Senior Technical Program Manager Atlas Clusters

MongoDB MongoDB · Enterprise · Ireland · Remote · PTO Atlas Data Services

This role is for a Senior Technical Program Manager at MongoDB, focusing on delivering critical services and features for Atlas Clusters. The role involves partnering with Engineering, Product, and Product Design stakeholders, managing technical projects, and improving processes and tools for engineering teams. While MongoDB is involved in the AI space, this specific role is not directly building or researching AI/ML models, but rather managing the delivery of technical programs within an organization that supports AI initiatives.

What you'd actually do

  1. Execute and improve the processes and tools that inform the daily life of engineering teams
  2. Drive coordination between product development teams and internal stakeholders to prioritize the team's backlog and plan its release roadmap
  3. Identify risks to the team's delivery, mitigating them where possible
  4. Own the data around the health of each team's project and ticket backlog
  5. Know when a project/team requires more hands-on management and know when it is time to operationalize and develop a process framework for the project and/or team(s)

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of working in an engineering organization leading complex cross-functional technical programs
  • Demonstrated technical aptitude and strong analytical skills with proven results
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt style and delivery for a variety of audiences
  • Experienced with 5+ years working in a technical capacity and/or in a project or program management role
  • Skilled at managing technical projects and working with full stack development teams using a variety of project management techniques
  • Capable of deep user empathy and adept at balancing product goals and engineering constraints to deliver impactful experiences
  • Proficient in grasping the infrastructure of your program domain, and skilled at identifying the technical interfaces between teams
  • Able to maintain a strategic view of our software engineering processes while supporting and optimizing the operations of the team
  • Skilled at communicating across a diverse set of engineers and stakeholders
  • Hyper-organized and capable of juggling all of the data associated with projects and task-tracking
  • Knowledgeable of agile methodologies and experienced with implementing project management best practices
  • Driven by an attuned sense of priority and urgency to ship features and achieve the right business outcomes
  • Trained in working with project tracking software (e.g. JIRA, Rally, MS Project, Trello)

Nice to have

  • programming proficiency with JIRA and Google Docs

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years working in a technical capacity and/or in a project or program management role
  • managing technical projects
  • technical interfaces between teams
  • leading complex cross-functional technical programs
  • Demonstrated technical aptitude and strong analytical skills