Technical Program Manager, Enterprise Connectivity Planning
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in program or project management.
- 5 years of experience in leadership roles with/without direct reports.
- Experience in network planning, architecture, or design with a technology or telecommunications company.
Preferred qualifications:
- 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience in cloud networking, DWDM, fiber, interconnect, peering, IP network planning, or an implementation role at an ISP, telecoms operator, carrier, or CDN.
- Experience incorporating the technical, commercial, and legal areas of cloud networking.
About the job
Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage various Engineering-specific programs and teams.
As a Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for the planning and coordination of transport networks, fiber, and co-location capacity for Google’s corporate enterprise network. You will also lead strategic discussions, technical configuration, planning of infrastructure, and manage technical/operational relationships with carriers, ISPs, and co-location providers.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.Ireland: €146000 - €150000 (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Create multi-year metro or region level network strategies to provide resilient connectivity meeting physical and logical requirements while balancing performance and cost.
- Create and present business cases for long-term investments.
- Communicate and engage with internal teams, including Deploy, Network Engineering, Service Delivery, Production, and Operations.
- Develop relationships and drive delivery with external vendors to engage on strategic initiatives and create an understanding of market conditions for each region.
- Oversee project and change management for projects, make organizational change happen effectively, and ensure lasting benefits of change are achieved.
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