Senior Technical Program Manager

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

3d•$119,600 - $215,400•Hybrid

About The Position

Our Senior Technical Program Managers lead strategic programs and initiatives across the enterprise. We align product, engineering, architecture among others to exceed the expectations of our customers. Leaders across the organization rely on us to execute on critical programs with high business impact. This role oversees programs aligning Akamai's Cloud Infrastructure with global data laws, boundary conditions, and regional compliance frameworks. Success involves fostering collaboration among technical and business stakeholders to simplify risk landscapes into actionable solutions, ensuring operational excellence.

Requirements

8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelors Degree or its equivalent.
Demonstrate relevant experience in Compliance frameworks, such as: ISO27K01, C5 Type 2, NIS2, SOC2(Type I & II), HIPAA (known as ISOC collectively)
Thrive in an ambiguous environment.
Analyzing workload and communicate technical issues to senior stakeholders of varying technical ability
Inspire people at all levels of the organization without formal authority.

Responsibilities

Exercising ownership over complex, cross-functional security initiatives; aligning engineering roadmaps with risks and embedding automated governance into systems and software lifecycles.
Ensuring health of projects and accountability by proactively managing schedules, risks, and critical decision-making processes.
Collaborating with engineering, product, architecture and legal teams to transform ambiguous regulatory criteria into hard system specifications at scale.
Ensuring organizational visibility into program status and risks through reporting, steering meetings, and defining metrics-based reporting for initiative health.
Collaborating with engineering leadership to evaluate and improve team capacity, ensuring roadmaps remain achievable, prioritized, and aligned with throughput.
Enhancing operational efficiency by standardizing methodologies, automating recurring tasks, and implementing repeatable project governance models.
Fostering alignment between technical and business leadership by communicating complex risks and mediating competing priorities to achieve key outcomes.
Contributing to the TPM community by guiding junior program managers, joining interview panels, and improving cross-team processes to enhance organizational maturity.