Technical Program Manager

Job Description

Position Details:

Client: Fortune 10

Role: Program Manager

Type: Contract

Location: Remote

Summary:

Interface with clients on technical and business issues from project initiation through delivery. Drive program/project schedules and status reports. Create and/or review multiple functional specifications that will be used as tools in making decisions as to how the product or service will be implemented. Provide Product Managers & Product Unit Managers with technical and/or analytical information. Organize cross functional activities ensuring the program/project is completed on schedule and within budget constraints.

Typical Day in the Role

• Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is to work on P0 priority items – security networking, incident management
• Key projects: This role will contribute to running projects across OPG. So the scale is large. One of the biggest requirements is for somebody who has experience working with large-scale products and does not mind interacting with large groups of people. Because we need inputs from across the org, we need to drive these initiatives across 150 service teams. Assisting in a couple of things, which in RNR team shorter incident management also being one of them.
• Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of 60% collaboration with outside teams 40% collab within the team.

Program/Execution Skills:

• Drives end-to-end program ownership: roadmaps, dependencies, risks, alignment.
• Skilled at building and landing governance frameworks and program operating rhythms.
• Comfortable with Ambiguity → Structure → Action.
• Excellent at coordinating eng + finance + PM + leadership.

What is the ideal background of a candidate for this role?

• Data & Analytical Skills
• Cost/perf dashboards
• Metrics & telemetry
• Excel/PowerBI (even if not heavy modeling)
• Experience with SRE, livesite processes, incident/root cause workflows.
• Familiarity with COGS modeling, Azure cost drivers, or cloud finance analytics.
• Understanding of AI agent orchestration or automation programs.
• Program management within M365, Azure, or platform-scale services.

Top 3 Must-Have HARD Skills & years of experience for each:

• Understanding of Azure compute, storage, networking fundamentals
• Expertise in building and managing program roadmaps, dependency trackers, risk logs
• Ability to analyze cost trends, variances, and savings opportunities