Technical Program Manager

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Position Overview

The Platform Services and Emerging Technologies (PSET) Technical Program Manager (TPM) role is an impactful role ensuring engineering teams achieve business outcomes. Our TPM works across the PSET domain areas to formulate and deliver technical solutions, is responsible for complex program and initiative delivery from planning through execution, including delivery forecasting, managing risks, dependencies, and alignment with stakeholders. In this role, you will engage with cross functional teams, with other Autodesk divisions or outside partners to drive key aspects of technical solutions, strategic planning, and address cross team dependencies and relationships.

As the ideal candidate, you possess solid technical expertise, the ability to influence your leaders and peers. You have a bias toward action, you are a champion for pursuing business outcomes as opposed to performing development activities, you are proactive in stakeholder management and establishing relationship with customers. You enjoy operating as 'equal partners' with engineering, Architects, Product Managers, Experience Designers and Product Owners. You are an Agile practitioner with deep expertise in supporting and enabling engineering teams.

You will report to Sr. Manager Technical Programs. This is a hybrid position in Pune.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate alignment between teams, functions, Divisions, and stakeholders. Drive alignment of cross organizations initiatives through OKR planning, dependency management and impediment removal. Demonstrate expert understanding and application of OKR practice value and principles by continuously refining guidance and process to facilitate team discussions.

• Manage Stakeholders and Communications. 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 engineering leadership and teams to build a clear delivery plan. During execution phase, where multiple cycles of sprints are tracked across several engineering teams, inspect, refine the plan, and communicate with 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 or Computer Science or a related field

• 7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams on highly complex initiatives involving multiple teams, using traditional and Agile methodologies

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

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

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

• 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

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