Sr Technical Program Manager (Prisma)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager to support the Cloud Security organization. The Technical Program Manager will be responsible to drive highly visible cross functional initiatives, and ensure the program objectives are met and delivered on time. The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment where energy, drive, and a collaborative approach are key to success. 

 Your Impact

• Provide program management leadership for initiatives across the cloud security team

• Lead planning, execution, and delivery of large cross-functional initiatives

• Work with Operations, Product and Engineering stakeholders to identify & manage program/project dependencies & come up with an execution plan

• Be the expert on release life cycle process and champion process best practices, metrics and high quality standards with your delivery team

• Provide clear, concise, transparent, and insightful status reporting to the team, executives, and a diverse set of stakeholders

• Lead efforts to resolve key project conflicts and establish appropriate resolution paths

• Create a collaborative work environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, mastery, innovation and learning

• Understand the systems in their program space, the limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions, and reasons behind architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years relevant experience in Engineering Program Management in the related industry

• Strong technical acumen and ability to actively participate and contribute to technical design discussions

• Experience with agile/iterative development and program management methodologies

• Experienced in driving large cross-functional programs/initiatives

• Excellent communication, organization, and influence skills

• Ability to resolve conflicts and drive issues to resolution and escalate when necessary

• Understands and thrives in a dynamic environment; remains flexible and calm in the face of uncertainty

• An expert in communicating and collaborating with cross-functional team members to achieve goals; contributes positively to the team and organization

• Self-motivated and proactive with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities

• Proficient with applications, tools, and methodologies used to organize, manage, report progress, and deliver programs and projects 

• Self-starter who enjoys problem-solving with little direct supervision. Ability to learn quickly and just in time 

Education:

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Management, or equivalent work experience

Additional Information

The Team

The Team

Working at a high-tech cybersecurity company within Information Technology is a once in a lifetime opportunity. You’ll be joined with the brightest minds in technology, creating, building, and supporting tools that enable our Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Support teams on the front line of defense against cyberattacks. We’re joined together by one mission – and driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect ou