Senior Technical Project Manager

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Healthcare benefits

RRSP

ESPP

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead end-to-end engagements with Fortune 500 clients, guiding architecture assessments, integration approaches, and project delivery on the Akamai platform.

The role blends consultancy, technical oversight, and customer advocacy in a global Professional Services context. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage complex web solutions, and drive successful outcomes while maintaining strong client

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in technical project management.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Customer-facing role experience in IT.
• Experience delivering large technical customer projects.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies and web technologies (HTTP, DNS).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with an integrated accounts team to evaluate customer web architecture and deliver optimal integration.
• Ensure success through best-practice guidance and develop long-term performance and security strategies.
• Partner with business teams to review integration efficiency and maintain high-quality service.
• Contribute to internal projects to improve methodologies and integration quality.

Skills

Customer-facing

Project management

Web technologies

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

HTTP

DNS

Job description

Job Description

Would you like to work with cutting-edge technology?

Would providing consultancy to global brands excite you?

Join our prestigious Professional Services team

Our Professional Services team helps to accelerate and protect the websites and digital experiences of some of the worlds largest Fortune 500 clients by bringing them onto the Akamai platform. As a customer-facing team, we provide thought leadership, consulting, and technical support through designing high-quality web solutions and customer advocacy.

Job Description

Would you like to work with cutting-edge technology?

Would providing consultancy to global brands excite you?

Join our prestigious Professional Services team

Our Professional Services team helps to accelerate and protect the websites and digital experiences of some of the worlds largest Fortune 500 clients by bringing them onto the Akamai platform. As a customer-facing team, we provide thought leadership, consulting, and technical support through designing high-quality web solutions and customer advocacy.

Partner with the best

You’ll be an end-to-end trusted advisor to our customers. Managing their engagement and technical solutions with our platform. Build close relationships with customers and creatively tackle some of the biggest challenges on the internet.

As a Senior Technical Project Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Collaborating closely with an integrated accounts team to evaluate customer web architecture, delivering the best integration solution
• Ensuring success through best practice guidance and to develop a long-term customer web performance and security strategy
• Partnering with the business to review and ensure integration efficiency, deliver high-quality service and foster customer relationships
• Participating on internal projects to contribute to best practices, improving our methodology and quality of integration

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
• Demonstrate experience in a customer-facing role within the Information Technology industry
• Show experience of managing and delivering large technical customer projects successfully
• Have experience in project management methodologies, web technologies, and languages such as HTTP or DNS
• Have excellent communication and presentation skills to articulate highly technical information in a clear and comprehensive manner

About Us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our Focus Is Simple

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai:

We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 109,900 - 197,700 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.