Would the chance to lead major technical programs, products, and solutions excite you?
Are you eager to work on fast-paced paced projects that impact a global technology leader?
Join the Program Management team in the Technology Group
The Program Management Team is on a mission to build and operate the world's most performant, efficient, and reliable planetary-scale platform. You will join a team of Technical program managers that lead complex technical programs that advance Akamai's Cloud Computing Technology.
Partner with the best
As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you'll work with our Technology Group by aligning goals with Engineering leadership and their teams. You will plan, communicate, execute, and deliver major programs, products, and solutions.
As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Leading end-to-end delivery of complex, high-visibility, multi-team technical programs
- Aligning efforts across engineering, product, and business leadership while balancing multiple priorities effectively.
- Developing successful partnerships with engineering, product and program stakeholders across the organization
- Identifying areas for process improvement, architecting and proposing solutions and implementing the change management
- Providing guidance and mentorship to technical program managers and engineers on effective execution practices.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5+ years' experience with Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, another related field or its equivalent.
- Demonstrate business expertise with capability to align program efforts with organizational strategy.
- Anticipate needs, identify gaps promptly, initiate actions to address gaps, resolve issues, solve problems, and eliminate obstacles effectively.
- Be extremely well-organized, details-oriented, motivated, and technically-oriented
- Have excellent and storytelling communication skills for both technical and executive audiences
- Demonstrate expertise in risk management, resolving problems, and effectively navigating uncertain situations.
- Utilize tools like Smartsheets, JIRA, Confluence, Aha, understand networking and cloud technologies, and quickly adapt to new technologies.
- Have familiarity with JQL and data analytic tools such as eazyBI and Tableau
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
