Lead Principal Technical Program Manager

Partners with senior management and stakeholders to align priorities and goals using technical know-how in a fundamental engineering area or technical domain. Establishes scope and milestones for each aspect of a technical program, aligning to the broader program plan and company strategies and goals, managing efforts between cross-functional teams to deliver programs or services. Shapes and leads technical programs and highly complex, cross-organizational initiatives impacting products and business. Drives the management of and responses to issues, bottlenecks, and risks, serving as a point of escalation for all issues. Shapes program improvement strategies, leveraging best practices to drive transformational change and optimize processes across multiple teams. Shapes technical program improvement strategies, leveraging best practices to drive transformational change and optimize processes across multiple teams. Shapes technical collaboration across multiple teams, ensuring alignment of priorities and program goals. Provides expert technical guidance to shape and direct the automation of comprehensive reporting, leading collaboration with development teams to drive innovations in reports, dashboards, forecasts, and models for long-term technical program execution. Shapes the strategic direction of collaboration efforts as a technical liaison across stakeholder teams for high-impact technical programs.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Management and Execution - Technical Management:

–         Leverages technical knowledge to identify risks, manage scope, estimate program timelines, request feasibility, testing requirements, and determine appropriate resources.

–         Designs and shapes the strategy for product or service delivery, ensuring alignment with the third party, security, export, and accessibility compliance requirements.

–         Integrates program demands and resourcing.

–         Leads rapid response to the most critical security escalations, coordinating across teams and departments and serving as the primary point of contact to executives to assess risk, determine comprehensive mitigation strategies, and ensure alignment and execution of the most effective path to resolution.

–         Leads the transformation and optimization of processes to ensure the highest reliability and resilience of products or services.

Technical Management and Execution - Technical Strategy and Execution:

–         Utilizes technical knowledge to identify and manage program dependencies and risks.

–         Supports rapid response to escalations, coordinating within team and communicating to senior team members to assess risk, determine mitigation strategies, and execute the optimal proposed path to resolution.

–         Shapes overall planning activities, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture.

–         Defines and enforces delivery standards and guidelines, ensuring security, scalability, and alignment with best practices.

–         Develops Line of Business (LOB) strategies for change management and/or incident response to enhance operational efficiency.

Program Oversight - Strategy and Decision-Making:

–         Leads the alignment of priorities with customers, service, and stakeholder teams through regular reporting to stakeholders and senior leadership.

–         Establishes scope and milestones, aligning to the broader program plan and company strategies and goals, managing efforts between cross-functional teams to deliver programs or services.

–         Leads efforts to define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and measurement methods for LOB performance.

–         Develops and communicates a comprehensive and strategic communication strategy of highly complex objectives to partners and customers.

Program Oversight - Program and Operations Management:

–         Shapes and leads both technical and non-technical programs and highly complex, cross-organizational programs impacting products and business.

–         Guides and