Technical Program Manager (Temporary/Fixed-term contract)

Are you excited to work with innovative security products?

Do you relish the prospect of providing support across strategic cross-organization programs?

Join Program Management in our Cloud Technology Group

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group creates and manages cloud-based services that gather, process, and store data on Akamai transactions. Contribute to developing and maintaining industry-leading products that are essential to a global network delivering content for prominent customers and events.

Partner with the best

Serve as a Technical Program Manager within the Cloud Technology Group. Plan, coordinate, execute, and deliver significant projects, products, and solutions. Develop products deployed on Akamai's Global Network and leading media and entertainment company sites worldwide.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Owning and driving end-to-end delivery of complex technical programs, ensuring alignment with Engineering and Product leadership on objectives, roadmaps, and priorities.
• Developing and maintaining program plans, milestones, dependencies, and workflows across cross-functional engineering teams.
• Identifying proactively, tracking, and mitigating risks, issues, dependencies, and blockers in complex environments.
• Acting as a Scrum Master, facilitating ceremonies and coaching teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders to improve Scrum maturity and team autonomy.
• Identifying opportunities to optimize PMO processes, execution workflows, and engineering effectiveness across the organization.
• Establishing effective program governance, executive status reporting, and manage project dashboards using Jira, Confluence, and other tools.
• Building a trusting, high-transparency environment, guiding teams in conflict resolution, operational excellence, and delivery predictability.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have proven experience driving complex, cross-functional engineering or networking programs from initial planning through successful delivery.
• Possess hands-on ability to operate comfortably in a dual role, balancing strategic program leadership with operational Agile team support.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) with the capacity to improve team delivery predictability, transparency, and operational efficiency.
• Show a proactive approach to identifying, tracking, and resolving risks, issues, dependencies, and execution blockers in technical environments.
• Possess communication, presentation, and negotiation skills to influence and align engineering, product, release, and leadership teams.
• Demonstrate practical knowledge of AI-powered tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini) to automate routine tasks, increase efficiency, and enhance program effectiveness.
• Have Scrum Master (PSM I, CSM) and skills in team facilitation, conflict resolution, and continuous process improvement.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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