Your role and responsibilities
About the Role:As a Technical Program Manager in the engineering organization you will play a critical role in fulfilling the engineering vision to build, deliver, and operate highly scalable streaming infrastructure and the surrounding product ecosystem. You should be comfortable and experienced in driving and delivering highly complex projects on time leveraging data/AI based tooling and decision making. These projects will span across multiple teams, functions and geographies.
Tech in Texas! Austin is a Confluent early career engineering hub. Your role will be a hybrid working model that introduces you to Confluent's culture and enables faster learning, onboarding, and coaching.
What You Will Do:- Work with stakeholders to drive cross cutting and/or critical initiatives for the company.
- Drive process and tooling improvements
- Ensure that we are able to deliver projects on time.
- Proactively identify and resolve roadblocks/challenges affecting projects.
- Train and help other leaders to become better in program management.
- Scale the engineering groups in terms of their operations and programs with tooling and process improvements
- Make technical decisions to keep projects running on time.
- Work with Engineering, Product and Security leadership to streamline and drive our projects on a predictable schedule
- Run cross-functional meetings and drive decision making around schedule adjustments, bug triage and internal and external partner/customer delivery.
- Act as a communications liaison between technical and non-technical colleagues
- Lead technical design and architecture discussions across cross-functional teams
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Smart, humble, and empathetic
- Have a strong sense of teamwork and put team's and company's interests first
- Familiar with data analysis and AI tooling, SQL, automation skills
- Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative software startup environment and GSD!
Preferred technical and professional experience
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Front-End Development Skills: Exposure to designing, developing, testing, and delivering front-end components of software applications using leading-edge and/or proven technologies.
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DevOps Engineering Knowledge: Familiarity with DevOps engineering practices and tools, contributing to the development of automated CI/CD pipelines.
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L3 Support Engineering: Exposure to L3 support engineering, debugging customer-reported problems, and designing, developing, and unit testing code fixes.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILSIBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.
The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
