Technical Program Manager - Telecom

What You'll Do :

- Drive the project management, application-lifecycle-management and access control vision

- Work with engineering and architecture leadership to define platform capabilities

- Collaborate with the multiple functional teams in Airtel Africa to deliver the platform services

- Evaluate open source and partner technologies

- Liaise with other teams inside Airtel Africa that are instrumental in delivering the project management capability

- Participate in one or more scrum teams as a product owner to define goals, set priorities and manage backlog

- Set criteria for release readiness with regards to functionality of the solution

- Support multiple cross-functional technical teams to deliver their objectives in fast-paced and complex programs and projects

- Develop strong partnerships with engineering and product management leaders to drive focus on strategic and tactical program objectives

- Build strategic relationships with key technology and business leaders to ensure program success

- Drive teams and individuals in planning and executing roadmaps, releases, and work backlogs

- Lead efforts to identify risks, resolve key project conflicts, and establish appropriate resolution paths

What are we looking for :

- 7+ years of full time technical program management experience within an engineering or technical team

- Demonstrated success managing multiple major and concurrent programs

- Prior experience driving development of massive-scale distributed data platforms, recommendation and search technologies, big data pipelines, and/or analytical tools.

- Significant experience working with software engineering leadership, technical teams and individual contributors

- Ability to communicate authoritatively at a sufficient technical depth

- Agile coaching and practitioner experience (Scrum, Kanban) with multiple teams

- Experience in managing all phases of end-to-end product development

- Knowledge of Internet client/server social networking applications and systems

- Hands-on software development experience a plus