Senior Technical Program Manager, Cloud Storage Infrastructure Management

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
  
• 5 years of experience in large-scale distributed system design and architecture with the ability to define technical specifications for robust, scalable, and available infrastructure solutions.
• 5 years of experience in applying data analysis techniques to diagnose system issues, model future state scenarios, and identify areas for cost optimization.
• 5 years of software development experience including the ability to read and understand code and make configuration changes.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience with capacity management and capacity planning methodologies, including familiarity with data warehousing or data marts solutions.
• Ability to conceive of, take ownership for, and drive projects to completion without continuous direction.
• Excellent organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills supported by verbal, written communication capabilities.
• Excellent influencing, teaming, and collaboration skills to deliver solutions in a rapidly changing organizational environment.

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 projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

As the Technical Program Manager for Central Storage Management, your core mission is to ensure Google's physical storage fleet matches logical demand in the most TCO-optimal and reliable manner, proactively shaping demand to maximize resource utilization. You will serve as the central orchestrator, co-ordinating across all of Google Engineering, Supply Chain, and Infrastructure teams to design and implement the future state of resource management. This involves identifying service efficiency, balancing resource distribution against network and budgetary constraints, and deploying the tools and policies necessary to redefine "on-demand" computing at an unprecedented scale.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Drive operational projects for internal storage resource allocation, budgeting, and efficiency programs.
• Lead system modeling, supply chain management, and capacity planning initiatives for storage resources.
• Advance operational strategy and policy while developing scripting tools and requirements documentation.
• Collaborate with partner teams to launch data architecture and process redesign projects for demand and supply-side compute resource management.