Senior Lead TPM: AI-ready Network & Security Programs

Lumen; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 132,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Wellness program

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Technical Program Manager to join the Network Architecture and Engineering organization. In this highly visible role, you will lead complex programs that strengthen network security, modernize infrastructure, manage technology lifecycles, and advance engineering excellence across the enterprise.

You will translate sophisticated technical challenges into executable programs. Success requires broad network fluency, strong technical program leadership, and the ability

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible program management experience supporting complex technical, network, engineering, infrastructure, or transformation initiatives.
• Broad understanding of telecommunications networks, including hardware, software, infrastructure, planning, deployment, lifecycle management, and operations.
• Experience translating ambiguous technical or strategic objectives into executable plans, coordinated workstreams, governance models, and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the complex, high-impact network programs from early problem definition and strategy through implementation, stabilization, and operational handoff.
• Create integrated execution frameworks when scope, ownership, solution approach, funding, or sequencing is not yet fully defined.
• Orchestrate multiple programs or workstreams with enterprise dependencies, competing priorities, material risks, and senior leadership visibility.
• Establish governance, decision rights, operating rhythms, success measures, and executive review processes.
• Drive cross-domain sequencing and readiness across architecture, design, build, lab, test, change, deployment, service readiness, and operations.

Skills

Program management

Network security

Technical leadership

Communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Technical Program Manager to join the Network Architecture and Engineering organization. In this highly visible role, you will lead complex programs that strengthen network security, modernize infrastructure, manage technology lifecycles, and advance engineering excellence across the enterprise.

You will translate sophisticated technical challenges into executable programs. Success requires broad network fluency, strong technical program leadership, and the ability