Senior TPM: Platform Tools & DevOps Programs

Optomi; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Optomi is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to drive planning and execution of developer-platform programs for internal engineers across the technology organization. The role partners with engineering managers to structure cross-org initiatives and requires strong technical literacy, autonomy, and the ability to manage multiple critical assignments.

Responsibilities span defining goals, removing roadblocks, tracking progress, and communicating risks.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing technical projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, developing and executing project plans and delivery commitments.
• Deep rooted passion and proven track record building motivated and collaborative teams.
• Detail oriented and excellent communication skills; ability to follow technical discussions and absorb technical documentation.
• Track record of creating and growing trusting, lasting professional relationships with diverse stakeholders, maturing team’s current engagements and advocating for future work.
• Experience in leading teams through improvement via process re-engineering.
• Demonstrated tenacity and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Experience working with distributed teams and/or distributed organizations.
• Experience as a scrum master and knowledge of agile methodologies.
• Tools expertise including Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence), Google Suite, and Slack/MS Teams or similar.

Responsibilities

• Effectively define and represent projects goals and plan; develop fundamental technical understanding of the project deliverables
• Enhance team throughput by removing roadblocks and leveraging organizational connections while helping to drive teams towards commitments
• Track progress against deliverables and work closely with the team to ensure on-time delivery
• Share concise and effective status information across multiple reporting formats to keep stakeholders informed and proactively communicate risks, forecasts, and dependencies.
• Facilitate technical and stakeholder meetings; follow the discussions in order to summarize and capture outcomes
• Foster cross-team coordination and communication
• Identify, maintain, and visualize metrics to guide the project lifecycle
• Assist with estimation and planning of team resourcing, in conjunction with engineering team manager
• Navigate competing and dynamic priorities, balance competing requests with agility
• 7+ years of experience managing technical projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, developing and executing project plans and delivery commitments.
• Deep rooted passion and proven track record building motivated and collaborative teams
• Detail oriented and excellent communication skills; ability to follow technical discussions and absorb technical documentation
• Track record of creating and growing trusting, lasting professional relationships with diverse stakeholders, maturing team’s current engagements and advocating for future work.
• Experience in leading teams through improvement via process re-engineering
• Demonstrated tenacity and comfortable with ambiguity
• Tools expertise including Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence), Google Suite, and Slack/MS Teams or similar
• Experience working with distributed teams and/or distributed organizations
• Experience as a scrum master and knowledge of agile methodologies

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Agile methodologies

Scrum Master

Communication skills

Distributed teams

Technical literacy

Proactive problem solving

Cloud development awareness

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Google Workspace

Slack / MS Teams

Job description

Optomi is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to drive planning and execution of developer-platform programs for internal engineers across the technology organization. The role partners with engineering managers to structure cross-org initiatives and requires strong technical literacy, autonomy, and the ability to manage multiple critical assignments.

Responsibilities span defining goals, removing roadblocks, tracking progress, and communicating risks.