Sonar

Technical Program Manager

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Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Hybrid

Senior level

Cloud • Information Technology • Security • Software

Sonar is committed to enabling developers and organizations to build better code for better software.

The Role

As a Technical Program Manager, you will oversee IT Operations projects, ensuring successful delivery, collaboration across teams, and continuous improvement in processes and technology integration, focusing on security, scalability, and reliability.

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Who is Sonar?

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.

We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.

We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.

And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.

At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.

Why You Should Apply:

At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.

The Impact You Will Have:

We are still at the beginning of our growth journey, we are therefore putting in place new processes, technologies, and operating models on a continuous basis. Your role is pivotal as a part of the IT Ops team to manage the delivery of these projects, which vary from large-scale efforts like establishing global access control systems to implementing automated user provisioning processes and migrating cloud workloads to new providers.

You would be a member of a team that manages IT Operations across all our 6 offices: Austin (Texas US), Geneva (Switzerland), Bochum (Germany), London (UK) and Singapore. As a Technical Program Manager, you oversee the collective portfolio of IT Operations development projects, ensuring holistic visibility and alignment of priorities at the portfolio level.

What you will do daily

Act as the focus point for collaboration with business and technical teams to ensure delivery of world-class solutions with a focus on security, scalability, and reliability.
Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make intelligent compromises to balance the business needs against technical constraints.
Plan and manage multiple complex initiatives in parallel.
Use your technical expertise to identify and remove ambiguity in both the business need and technical plan.
Optimize technical resources for delivery of the business priorities.
Identify, assess, track, and mitigate issues and risks to the business initiatives at multiple levels.
Assists the teams with planning and prioritizing software development projects, providing expert knowledge and mentoring of project management methodology approaches, techniques, and tools.
Maintains an overall view of all work going on within the teams.
Communicate project issues and status in concise, accurate, and professional manner.
Continuously improve our best practices for solution delivery across multiple teams.
Build and maintain aggressive delivery schedules that account for multiple layers of dependencies, numerous constraints, and differing technical approaches.

The experience you will need

7+ years of progressively responsible experience in a technical software program management, PMO, and portfolio management experience
A background in DevOps engineering, especially as an SRE
Demonstrated ability to handle complicated, high-profile projects, including managing and driving resolution for technical problems
Passionate commitment to empowering teams meet delivery goals
Proven track record of influencing multiple levels of stakeholders
Highly organized with excellent verbal and written communication skills
Sense of ownership with a hands-on approach
Demonstrated success in leading and driving continuous improvement efforts
This could be a project to automate a repetitive task, improve incident response time, or streamline a troubleshooting process

Core Skills & Competencies

Understanding that the key to successful project management is strong relationships
Highly autonomous and pragmatic
Comfortable in dealing with change and complexity, actively seeks out and eradicates ambiguity
Self-confident enough to challenge the status quo as well as to receive feedback
Leadership: you take the initiative and demonstrate your ability to lead a subject from the beginning to the end
Ability to lead change of infrastructure and work with employees to adapt to change
Valuing "done" over "perfect"

Technical Expertise

System-Level Thinking: deep architectural views of how different systems and components interact with each other to provide a service to our internal customers. This is about seeing the "big picture" of the IT infrastructure, not just a single endpoint
Data Analysis: passion for analyzing available data and system metrics (e.g., using tools like Datadog, Splunk) to identify trends, pain points, and areas for improvement, then prioritize those. If you don’t have the logs for an answer, you know the person who does
Automation and Scripting: familiar with at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, PowerShell) to automate tasks, create diagnostic tools, and improve operational efficiency
Ability to develop project plans from ideas, then break those plans into manageable pieces, with clearly-defined and scoped milestones, risk registers, and oversee the delivery
Knowledge of scrum methodologies, agile project management, and release (program increment) scheduling techniques for DevOps teams

Leadership & Influence

Strategic Communication: Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership and customers
Proactive and Self-Driven: A self-starter who takes ownership of issues and actively seeks out opportunities to improve processes and prevent future problems
Consensus Building: The ability to lead and influence diverse technical solution teams, building consensus across multiple viewpoints and priorities. High judgement, maturity, negotiation skills, influence without authority, and analytical talent are essential to success

Why You Will Love It Here

Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.

Benefits of Working with Sonar:

Pension Scheme: 1st Pillar (Unterstützungskasse): Automatic, financed by Sonar, 3% of gross salary.
Pension Scheme:2nd Pillar (bAV): Voluntary, 15% contribution by Sonar from social security savings.
Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscription.
We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 28 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually. Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.

We Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.

We do not currently support visa candidates in the US.

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.

Top Skills

Agile Methodologies

Cloud Technologies

Datadog

DevOps

Powershell

Python

Splunk

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The Company

HQ: Geneva

597 Employees

Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Software-driven digital innovation is essential for competing in today's market, and the foundation of this innovation is code. However, there are widespread cracks in this foundation – lines of bad, insecure, and poorly written code – that manifests into tech debt, security incidents, and availability issues. With Sonar, developers and organizations are empowered to create quality, secure code confidently, whether written by humans or generated with AI.

The Sonar solution, SonarQube, helps prevent code quality and security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it—your internal team or genAI—resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable software.

At Sonar, we are driven by a deep belief in our people, a commitment to excellence, and an unwavering dedication to delivery. We operate as a united group where our collective success is the sum of each individual's contributions. Our company culture is driven by the values of CODE: Committed, Obsessed, Deliberate & Effective. This mindset reflects our culture of creativity, collaboration, and pride in the work we do.

Rooted in the open-source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by 7M+ developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.

Sonar is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with additional offices in Austin, Texas; Annecy, France; Bochum, Germany, London, England; and Singapore. The company is rapidly growing with over 600 employees!

Join us in our mission to solve the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code!

Why Work With Us

We are a product-first company, all while maintaining a people-first culture. Every employee has the opportunity to grow and learn. We promote from within, provide regular feedback and professional development opportunities, value the right to fail along with respect and kindness and work with team members to achieve their full potential.