software development programs.
• Experience leading complex platform migration or modernization programs, including multi-stream delivery across development, integration, testing, and release teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with proven ability to drive execution in schedule-sensitive environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing risk, dependencies, and escalation management, along with excellent organizational, leadership, negotiation, and facilitation skills.

What's in it for me?

• Lead a high-impact, cross-functional modernization program that spans platform, middleware, applications, verification, and release readiness.
• Drive delivery governance and alignment across multiple engineering workstreams, helping teams stay synchronized on interfaces, deliverables, and integration points.
• Strengthen your program leadership by managing integrated plans, milestone readiness assessments, and schedule recovery when technical or delivery risks emerge.
• Build confidence through structured risk and issue management, dependency tracking, and proactive mitigation planning.
• Contribute to customer acceptance support by coordinating execution reviews and ensuring release qualification readiness.

Upon completion of waiting period consultants are eligible for:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account
• Health Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Business Travel Insurance
• 401(k), Plus Match
• Weekly Pay

About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells.

ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands - Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells - creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2023 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 14th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.

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