[Remote] [Confluent] Senior Technical Program Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IBM Software transforms client challenges into solutions and is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to coordinate multiple Kafka initiatives across various teams and stakeholders. The role involves managing dependencies, driving planning, prioritization, and ensuring successful project delivery.
Responsibilities
- Partner with stakeholders to drive cross-functional and business-critical initiatives
- Ensure successful project delivery through proactive communication of progress, risks, and status to key stakeholders
- Identify and resolve roadblocks and challenges that could impact project outcomes
- Support technical decision-making to keep projects moving forward efficiently
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and Security leadership to streamline execution and maintain predictable delivery schedules
- Lead cross-functional meetings and facilitate decisions related to schedules, bug triage, and internal and external customer deliverables
- Drive end-to-end execution by partnering with engineering and product stakeholders, identifying risks, managing dependencies, and aligning competing priorities
- Help Kafka teams understand the priorities and dependencies of upstream and downstream partner teams to unblock roadmap execution and accelerate delivery
Skills
- Minimum of 4 years of Technical Program Management experience, with a proven track record of driving the end-to-end lifecycle of large, complex, cross-functional programs
- Experience with JIRA, BigQuery, and Google Apps Script
- Strong technical foundation, particularly in cloud networking and cloud infrastructure fundamentals
- Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to leverage data to identify insights, trends, and opportunities that help engineering teams make informed decisions
- Experience leading cross-functional cloud platform engineering initiatives is highly desirable
- Experience driving operational excellence across teams and developing dashboards and reporting solutions is a strong plus
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively partner with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working in highly agile environments, including the use of JIRA reporting, sprint planning, and program tracking, is preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Familiarity with the Confluent Platform or Apache Kafka
- Experience building dashboards and reports using JQL, SQL, BigQuery, or Data Studio
- Background working with or within an SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure organization
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