Technical Program Manager — Release & Cloud Platform

Alten Technology USA; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

ALTEN Technology USA is seeking a Technical Program Manager to oversee release management and cloud‑gateway program management for vehicle software. You will blend executive reporting with day‑to‑day ticket execution, coordinating with engineering managers, developers, cloud partners, and PMO heads.

The role requires a technical background and hands‑on experience managing software releases, roadmaps, and data contracts, with a strong emphasis on cross‑functional collaboration and clear

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of technical program management on software products, with time spent on both release management and sprint‑level execution.
• Demonstrated ownership of a software release process: defining health metrics, tracking critical path items to closure, running daily status, and driving go/no‑go decisions.
• Experience running agile execution alongside an engineering manager, including backlog grooming and writing tickets that are genuinely actionable for developers.
• Working knowledge of client‑server and cloud integration patterns, with direct experience defining or governing data contracts and API interfaces between systems.
• Experience coordinating across partner teams and external vendors to close interface definitions, not just track them.
• Ability to enact clearly and early to executive stakeholders, with the judgment to know which risks belong at that level.
• Strong written communication, comfortable producing both a daily update and a long‑term roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Release management: Define metrics and report health of upcoming releases.
• Drive closure and provide daily updates for open tickets on the critical path.
• Escalate risks and decisions to the heads of PMO.
• Cloud TPM: Drive tactical sprint execution for the cloud‑gateway service.
• Ensure backlog grooming and actionable tickets for developers.
• Define and maintain a long‑term roadmap for cloud integrations.
• Finalize vehicle–cloud data contracts with cloud partners.
• Finalize cloud gateway interfaces with the vehicle.

Skills

Technical PM

Release mgmt

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder comms

Cloud integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Dashboard tools

Job description

ALTEN Technology USA is seeking a Technical Program Manager to oversee release management and cloud‑gateway program management for vehicle software. You will blend executive reporting with day‑to‑day ticket execution, coordinating with engineering managers, developers, cloud partners, and PMO heads.

The role requires a technical background and hands‑on experience managing software releases, roadmaps, and data contracts, with a strong emphasis on cross‑functional collaboration and clear