TPM, Release Management and Cloud Platform
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Palo Alto, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Were ALTEN Technology USA an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to lifefrom advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3000 experts across North America we partner with leading companies in aerospace medical devices robotics automotive commercial vehicles EVs rail and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group57000 engineers in 30 countrieswe deliver across the entire product development cycle from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA youll collaborate on some of the worlds toughest engineering challenges supported by mentorship career growth opportunities and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued supported and inspired to grow.
Workplace: On-site Monday-Thursday. REMOTE on Friday.
Location: Palo Alto CA
We are hiring a Technical Program Manager to cover two areas of operation in a single seat. Roughly half the role is release management across upcoming infotainment software releases owning the metrics and the daily drumbeat that keep a release on schedule and escalating what needs a decision. The other half is hands-on technical program management for the cloud-gateway service on the vehicle software team driving sprint execution and owning the roadmap and the interface agreements that connect the vehicle to the cloud.
This is a role for a TPM who is comfortable moving between executive-level reporting and day-to-day ticket-level execution in the same week. You will work directly with engineering managers developers cloud partners middleware partners and the heads of PMO.
Responsibilities
Release management
- Define and report on metrics that highlight the health of upcoming software releases
- Drive closure and provide daily updates for open tickets that are on the critical path for upcoming software releases
- Escalate risks and decisions needed to the heads of PMO
Cloud technical program management
- Drive tactical sprint execution for the cloud-gateway service on the vehicle software team
- Work with the engineering manager and developers to ensure a steady flow of actionable tickets are groomed and ready for implementation
- Define and maintain a long-term roadmap for the cloud relevant integrations
- Work with cloud partners to finalize vehicle-cloud data contracts for all relevant integrations
- Work with middleware partners to finalize cloud-gateway interfaces with the rest of the vehicle
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or a related technical field
- 5 years of technical program management on software products with time spent on both release management and sprint-level execution
- Demonstrated ownership of a software release process: defining health metrics tracking critical path items to closure running daily status and driving go/no-go decisions
- Experience running agile execution alongside an engineering manager including backlog grooming and writing tickets that are genuinely actionable for developers
- Working knowledge of client-server and cloud integration patterns with direct experience defining or governing data contracts and API interfaces between systems
- Experience coordinating across partner teams and external vendors to close interface definitions not just track them
- Ability to escalate clearly and early to executive stakeholders with the judgment to know which risks belong at that level
- Strong written communication comfortable producing both a daily update and a long-term roadmap
Preferred Qualifications
- Automotive software experience particularly infotainment telematics or connected vehicle services
- Familiarity with vehicle-to-cloud architectures: gateway services message schemas MQTT or gRPC REST APIs and data contract versioning
- Exposure to vehicle middleware and the interfaces between a gateway service and the rest of the vehicle software stack
- Experience with over-the-air update programs or connected features such as remote lock and unlock vehicle status or vehicle tracking
- Background working with a major cloud providers IoT or device management services
- Familiarity with Automotive SPICE functional safety or cybersecurity requirements as they touch software release readiness
- Tooling: Jira Confluence and dashboard or reporting tools used for release health metrics
- Prior experience in a split or dual-scope TPM role or scaling a part-time scope into a full program
Salary Range
- $140000 - 155000
- The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including but not limited to location the candidates combination of job-related knowledge qualifications skills education training and experience
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status age genetic information or pregnancy.
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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or veteran status.
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About Company
Leader in Engineering and IT Services, ALTEN supports its customers’ development strategies in the areas of innovation and R&D
