EU remote
Technical Program Manager (Temporary/Fixed-term contract)
About this role
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.