Technical Program Manager

Role: Technical Program Manager

Location: Mountain View, CA - Hybrid (3 days office, ~2 days remote

Contract role

Job description:
Top Skills:
1. PMP, ITIL, SAFe Release Train Engineer
2. Familiarity with platforms such as Cloud Health, Apptio, or comparable cloud financial management tools.
3. Experience with FinOps practices, cloud cost management, forecasting, and cost-allocation tools.
4. Familiarity with platforms such as Cloud Health
5. SDLC, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, version control, and release governance.
6. Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform

Release Management and Governance
• Own the end-to-end release lifecycle across assigned product and commercialization portfolios, including planning, scheduling, readiness, deployment, and rollout strategy.
• Build and maintain integrated release calendars, manage cross-team dependencies, and coordinate multiple release trains.
• Establish and enforce quality, compliance, and security gates, supported by accurate release documentation and communications.
• Identify, track, and mitigate release risks; maintain rollback and contingency plans for critical releases.
• Drive adoption and continuous improvement of automation, CI/CD tooling, and deployment pipelines.

Large-Scale Operational Programs
• Lead multi-quarter, cross-system initiatives such as branding updates, terminology harmonization, and technology refresh programs across engineering teams.
• Develop and maintain system inventories, migration trackers, roadmaps, dependency maps, and decision logs.
• Run program operating cadences, including status reviews, risk reviews, and stakeholder forums.
• Resolve cross-team risks and blockers, escalating issues with clear framing, impact assessment, and actionable options.
Cloud Cost and Financial Operations
• Partner with Engineering and Finance on cloud cost tracking, forecasting, allocation, and monthly variance reporting.
• Maintain cloud tagging and cost-allocation accuracy across accounts.
• Track cost-optimization initiatives through completion and quantify outcomes.
• Support recurring budget and financial review cadences with key stakeholders.

Business and Vendor Operations
• Maintain workforce rosters, headcount reporting, and hiring pipeline updates.
• Coordinate quarterly and annual product planning processes and operating mechanisms.
• Perform internal tools and process compliance checks and drive follow-up actions.
• Create and track purchase orders and statements of work for engineering contractors.
• Monitor contract terms, renewals, expirations, invoices, and discrepancies.
• Support vendor and contractor onboarding and offboarding activities.

Required Qualifications
• 10+ years of relevant experience, including substantial experience in enterprise release management and technical program delivery.
• Demonstrated success delivering complex, cross-functional, multi-team technical programs.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, version control, and release governance.
• Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong technical fluency with the ability to assess system-level dependencies and business impact.
• Proven ability to influence and drive execution across distributed teams without direct authority.
• Excellent stakeholder, executive, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong risk management, planning, reporting, data management, and documentation capabilities.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with business intelligence or reporting tools.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments with changing priorities.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with FinOps practices, cloud cost management, forecasting, and cost-allocation tools.
• Familiarity with platforms such as Cloud Health, Apptio, or comparable cloud financial management tools.
• Experience with procurement, purchase orders, statements of work, invoicing, and vendor operations.
• PMP, ITIL, SAFe Release Train Engineer, or similar certification.