Technical Program Manager, Federal Government, Google Cloud

Google; Canberra; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Australia is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead complex, multi-disciplinary programs across private cloud services in Australia. You will plan requirements, coordinate schedules, manage risks, and communicate with cross-functional partners, including executives and engineers.

The role emphasizes driving consistency, efficiency and long-term objectives in a collaborative environment. The ideal candidate has a technical degree, 5 years of program management experience, strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of program management experience.
• 5 years cross-functional project management experience.
• Experience managing technology rollout programs for critical systems.
• Experience with external third party dependencies.
• Experience with program hardware and software management including configuration control.
• Experience in product management and product support.
• Excellent stakeholder management, follow-through and accountability, resourcefulness, attention to detail, and verbal and written communication skills.
• Current and active Australian Government Security Vetting Agency (AGSVA) clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish.
• Plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate with cross-functional partners across the company.
• Explain analyses and tradeoffs to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.
• Deploy and operate private cloud services for critical customers in Australia.
• Drive planning, communications, execution, continuous improvement, and change management to maximize efficiency and impact.
• Break down programs into components that can be executed by team members.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Security clearance (AGSVA)

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Job description

At Google, we have a vision of empowerment and equitable opportunity for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to building reconciliation through Google’s technology, platforms and people and we welcome Indigenous applicants. Please see our Reconciliation Action Plan for more information.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience with managing technology rollout programs for critical systems or services.
• Experience with managing external third party dependencies. Experience with managing program hardware and software management including configuration control and management.
• Experience in product management and product support.
• Excellent stakeholder management, follow-through and accountability, resourcefulness, attention to detail, and verbal and written communication skills.
• Current and active Australian Government Security Vetting Agency (AGSVA) clearance.

About The Job

A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross‑functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will be part of a team that deploys and operates our private cloud services for critical customers in Australia. Working collaboratively, you will navigate through ambiguity to define and guide cross‑functional programs in large work groups that span multiple teams and stakeholder groups. Your role will play a big role in seeing the “bigger picture”, and guiding long‑term objectives as well as near‑to‑near be helping.

Driving consistency, efficiency, and economies of scale within your work scope you will manage activities to maximize operational and capability returns.

You will deliver planning, communications, execution, continuous improvement, organizational change, stakeholder management skills and be able to apply these skills in difficult situations. You will break down programs and processes into components that could be executed by less executive team members.

Responsibilities

• Manage the outcomes of technical teams through the whole life cycle of private/secure infrastructure from inception and design, to qualification and validation, through deployment, operation and optimization.
• Manage multi-year deliverables that will be within a larger program of work and associated dependencies.
• Deliver high-quality work aligned to team goals in a timely and efficient manner.
• Communicate clearly and share relevant information. Identify shared or conflicting goals and find ways to increase alignment to arrive at the best collective outcome.
• Manage schedule, risks, issues and dependencies within the scope of work and integrate with broader program.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .