Technical Program Manager

Overview

This is a remote 6 month contract with no possibility of extension. Must be in the PST time zone and able to work PST hours.

Our large Redmond, WA-based Technology company, is looking for a Technical Program Manager.  This role will contribute to running large scale projects across. One of the biggest requirements is for somebody who has experience working with large-scale products and does not mind interacting with large groups of people. Because we need inputs from across the org, we need to drive these initiatives across 150 service teams. Assisting in a couple of things, which in RNR team shorter incident management also being one of them.

Responsibilities:

• Interface with clients on technical and business issues from project initiation through delivery.
• Drive program/project schedules and status reports. 
• Create and/or review multiple functional specifications that will be used as tools in making decisions as to how the product or service will be implemented. 
• Provide Product Managers & Product Unit Managers with technical and/or analytical information.
• Organize cross functional activities ensuring the program/project is completed on schedule and within budget constraints.
• Work on P0 priority items – security networking, incident management
• Drive end-to-end program ownership: roadmaps, dependencies, risks, alignment.
• Building and landing governance frameworks and program operating rhythms.
• Comfortable with Ambiguity → Structure → Action.
• Excellent at coordinating eng + finance + PM + leadership.

Must Have Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience with Azure compute, storage, networking fundamentals
• 5-7 years of experience building and managing program roadmaps, dependency trackers, risk logs
• 5-7 years of experience analyzing cost trends, variances, and savings opportunities
• Most have ability to work with Cost/Perf dashboards, Metrics & Telemetry, Excel/PowerBI
• Comfortable creating data-backed narratives and identifying trends/risks.
• Experience with SRE, livesite processes, incident/root cause workflows.
• Familiarity with COGS modeling, Azure cost drivers, or cloud finance analytics.
• Understanding of AI agent orchestration or automation programs.
• Program management within M365, Azure, or platform-scale services.

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