# Senior Technical Program Manager (IC8)

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $176,500.00 - $262,350.00 Annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager (IC8) to lead a multi-year AWS cloud transformation program focused on building disaster recovery (DR) resiliency , evolving our environments from single-region operation to full multi-region, active/active or active/passive high-availability architectures.

**Program Leadership & Delivery**

- Own the multi-year roadmap for the cloud transformation and DR program, translating a board-level commitment into phased milestones, dependencies, and staffing plans.

- Build and maintain the master program plan across infrastructure, application, data, and network workstreams, identifying critical path and cross-team dependencies.

- Drive a regular program governance cadence with clear RAG status, risk registers, and decision logs.

- Manage vendor/professional-services engagements tied to the transformation.

**AWS Cloud Transformation & DR Architecture**

- Partner with engineering and cloud architecture teams to define the target-state multi-region topology, including data replication strategy, failover/failback mechanisms, and RTO/RPO targets per service tier.

- Coordinate migration and re-architecture waves across service teams, sequencing work to minimize risk to production availability.

- Track technical debt and single points of failure that block multi-region readiness, and drive remediation plans with accountable owners.

- Maintain a working understanding of AWS services relevant to DR.

**DR Testing, Audit & Compliance**

- Own the DR testing program: tabletop exercises, partial failover tests, and full regional failover/failback tests, on a defined recurring cadence.

- Define and track DR test success criteria, capture findings, and drive closure of gaps identified during each test cycle.

- Serve as the primary point of contact for internal audit, risk, and compliance teams on DR readiness.

- Maintain DR runbooks, escalation procedures, and compliance documentation in a state that is always audit-ready.

**Stakeholder & Executive Communication**

- Prepare and deliver concise, BLUF-style executive updates to SVP/C-suite stakeholders and steering committees.

- Act as the connective tissue between engineering execution teams, architecture, security, legal/compliance, and finance/procurement.

- Represent the program in cross-functional planning cycles and translate technical scope into business-case language.

**Risk, Vendor & Headcount Management**

- Identify, log, and actively manage program risks, including single points of failure in staffing and technical risk.

- Manage relationships with AWS and any third-party implementation partners.

- Support hiring and onboarding for program roles as needed, and manage resourcing plans against the multi-year roadmap.

**Requirements:**

- 10+ years of technical program/project management experience, including at least 5 years leading large-scale cloud infrastructure or platform-resiliency programs.

- Demonstrated experience running an AWS-based disaster recovery program.

- Proven ability to manage multi-year, multi-workstream programs with competing priorities and dependencies across several engineering teams.

- Strong executive communication skills.

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- cloud transformation
- disaster recovery
- program management
- technical leadership

### Nice to have
- AWS cloud
- multi-region architecture
- failover testing
- RTO/RPO planning

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