Technical Program Manager, Enterprise Release Management

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in technical program management, managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
  
• 8 years of experience in SAP release management, and managing design, integrity, and quality of global S/4 HANA systems.
  
• 5 years of experience in leadership roles with direct reports.
  
• 5 years of experience in release management for enterprise apps.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in designing, configuring, and implementing ChaRM and other Solution Manager functionalities for large global S/4 HANA on-premise and SAP SaaS landscapes.
  
• Experience managing SAP infrastructure on hyperscalers, and leading end to end operations for change control boards.
• Expertise in driving high availability, resiliency, and scalability of a global S/4 HANA landscape delivering metrics-driven continuous improvements.
  
• Ability to work with cross-functional Directors and global leads.
  

About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage various Engineering-specific programs and teams.

The name Google came from "googol," a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business. The team identifies time-consuming internal processes and then builds solutions that are reliable and scalable enough to work within the size and scope of the company. You listen to and translate Googler needs into high-level technical specifications, design and develop recommended systems and consult with Google executives to ensure smooth implementation. Whether battling large system processes or leveraging our homegrown suite of Google products for Googlers themselves, you help Googlers work faster and more efficiently.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Act as the "Gatekeeper" for the production environment, ensuring nothing enters without final approval.
  
• Interact with stakeholders, freeze release scope, define and communicate release plans, coordinate integration, and approve releases into pre-production and production environments.
  
• Liaison with the Change Approval Board, providing input, assessments, and capacity information. Be responsible for communication of final release contents to relevant product teams.
  
• Manage SAP infrastructure on hyperscalers, and lead operations for change control boards.
  
• Build proposals and drive data based decisions for globally distributed delivery teams.