Senior Technical Program Manager - HPC

Career Techniques; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Techniques is seeking a seasoned Technical Program Manager to own planning and execution across a portfolio of HPC engineering initiatives. You will develop integrated program plans with milestones, critical paths, and dependencies, coordinating Compute, Network, Storage, Kubernetes, and Data Center Ops teams.

You will escalate risks and drive governance, reporting to engineering and executive leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technical program management or similar role within a complex engineering and delivery organization.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent cross-functional technical programs.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure environments including compute, networking, storage, data centers, or large-scale infrastructure.
• Proven ability to manage dependencies, risks, and competing priorities.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication with senior engineering and business leaders.
• Ability to translate complex programs into clear plans, risks, decisions and executive reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own program planning and execution across a portfolio of HPC engineering and infrastructure initiatives.
• Develop and maintain integrated program plans, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, and delivery schedules.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities across Compute, Network, Storage, Kubernetes, Data Center Operations, capacity, and related teams.
• Identify program risks and delivery blockers early and drive mitigation and escalation.
• Establish clear program governance, operating rhythms, and accountability across workstreams.
• Provide concise portfolio-level status, risk, and milestone reporting to engineering and executive leadership.
• Facilitate cross-functional decisions and ensure actions, owners, and commitments are tracked.
• Partner with Delivery teams on major infrastructure, capacity, and facilities deployments.
• Continuously improve program management processes and tools to support scale and complexity of HPC portfolio.

Skills

Technical program management

Cross-functional coordination

Executive communication

Risk management

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Own program planning and execution across a portfolio of HPC engineering and infrastructure initiatives.
• Develop and maintain integrated program plans, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, and delivery schedules.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities across Compute, Network, Storage, Kubernetes, Data Center Operations, capacity, and related teams.
• Identify program risks and delivery blockers early and drive appropriate mitigation and escalation.
• Establish clear program governance, operating rhythms, and accountability across workstreams.
• Provide concise portfolio-level status, risk, and milestone reporting to engineering and executive leadership.
• Facilitate cross-functional decisions and ensure actions, owners, and commitments are clearly established and tracked.
• Partner with Delivery teams on major infrastructure, capacity, and facilities deployments.
• Continuously improve program management processes and tools to support the scale and complexity of the HPC portfolio.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ experience in technical program management, or a similar role within a complex engineering and delivery organization.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent, cross-functional technical programs.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure environments; experience with areas such as compute, networking, storage, Kubernetes, data centers, or large-scale infrastructure is preferred.
• Proven ability to manage complex dependencies, critical paths, risks, and competing priorities.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience working with senior engineering and business leaders.
• Ability to translate complex technical programs into clear plans, risks, decisions, and executive-level reporting.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities and a high degree of technical complexity.