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Senior Technical Program Manager - FinOps

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axon logoAxon · Seattle, WA
Full-timeOn-site2mo ago
AgileAWSAzureBashDocumentationExcel
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Responsibilities

  • As a Technical Program Manager, you will leverage your leadership skills and expertise to partner with engineering and product management teams to drive projects from inception, through design, development, and deployment.
  • Reports to: Director of Technical Program Management
  • Direct Reports: None
  • Lead execution across product management, engineering, and design teams to build excellent, data-driven project plans and schedules.
  • Drive process improvements in your space to build better faster so they teams are more effective and can deliver with higher velocity because of your impact.
  • Own your dependencies & invent and simplify as you face challenges pushing everyone towards the right outcome.
  • Tracking all major risks/issues/roadmaps and ensure clear communication of issues
  • Build trust with senior leaders by aligning your priorities with theirs, providing timely, accurate, and succinct status updates, and helping other teams when needed
  • Leading by example with thoroughness, detail, and care for our customers.
  • Work with all levels of technical staff across software and hardware engineering earning their trust, holding them accountable and problem solving alongside them.
  • You'll help teams capture and improve detailed process and software architectural documentation as needed.
  • Working knowledge of the public cloud providers
  • Working knowledge of how networking works in AWS and Azure
  • 2+ years of experience in Cloud FinOps engineering analysis and Cloud cost optimization
  • 2+ years in cloud operations role managing Cloud environments, budgets, forecasts and implementing financial controls.
  • Strong principles of financial analysis
  • Analytical skills and experience with cost optimization
  • Excellent SQL querying, Excel, and charting/graphing skills
  • Ability to gain trust querying and analyzing data accurately
  • Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations
  • Understanding of cloud cost management tools
  • Some experience with containerized environments and Terraform
  • Some experience with automation/development languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
  • Experience working on multi-million-dollar environments
  • Ability to influence engineering teams to optimize spending
  • What You Bring
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software/Electrical Engineering, Data Science, or other related field
  • 7+ years professional experience in leading and managing system/software delivery, with at least 2 specifically in a technical program management role.
  • High degree of competency and proven success with project management including: Agile Software Development Lifecycle methodology, identifying and managing risks, tracking dependencies and milestones, and communicating overall p

Benefits

Remote work options

Additional Information

Join Axon and be a Force for Good. At Axon, we're on a mission to Protect Life. We're explorers, pursuing society's most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other. Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you'll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.


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