Technical Program Manager

Simplify Alpha; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Simplify Alpha is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to lead delivery across engineering, data/BI, and DevOps for our health plan technology platform. You will own the program plan, translate customer and business requirements into technical direction, and track multiple workstreams across onshore/offshore teams with an AI-first mindset.

You will ensure delivery quality, compliance, and security, including health-domain considerations, while mentoring engineering leads on program

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field required; PMP/PMI-ACP/CSM/SAFe certification is a plus.
• 12–15 years of experience in technical program or project management for multi-team software programs.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and cloud architecture concepts.
• Experience coordinating distributed onshore/offshore delivery teams.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into actionable technical direction.
• Excellent communication with senior stakeholders and clients.
• AI-first mindset with hands-on familiarity with AI coding/assistant tools.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program delivery across software, data/BI, and DevOps teams.
• Partner with customers and stakeholders to understand business priorities and success criteria.
• Translate requirements into epics and stories with shared understanding across teams.
• Maintain detailed program plans, RAID logs, and status reporting.
• Drive Agile/Scrum/Kanban governance across distributed teams.
• Champion AI-first engineering practices across all solutions delivered.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI and automation to accelerate delivery.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and resolve blockers.
• Communicate status to executives and steering committees.
• Align technical roadmaps with business priorities with architects.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder management

Agile/Scrum/Kanban

AI-first mindset

Distributed teams coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/related field

PMP/PMI-ACP/CSM/SAFe certification

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

MS Project

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Power BI

IBM Message Broker/ACE

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program andproject delivery across engineering teams spanning software engineering,data/BI & integration engineering, and DevOps/cloud 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
• 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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