Senior Technical Program Manager

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Position Overview

The Data & Process Management (DPM) Technical Program Manager (TPM) role is a critical role, ensuring engineering and business teams achieve strategic outcomes.

Our TPM is accountable for driving the project across all phases - roadmap execution, dependency tracking, and overseeing progress through all phases, ensuring all functional areas deliver on their responsibilities.

You will be responsible for complex program and initiative delivery from planning through execution, including project planning, delivery forecasting, managing risks, dependencies, alignment with stakeholders, and collaborating with different roles to deliver on business value.

In this role, you will engage with cross-functional teams, with other Autodesk divisions and/or outside partners/stakeholders to drive key aspects of business and technical solutions, and strategic planning, and address cross-team dependencies and relationships.

This position is based in Bengaluru with a hybrid model (1-2 times per week at the office)

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be doing the following:

• Facilitate alignment between teams, functions, Divisions, and stakeholders. Drive alignment of cross organizations initiatives through project planning, dependency management and impediment removal.

• Demonstrate expert understanding and execution of the project across all phases.

• Work with other TPMs in the team to identify areas for improvement on our practices and processes.

• Manage Stakeholders and Communications. Work with key stakeholders from executive teams, architects, and product management to shape strategy and requirements. Serve as communication focal point on complex programs & initiatives, with other Autodesk teams and divisions leadership. Provide both executive and team level status reporting on initiative status, risks, and achievements.

• Plan and ensure delivery. Engage with product and engineering leadership and teams to build a clear project delivery plan. During execution phase, where multiple cycles of sprints are tracked across several engineering teams, inspect, continuously refine the plan, and communicate regularly to stakeholders about progress against goals.

• Focus on impediment removal by supporting engineering teams with exception handling.

• Drive risk identification and mitigation analysis to address potential roadblocks, reduce waste, optimize delivery, and improve team satisfaction on the delivery process. Lead cross-functional development team efforts on providing technical solutions from design through delivery. Drive automation of delivery processes that span across the design, development, and operations to create transparency and a single source of truth.

• Be an agent of change. Drive continuous improvement and our science based, Kaizen culture by leading changes through retrospectives and "lessons learned".

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering discipline, Computer Science, Business Administration or a related field

• 5+ years of experience working directly with engineering and product teams on highly complex initiatives involving multiple teams, in a fast-paced environment, using traditional and Agile methodologies

• 3+ years of experience as a technical Program Manager, Product Manager, Software Architect, Product Owner or similar role

• Demonstrable knowledge in systems/cloud services, and cloud platform (APIs, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

• Strong technical background and aptitude, detailed driven and have excellent problem-solving abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively with a broad audience

• Zeal for process and operational excellence

• Desire to continue to learn and challenge yourself

• Outstanding relationship-building, and influencing skills

• Ability to leverage technical tools to scale programs and solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field

• Experience working in large-scale, enterprise SaaS or platform organizations

• Proven experience managing data platforms, data governance, data pipelines, or process management initiatives

• Strong understanding of Agile at scale (SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale) and hybrid delivery models

• Hands-on experience with program management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Aha!, Smartsheet, or similar

• Experience driving cross-division initiatives involving globally distributed teams

• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational excellence metrics

• Experience working with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and distributed systems

• Demonstrated success influencing without authority and driving alignment across senior leadership

• Prior experience in automation, process optimization, or building delivery dashboards and metrics

• Exposure to change management, organizational transformation, or continuous improvement (Lean / Kaizen) initiatives

The Ideal Candidate

You possess robust program and project management skills, solid business acumen, and robust technical expertise, including the ability to impart a sense of urgency, and influence your leaders and peers.

You demonstrate strong bias for action, you drive progress over perfection, you inspire optimism and you don’t let laggards rule – you strive for delivery of business value to our customers. You celebrate, and amplify, success, and are strive to be a model for efficient decision-making and action. You value organization and coordination, and putting together a project plan, keeping it up-to-date, and constantly asking you and others “are we on the track?”

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