Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.
Role OverviewOur team is looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to drive the strategy, execution, and delivery of complex, large-scale technical initiatives. In this role, you will be responsible for planning and overseeing high-impact engineering projects, ensuring they are architecturally sound, scalable, and completed within scope and budget. You will bridge the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders, optimizing resource allocation, managing technical dependencies, and fostering an environment of continuous improvement and engineering excellence.Roles and Responsibilities- Define Technical Scope: Determine, define, and align technical project scope, architectural boundaries, and strategic objectives across cross-functional engineering and product teams.
- Budget & Cost Optimization: Prepare and manage budgets based on technical scope, infrastructure overhead, and resource requirements, ensuring a strong focus on cost efficiency (e.g., Cloud cost management).
- Technical Roadmap & Schedule: Develop, manage, and maintain detailed technical project schedules, milestone maps, and cross-team dependency matrixes.
- Stakeholder Sync & Architecture Governance: Provide consistent, data-driven updates to technical and non-technical stakeholders regarding delivery strategy, risk mitigation, technical debt adjustments, and overall progress.
- Tech Stack & Methodology Leadership: Utilize industry best practices, DevOps cultures, and modern software development lifecycles (SDLC) / Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) throughout execution.
- Risk & Dependency Management: Proactively monitor system dependencies, technical risks, and critical paths; pivot engineering efforts dynamically as priorities evolve.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience
- Degree in relevant field
- Impeccable oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful
- Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline
- Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
- Ability to work under tight deadlines
- Proven ability to solve problems creatively
- Excellent analytical skills
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification a plus
We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as your application progresses.
Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role will proceed in the selection process.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is expansive, with five weeks of PTO from day one, eight paid holidays, floating holidays, and a companywide year‑end break. Paid volunteer time further broadens available leave.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave provides 12 weeks fully paid for birth or adoption, complemented by generous bereavement leave up to 15 paid days. Disability coverage and dependent eligibility to age 26 reinforce family support.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a strong company match underpins long‑term savings. This foundation strengthens overall financial security alongside core benefits.
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We are a software and technology company that powers the global travel industry. With decades of revolutionary firsts, our team of experts drive innovation and ingenuity in the industry. Today, we are creating a new marketplace for personalized travel. We partner with airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other travel partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel. We are committed to helping customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences with next-generation technology solutions. Positioned at the center of the business of travel, our platform connects people with experiences that matter in their lives. Sabre's technology powers the nearly US$8 trillion travel industry. Our technology and data-driven solutions help our airline, hotel, travel agency and corporate customers grow their businesses and transform the traveler experience. The scale, breadth and depth of our technology is unmatched and sustains a complex industry. We provide an open and stable platform to deliver flexible, reliable and scalable solutions. Over the years, we have shaped and modernized the travel industry. We pioneered online travel agencies, corporate booking tools, revenue management, and web and mobile itinerary tools, to name a few. Our travel marketplace transacts more than US$120 billion of travel spend per year. And we are the world’s largest provider of airline and hotel technology. We have been named to the InformationWeek 500 list of the most innovative technology companies for 11 consecutive years. And InformationWeek named Sabre seventh on its list of the “Greatest Software Ever Written.”
