Senior Technical Program Manager (Engineering)
Databricks
P-1173
At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started. For more information, visit www.databricks.com.
We're building a team of passionate Technical Program Managers to create and guide processes across our Engineering organization. You'll cultivate and expand our relationships with the largest cloud computing providers and build the foundations for the Databricks customer experience. Your responsibilities will be to work with our engineering teams and cloud partners to ensure Databricks solutions are engineered for reliability, scalability, and security - all while keeping operations top of mind. You'll guide the direction of a cross-cloud program, set engineering goals and launch programs at scale. You'll be front and center of organizing controls, governance and standards across our infrastructure to achieve product stability and at least four nines of uptime. You'll be reporting to a Technical Program Leader working across multiple time-zones, dealing with high levels of ambiguity, seeing around corners to identify blockers, and ensuring needs are balanced against technical requirements.
What we look for:
- Atleast 7+ years of technical program management experience.
- 10+ years of industry experience
- Experience leading cross-functional teams to complete a full lifecycle of software development including concept, planning, design, execution, launch, and landing.
- Ability to facilitate conversations to prioritize, manage trade-offs, identify gaps and risks, drive accountability, and measure successes.
- Comfortable handling conflicts, escalations, and executive communication
- Track records in creating repeatable processes and influence adoptions in multiple teams or organizations
- Hands-on experience with at least one cloud provider: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Familiar with agile methodology in software development and program management tools such as Jira.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's or advanced technical degree.
- Experience in building cloud infrastructure and applications.
- Knowledge of SQL
- Previous hardware or software development experience is a plus
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Benefits
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