Technical Program Manager

About the role

Employer: (0147) International Business Machines Corporation

About the Role:

As a Technical Program Manager in the engineering organization you will play a critical role in fulfilling the engineering vision to build, deliver, and operate highly scalable streaming infrastructure and the surrounding product ecosystem. You should be comfortable and experienced in driving and delivering highly complex projects on time leveraging data/AI based tooling and decision making. These projects will span across multiple teams, functions and geographies.

Tech in Texas! Austin is a Confluent early career engineering hub. Your role will be a hybrid working model that introduces you to Confluent's culture and enables faster learning, onboarding, and coaching.

What You Will Do:

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Work with stakeholders to drive cross cutting and/or critical initiatives for the company.
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Drive process and tooling improvements
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Ensure that we are able to deliver projects on time.
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Proactively identify and resolve roadblocks/challenges affecting projects.
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Train and help other leaders to become better in program management.
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Scale the engineering groups in terms of their operations and programs with tooling and process improvements
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Make technical decisions to keep projects running on time.
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Work with Engineering, Product and Security leadership to streamline and drive our projects on a predictable schedule
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Run cross-functional meetings and drive decision making around schedule adjustments, bug triage and internal and external partner/customer delivery.
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Act as a communications liaison between technical and non-technical colleagues
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Lead technical design and architecture discussions across cross-functional teams