[Remote] Sr. Engineering Program Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rafay is a technology company working on GPU PaaS, Kubernetes, and foundational cloud and AI/ML technologies. The Senior Engineering Program Manager will lead complex, cross-functional engineering programs from concept through delivery, coordinating stakeholders, managing plans, risks, dependencies, and execution. The role also provides executive visibility, drives launch readiness, and improves engineering program-management practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end execution of large, technically complex engineering programs involving multiple teams and workstreams
- Develop and maintain integrated program plans, roadmaps, milestones, schedules, dependencies, and critical paths
- Partner with engineering and product leaders to define program scope, requirements, priorities, deliverables, and success criteria
- Drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Product, Architecture, Operations, Quality, Security, and other stakeholder organizations
- Identify technical, schedule, resource, and organizational risks early and drive mitigation and contingency plans
- Facilitate technical reviews, requirements discussions, planning sessions, program reviews, and executive decision-making
- Track execution against commitments and proactively resolve blockers, dependencies, and conflicting priorities
- Establish effective program governance, operating rhythms, status reporting, escalation mechanisms, and decision frameworks
- Translate complex engineering issues into clear business impacts, options, trade-offs, and recommendations
- Provide concise program updates to directors, VPs, and executive stakeholders
- Partner with engineering leadership on resource planning, capacity constraints, sequencing, and prioritization
- Define and monitor program KPIs covering schedule, quality, execution, readiness, risk, and business outcomes
- Drive launch/readiness activities and ensure appropriate validation, operational readiness, and stakeholder sign-offs
- Lead retrospectives and implement improvements to engineering planning and execution processes
- Mentor program managers and contribute to improving program-management standards, tools, and best practices across the organization
- Influence teams and senior stakeholders effectively without relying on direct reporting authority
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- • 8+ years of experience in Engineering Program Management, Technical Program Management, Product Development, Engineering, or a related field
- • Demonstrated experience leading large-scale, cross-functional engineering programs with multiple dependencies and stakeholder organizations
- • Strong understanding of the software and/or hardware product development lifecycle
- • Ability to understand system architecture, engineering designs, technical dependencies, and development trade-offs
- • Proven ability to develop program plans and drive teams against milestones and measurable outcomes
- • Strong risk, dependency, issue, and change-management capabilities
- • Experience working with Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid development methodologies
Benefits
- Opportunities to advance professional careers in advanced technology development
- A fun and dynamic work environment
- Robust benefits
- Attractive stock options
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