Senior Technical Program Manager, App Modernization

MongoDB MongoDB · Enterprise · New York, NY · Remote · PTO App Modernization ENG

The Application Modernization Platform team aids developers in making the shift from relational databases to MongoDB, building toolkits that leverage AI to power seamless transitions. This Senior Technical Program Manager role focuses on owning the successful delivery of complex, cross-functional efforts for Application Modernization, partnering closely with Engineering, Product, and other stakeholders to develop and execute product vision and business objectives.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the successful delivery of complex, cross-functional efforts for Application Modernization.
  2. Partner closely with stakeholders across the organization from Engineering, Product, Product Design, and Field-facing teams to develop and execute against our overall product vision and business objectives, uncover solutions to technical challenges, and provide data-driven insights that power strategic decision-making.
  3. Leverage technical acumen and analytical skills to drive engineering programs forward and maximize business value delivery.
  4. Develop a strategic approach to program management that balances hands-on oversight with process-driven operationalization. This involves discerning when to provide direct guidance and when to empower teams by establishing clear frameworks and guidelines for ongoing initiatives.
  5. Build strategic partnerships with Product, Design, and Engineering stakeholders.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of Software development background
  • experience with Java web services
  • experience with relational data modelling and SQL
  • tools and methodologies for code analysis, refactoring, and automated testing
  • partner with technical stakeholders
  • participate in technical design discussions
  • communicate across a diverse set of engineers and stakeholders
  • deep user empathy
  • balancing product goals and engineering constraints
  • coordinating across multiple independent work streams and organizations
  • effective execution practices
  • program delivery
  • project tracking software (JIRA is preferred)
  • MongoDB or a comparable technology
  • generative AI and Machine Learning
  • business automation work such as scripting in Python, Google Apps Script and Slack

Nice to have

  • AI is used to review applications

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of Software development background
  • familiar with tools and methodologies for code analysis, refactoring, and automated testing
  • able to partner with technical stakeholders in methodically breaking down engineering challenges to deliver against abstract goals
  • able to participate in technical design discussions and summarize trade-offs, outcomes, and next steps
  • skilled at communicating across a diverse set of engineers and stakeholders
  • capable of deep user empathy and adept at balancing product goals and engineering constraints to deliver impactful experiences
  • hyper-organized and capable of coordinating across multiple independent work streams and organizations
  • role model for effective execution practices, driven by an attuned sense of priority and urgency
  • able to leverage their experience in program delivery to influence improvements to our tools, operations, architecture
  • trained in working with project tracking software (JIRA is preferred)
  • familiar with MongoDB or a comparable technology
  • exposed to generative AI and Machine Learning
  • interested in business automation work such as scripting in Python, Google Apps Script and Slack