Technical Program Manager

Movate; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology firm is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to oversee complex technical programs. This hybrid role involves working cross-functionally to ensure project execution aligns with business goals. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in managing software and platform initiatives, technical fluency, and strong organizational skills. Join us and help drive critical projects in a dynamic environment focused on delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Qualifications

• Over 14 years of experience in program management.
• Strong understanding of data flows and APIs.
• Experience with managing cross-team initiatives.
• Ability to handle ambiguity and facilitate technical decision‑making.

Responsibilities

• Drive complex cross-team technical programs.
• Define program objectives and build integrated roadmaps.
• Ensure operational excellence through readiness reviews.
• Drive release readiness, SLOs, incident reduction, and post‑launch validation.

Skills

Strong program management fundamentals

Technical fluency in system design concepts

Experience driving cross-team software programs

Ability to handle ambiguity

AI/ML exposure

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Job description

Role: Technical Project Manager / Technical Program Manager

Experience: 14–16 Years Work

Mode: Hybrid

Shift Timing: 2 PM – 11 PM

About the Company

Movate, formerly called CSS CORP, is a new age services company that harnesses the power of digital technologies to reimagine customer engagements. We enable businesses to anticipate and face disruptions effectively through our digital, technology and support services. We are a global customer experience and technology consulting services provider and a digital transformation partner of choice for its clients, which include the world’s top innovators across industries, from mid‑market players to large enterprises. We have a diverse team of over 11,500 customer‑centric thinkers, collaborators, and cocreators across 20 global locations.

About the Role

A Technical Program Manager drives complex, cross‑team technical programs that require deep coordination across KKR’s ADAPT engineering domains (AI, Data, Platform, Infrastructure, SRE, End User Computing). TPMs partner closely with engineering and product leadership to deliver initiatives where architecture, integration, reliability, performance, and technical trade‑offs are central to success. TPMs are expected to be technically fluent (able to understand system design, APIs, data flows, reliability constraints), while remaining primarily accountable for program execution, cross‑functional alignment, and outcomes. They will partner closely with technical leads to drive the technical implementation plans and roadmaps. TPMs must be able to work in a complex environment with matrixed teams and organizations. TPMs must provide project and program visibility to technical and business stakeholders around key projects, status, risks, and post‑launch metrics.

Responsibilities

• Scope and Typical Programs
• Multi‑team, multi‑quarter initiatives with significant dependencies and ambiguity
• New platform capability or shared service rollout (platform, infrastructure, SRE)
• Reliability and resiliency initiatives (SLOs, incident reduction, scaling, disaster recovery)
• Technical integration for newly acquired or merged companies
• Platform migrations and data center decommissioningn
• Program Strategy and Planning
• Define program objectives, success metrics, scope boundaries, and sequencing
• Build an integrated roadmap across teams and manage the critical path and trade‑offs
• Technical Coordination
• Translate business goals into technical milestones and engineering deliverables
• Drive integration plans across services, APIs, data contracts, and environments
• Ensure non‑functional requirements are planned, including reliability, scalability, security, privacy, cost, and observability
• Establish operating cadence across internal and dependent teams (working sessions, project reviews, milestone reviews, launch readiness, go/no‑go)
• Anticipate bottlenecks and negotiate sequencing and resourcing with engineering leaders
• Own RAID management and escalation with clear options and recommendations
• Release and Operational Readiness
• Drive launch plans, cutovers, feature flags, rollback strategies, and runbooks
• Partner with SRE and Infrastructure teams to ensure monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and on‑call readiness
• Stakeholder Management
• Align engineering, product or business, security or compliance, and operations teams
• Communicate progress and trade‑offs clearly to leadership and maintain a decision log
• A Technical Program Manager consistently:
• Drives cross‑team execution without relying on escalation as the primary lever
• Reduces ambiguity by creating clear charters, milestones, and dependency maps
• Understands sufficient technical detail to:
• Ask the right questions
• Surface integration risks early
• Identify missing work (such as telemetry, data backfills, disaster recovery, access controls)
• Anticipates and manages systemic risks such as migration complexity, reliability debt, and data quality
• Ensures operational excellence through readiness reviews, runbooks, SLOs, and post‑launch validation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field

Required Skills

• Strong program management fundamentals including project planning, dependency mapping, RAID management, and stakeholder management
• Technical fluency in system design concepts, APIs, data flows, environments, and CI/CD concepts
• Experience driving cross‑team software, platform, or infrastructure programs
• Ability to handle ambiguity and facilitate technical decision‑making

Preferred Skills

• Experience with AI/ML or data platforms
• Familiarity with SRE practices such as SLO, SLI, incident management, and observability
• Experience with large migrations, platform modernization, or reliability programs

Pay range and compensation package

Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.