Senior Technical Program Manager - Engineering Platform

About the Role

The Technical Program Management (TPM) team has been tasked with making our engineering teams, especially the Engineering Platform team, more effective by identifying and executing opportunities to organize shared engineering systems and initiatives, to bring about useful standards, to foster the creation of learning materials, training opportunities and so on.

As a TPM for Engineering Platform, you ll be responsible for organizing and driving our efforts to develop and drive the adoption of solutions that are built in this space. This is a leadership role that requires you to have a solid foundation of both technical and collaborative skills that can be used to effectively influence a large, diverse, and talented engineering organization.

You will collaborate closely with Engineering Platform, SRE, Infosec, and PDG teams to manage infrastructure budget/cost including but not limited to finding opportunities for optimization, assisting in the execution of programs, and performing operational tasks such as financial reporting, planning, and facilitation of requirement gatherings and meetings with several stakeholders.

• Manage the execution of multiple high-complexity, technically oriented projects in parallel.
• Build healthy project teams that are productive, efficient, and fun to be part of.
• Develop roadmaps that capture both short-term milestones and the long-term direction for each project.
• Proactively address issues and communicate status for your team and your partners to bring projects in on time and within budget.
• Identify and predict risks to projects across multiple teams and develop mitigation and contingency plans to address them.
• Incorporate metrics into all stages and communications of projects to remove subjectivity and ensure data-driven decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to help Gojek build a technology platform that is both a cutting-edge competitive advantage and incredibly cost-efficient.

What You Will Need

About the Team

Technical Program Management (TPM) is a new role within Gojek that will mature our engineering platform, and play a critical role in establishing shared systems, fostering engineering excellence, and a healthy engineering community across all of our products.

TPMs are experienced technologists responsible for creating clarity, ensuring we re working on the right things, driving execution, and managing risks on critical projects that involve quite a bit of cross-group collaboration.