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.