Technical Program Manager

Simplify Alpha; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,200,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Simplify Alpha is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead delivery across software, data/BI, and DevOps teams in health plan technology. You will own the program plan, translate business requirements into technical direction, and drive AI‑first delivery across onshore and offshore teams.

You will partner with stakeholders to define priorities, manage risks, and guide architecture alignment while ensuring quality and HIPAA‑aware practices are embedded in every solution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• 12–15 years of technical program or project management experience delivering multi‑team software programs.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and cloud architecture fundamentals.
• Experience coordinating distributed software, data/BI, and DevOps teams.
• Proficiency with Agile/Scrum/Kanban tools (JIRA, Confluence, MS Projects) and tracking plans.

Responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end program and project delivery across software, data/BI, and DevOps teams.
• Partner with customers and stakeholders to translate priorities into clear technical direction.
• Translate requirements into epics and stories for product, architecture, and delivery teams.
• Maintain detailed program plans, RAID logs, and status reporting across all workstreams.
• Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and delivery governance across onshore/offshore teams.
• Drive AI‑first practices across teams, including AI tooling adoption and governance.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI/automation to accelerate delivery and reduce costs.
• Manage cross‑team dependencies and proactively remove blockers.
• Communicate with executives through status updates and risk/issue management.
• Align technical roadmaps with business priorities and ensure security/ HIPAA concerns are embedded.

Skills

Program Mgmt

AI-First

Stakeholder Mgmt

Agile/Scrum

Cloud Architecture

Distributed Systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Eng/related

Tools

Go

Python

Node.js

AWS EKS

OpenShift

Terraform

CI/CD

AWS Glue

Power BI

Message Broker

Job description

Job Description:

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to lead delivery across the engineering teams supporting our health plan technology platform, spanning software engineering (Junior through Architect levels, working in Go, Python, Node.js, and AWS-based distributed systems), Data & Integration Engineering (AWS Glue, Power BI, Message Broker/ACE), and DevOps & Cloud Engineering (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS/OpenShift). This is a techno-functional leadership role: you will own the program plan, translate customer and business requirements into clear technical direction, and track delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams and onshore/offshore teams. Just as important, you will be the driving force behind an AI-first mindset across every team and every solution, setting the expectation that AI-assisted engineering is the default way of working, not an exception.

• Own end-to-end program andproject delivery across engineering teams spanning software engineering,data/BI & integration engineering
• Partner directly with customerand business stakeholders to understand business priorities, constraints, andsuccess criteria within the health insurance/payer domain
• Translate business and customerrequirements into clear technical requirements, epics, and stories, ensuringshared understanding across product, architecture, and delivery teams
• Build, maintain, and trackdetailed program plans, schedules, dependencies, RAID logs, and statusreporting across all workstreams
• Drive sprint/iterationplanning, backlog grooming, and delivery governance (Agile/Scrum/Kanban) acrossdistributed onshore/offshore teams
• Champion and drive an AI-firstengineering mindset across all teams, ensuring AI-assisted coding, testing,documentation, and operations practices are adopted consistently across everysolution delivered
• Identify opportunities to applyAI and automation to accelerate delivery, improve quality, or reduceoperational cost, and drive adoption plans together with engineering andarchitecture leads
• Manage cross-team dependenciesacross software engineering, data/BI/integration, and DevOps/cloud engineeringroles, proactively resolving blockers
• Own stakeholder communication:executive status updates, steering committee reporting, and risk/issueescalation
• Partner with architects ontechnical roadmap alignment with business priorities
• Ensure delivery quality,compliance, and security requirements, including HIPAA-aware practices, areembedded into program execution
• Mentor and guide engineeringleads on program management fundamentals and on driving AI-first deliverywithin their teams

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field; PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or SAFe certification is a plus
• 12–15 years of experience in technical program or project management, including delivery of complex,multi-team software engineering programs
• Strong working knowledge of AWSservices and cloud architecture concepts, sufficient to engage credibly withengineering and architecture teams on technical trade-offs
• Proven experience managing programs spanning distributed systems/backend engineering, data engineering/BI, and DevOps/cloud engineering disciplines
• Strong command ofprogram/project management tools and methodologies (Agile/Scrum/Kanban, JIRA,Confluence, MS Project, or similar), including building and tracking projectplans, RAID logs, and status reports
• Demonstrated ability tounderstand customer and business context and translate business requirementsinto actionable technical direction for engineering teams
• Strong analytical andproblem-solving skills to track progress, surface risks early, and driveresolution across multiple concurrent workstreams
• Strong verbal and writtencommunication skills, including experience presenting to senior stakeholdersand clients
• Experience managing andcoordinating distributed onshore/offshore delivery teams
• Strong stakeholder managementskills across business, engineering, and executive audiences

AI-First Leadership (Required)

• A genuine AI-first mindset: able to identify, champion, and drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices (AI coding assistants, agentic workflows, AI-assisted testing and documentation) across every team and every solution under their management
• Practical, hands-on familiarity with AI coding/assistant tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar), sufficient to credibly set expectations and coach teams on effective, responsible usage
• Able to define and track AI-adoption goals and metrics across engineering teams (e.g., proportion of AI-assisted work, cycle-time improvement, quality impact) as part of program governance
• Understanding of responsible and compliant AI usage in a health-insurance context, including data-privacy safeguards such as never exposing PHI or sensitive member/client data to external AI tools, and the ability to enforce these standards across teams
• Able to evaluate where AI can be applied across the full solution lifecycle, requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, documentation, and operations, and build these expectations into program plans
• Comfortable partnering with architects and engineering leads to embed AI-first practices into technical roadmaps and solution designs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the US health insurance or payer domain: claims, eligibility, enrollment, provider/member data, and HIPAA-aware program delivery
• Experience managing programs supporting health plan clients in a consulting or professional services environment
• Familiarity with the specific technologies used by the teams under management: Go, Python, Node.js, AWSEKS/OpenShift, AWS Glue, Power BI, IBM Message Broker/ACE, and cloud DevOps tool chains (Terraform, CI/CD)
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate)
• Experience establishing AI governance frameworks or an AI center-of-excellence function within an engineering organization

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