Uber Sr Technical Program Manager 

United States, West Virginia 

650428052

1. Leading all aspects of project progress, resolving dependencies, evaluating risks, and communicating status to upper management and project team members.
2. Engaging and energizing your teams to achieve goals.
3. Proactively removing obstacles to drive momentum, progress, and results.
4. Identifying communication gaps, managing issues, team concerns, and providing support to teams balancing opposing priorities.
5. Contributing to the management of the multi-functional strategic planning and business planning process, leading conversations with key team members to develop concepts for strategic initiatives, and developing those into detailed program / project plans (including roadmaps, funding planning, resource planning and hiring goals).
6. Implementing continuous improvements to the engineering organization and the program management process.
7. Share program/project process frameworks, tools, and standard methodologies that can be adopted throughout the organization.

What you'll need

1. Proven track record as a TPM, Engineering Manager, and/or Architect in a software, SaaS, or systems development environment.
2. Technical proficiency with an ability to understand technical architecture, challenges, risks, and propose alternatives.
3. Strong experience in one or more large-scale distributed systems and/or Core Infrastructure systems, such as:
4. Online storage and database systems (SQL and No-SQL)
5. Search systems
6. Data Lake ecosystems (e.g., large-scale Data Analytics using object storage, YARN/Kubernetes, Spark, Presto, etc.)
7. Foundational control planes like Kubernetes
8. Technical degree in computer science or related field.
9. Key TPM skills such as:
10. Proven cross-team and cross-org program management.
11. Metrics driven: experience determining effective program KPI’s and using them to measure program success and issues.
12. Strong organizational skills to prioritize tasks without losing sight of the highest priority items.
13. Identifying process gaps, measuring progress, and balancing engineering and product efficiency with process overhead.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience as a developer which includes writing, testing, and deploying code.

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