Technical Program Manager

1 day ago

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Apptad Full-time


Key Responsibilities
• Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise platform modernization programs, including legacy application modernization, re-platforming, infrastructure transformation, and technology-stack upgrades.
• Define program strategy, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, governance structures, and execution plans across multiple engineering teams.
• Drive cloud migration and cloud-native transformation initiatives, including rehosting, re-platforming, refactoring, containerization, and application modernization.
• Lead enterprise CI/CD transformation by standardizing build, test, release, and deployment processes across applications and engineering teams.
• Drive DevSecOps adoption by integrating security controls, vulnerability management, compliance requirements, and automated quality gates into the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, Cloud, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, SRE, QA, and Release Management teams to manage cross-functional dependencies.
• Establish program governance covering scope, schedules, risks, issues, dependencies, budgets, resources, and delivery metrics.
• Identify technical and delivery risks proactively and drive mitigation, escalation, and executive-level decision-making.
• Improve release automation, deployment reliability, engineering productivity, platform resilience, and operational readiness.
• Manage technology vendors, strategic partners, and external stakeholders supporting modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Provide executive-level reporting on program health, milestones, risks, dependencies, financials, and business outcomes.
• Promote Agile and product-oriented delivery practices across complex, multi-team transformation programs. Required Technical Skills
• Strong experience managing enterprise platform and application modernization programs.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture and migration, preferably AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD architecture, deployment automation, release orchestration, and software delivery practices.
• Hands-on understanding of modern engineering tools and technologies, including:
• Git and source control management
• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps
• Trraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Artifact repositories and package management tools
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps, secure SDLC, automated security scanning, vulnerability remediation, and security/compliance gates.
• Knowledge of microservices, APIs, container platforms, observability, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience coordinating complex migrations involving applications, infrastructure, databases, integrations, environments, and production cutovers.