Sr. Technical Program Manager

Sr Technical Program Manager

 

The IT Infrastructure Team is responsible for building / providing services and infrastructure that empower our employees to be successful. 

As a leader, you will be responsible for building a strong practice of delivery and execution of various projects to support the growth and scale the function globally as the company continues its hyper-growth. You will be a key member of the IT leadership team to promote best practices of technical program management. 

This position can be remote or local  and will report to the VP of Infrastructure

 

Outcomes: 

• Build and coordinate all aspects of a program, including: detailed project plans, resource allocations, risks/issues remediation, status reporting, budget management, and serve as the primary “go-to” person for project details.
• Maintain a deep, technical end-to-end understanding of the solution being built, its upstream/downstream dependencies and impacts, and the resulting customer journey experienced by our users.
• Lead multiple concurrent projects and programs varying in size/scope/complexity, spanning across several different teams and organizations.Identify and mitigate risks to execution by clarifying scope, removing blockers, and ensuring efficient communication between appropriate stakeholders
• Craft communications that can be consumed at different levels of the organization – from executive-level presentations, to materials consumed by engineering/security/Marketing/other teams.
• Proactively identify risks in all assigned areas; work with teams and management to mitigate these risks before they become issues.
• Develop your own well-informed point of view, and influence people at all levels: from front-line team members to VPs, SVPs, and C-level executives, communicating continuously with partners throughout the organization.
• Understand, surface, and articulate technical challenges. Navigate the team to the option that delivers the best customer experience.
• Continually pursue delivery excellence to ensure success, and ensure all team members clearly understand the goals, expectations, and success criteria. Uphold a culture of focus, delivery, and accountability across the organizatio

You are:

-Extremely organized with outstanding attention to detail; understand the who, what, when, how and why needed to drive outstanding solutions.

-Self-starter with extensive program management experience with large-scale initiatives. Background in PMO-best practices is a strong plus.

-Good understanding of cloud services, application hosting, operational practices & technical planning.

-Able to effectively modulate the presentation of information based on your audience: everyone from a C-level executive to an Individual Contributor.

-Experience leading broad programs across organizations in a matrixed, globally-diverse workforce.

-Experience using Agile/Scrum methodologies in an always-on, services-based infrastructure/architecture.

-Skilled at leading design and technical trade-off conversations to closure.

-Experience with applications such as Jira, or other backlog management tools and project management tools required .

At Databricks, we are passionate about helping data teams solve the world's most challenging problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision

• 401(k) Plan

• Equity awards

• Flexible time off

• Paid parental leave

• Family Planning

• Gym reimbursement

• Annual personal development fund

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 9,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow, Databricks is on a mission to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and