Assistant Vice President Program Manager

Job Title: Associate Vice President Technical Program Manager

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 14+ years

Key Responsibilities

Program & Delivery Leadership

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of GCP-based programs, including cloud migration, data engineering, application modernization, and AI/ML initiatives.
• Own program planning, execution, timeline management, and delivery governance across multiple distributed teams.
• Monitor scope, milestones, KPIs, risks, dependencies, and budget adherence for all cloud transformation projects.
• Develop and maintain program roadmaps, RAID logs, executive dashboards, and delivery scorecards.

Technical Project Management

• Understand and translate GCP architecture, Cloud Run/Functions, GKE, BigQuery, Vertex AI, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and cloud security requirements into actionable project plans.
• Drive technical discussions with architects, engineers, and cloud SMEs to ensure solution alignment with business and technology standards.
• Coordinate with engineering teams to define user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans across Agile/Scrum teams.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary point of contact for senior business stakeholders, cloud architects, engineering leads, and client leadership.
• Facilitate requirement-gathering sessions and ensure alignment between business objectives and technical delivery.
• Present program updates, risks, and mitigation strategies to executive sponsors and governance committees.

Cloud Governance & Compliance

• Ensure all GCP solutions follow enterprise cloud governance, security controls, IAM policies, FinOps guidelines, and compliance frameworks.
• Work with cloud CoE teams to enforce best practices for cloud-native design, reliability engineering, and performance optimization.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead multi-disciplinary teams across engineering, QA, DevOps, data, architecture, and product.
• Provide direction, remove blockers, and enable teams to deliver high-quality outcomes on time.
• Mentor and guide team members to improve delivery maturity, Agile adoption, and technical execution.

Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement across Agile delivery, sprint planning, automation, cloud operations, quality assurance, and DevOps pipelines.
• Identify opportunities to streamline delivery processes, reduce cycle time, and enhance predictability.

Qualifications we seek in you!

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven experience in

  technical project or program management

  for cloud transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of

  Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

  services and cloud-native architectures.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Demonstrated leadership in managing large-scale multi-team programs in Agile environments.
• Experience with project management tools and techniques (Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Agile, SAFe, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

  or

  Cloud Digital Leader certification

  (highly preferred).
• Experience managing cloud migration, data modernization, or AI/ML model deployment programs on GCP.
• Background in Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Solution Architecture.
• Strong communication, executive reporting, stakeholder management, and risk mitigation skills.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, Cloud Build, Terraform, SRE principles, and cloud governance frameworks.