ABAKUS IT-SOLUTIONS - Your IT Comfort Expert!

The Senior Cloud Program Manager will be part of the delivery team that drives the development of private cloud solutions. With Technical skills to design and implement IT services, processes and tooling, the Sr. Technical Program Manager will define, design, drive changes and focus on high quality, on-time successful releases.
In this high-visibility and high business impact role the Sr. Technical Program Manager will build plans, identify and manage risks, ensuring quality and focusing on critical issues at the right time. The Sr. Technical Program Management makes sure the right features, experience, quality, schedule, continuity, service capability are delivered. 

Key Responsibilities:

The Senior Technical Program Manage provide the guidance on development and project management, cross-functional coordination, and inter/intra team communications to deliver outstanding program outcomes.

• Lead teams through transition from ideation to execution
• Define projects; requirements gathering, write detailed functional and test specifications, coordinate efforts to scope, schedule and deploy new feature sets
• Collaborate with development teams to build and launch new services, features and programs
• Work closely with engineers, QA, service owner and other teams to get high-quality solutions and features through the project lifecycle (build, test and release on time).
• Manage project schedules, identify possible issues and clearly communicate them to program/project stakeholders.
• Take responsibility for release schedules and milestones, keeping up a high velocity in a fast-paced environment.
• Lead program setting priorities for releases and solutions, lead the project team through each phase of the program.

Qualifications:

The Cloud Program Manager is able to work with cross-functional teams to establish and maintain roadmaps, setting appropriate expectations and insuring services meet high operational excellence standards, ability to think broadly and strategically on the direction of cloud-based solutions and make recommendations with fact based discussions and presentations. He/She has experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences, working on large cloud datacenter development and deployment with ambitious timelines and/or constrained resources.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years’ experience in a technical project or program management role
• Understanding of SDLC and modern development with services
• Experience and ability to understand multiple technologies and how they interact for the benefit of customers, delivered in a Cloud environment.
• Strong verbal/written communication skills are a must
• Judgement, maturity, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills and leadership skills
• Comfortable defining and executing complex program with intimate understanding of dependencies, critical paths, key and critical landmarks, and results.
• Service-oriented mind-set;
• Fluent in English (written and spoken) is essential;
• Any other European language is a plus.
• Knowledge of ITIL functions and processes;

Preferred Skills:

We are looking for an Expert with relevant domain experience within either core infrastructure & ideally virtualization and software defined infrastructure. Experience managing cloud development projects, leading and deploying on public and private cloud framework.
• Experience in enterprise cloud solutions (Azure, AWS, Etc.)
• Experience with IT service design
• Experience leading and deploying on public and private cloud framework;
• Familiar on Docker architecture, Kubernetes and Software engineering.