Lead Technical Program Manager, Network Delivery
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in program management.
- 5 years of experience in leadership role with/without direct reports.
- Experience in technical program management.
- Experience in a people management or team leadership role.
- Experience in technical program management for network infrastructure delivery.
Preferred qualifications:
- 8 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
- Experience with network certifications such as PMP, Agile project management, BICSI RCDD, BICSI RTPM, CCDE, CCNP, or CCIE.
- Experience designing and facilitating the implementation of networking data centers or colocation facilities.
- Experience managing technical vendors and leading quarterly business reviews.
- Experience working in integrated teams composed of both technical and non-technical members.
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 focused on Enterprise Network Delivery, you'll work on the Google Enterprise Network team to ensure the security, reliability, scalability, and automation of one of the largest enterprise networks in the world. You will define priorities based on our Objectives and Key Results (OKR's) to drive network product development and life-cycle decisions. You will be working with Network Engineers, Software Engineers, and Operations teams to ensure new solutions meet Operational needs and drive out technical debt and design/deployment snowflakes. Technical Program Manager in Generative AI (GEN) solves testing problems relating to efficient scaling, security and high availability as Google continues to push the boundaries for innovative new technologies.The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.
Responsibilities
- Manage and drive the development and delivery of enterprise network engineering products while leveraging automation and software programs by coordinating with global delivery teams across the company to facilitate efficient network services to customers.
- Partner with Network Engineers, Software Engineers, and Project Managers to deliver large technical networking projects.
- Develop reports to track scope, schedule, budget, risks, and overall project status; coordinate with stakeholders to manage, track, and control project issues to ensure timely delivery.
- Work with management to design and launch new processes, institute process improvements, and ensure the efficient/reliable achievement of process objectives.
- Manage third-party vendors responsible for the monitoring and troubleshooting of network services, including facilitating any escalations requiring engineering assistance.
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