Technical Program Manager, Fiber Infrastructure
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field (e.g., Civil, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering) or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in technical program management, specifically designing, constructing, or managing physical infrastructure projects.
- Experience creating infrastructure designs (e.g., telecom, electrical, mechanical) and drawing sets for production data center networking spaces.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working with regional carriers and stakeholders in the India telecommunications market.
- Experience with scripting and automation to improve program efficiency and data integrity.
- Proven track record in driving organizational change and implementing innovative technical solutions within a matrixed environment.
- Professional, Registered, or Chartered Engineer designation, or credentials such as RCDD or PMP.
- Advanced domain knowledge in fiber optic network design and deployment (OSP) and data center infrastructure (ISP).
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.
The Fiber Infrastructure Engineering and Delivery Team is a unified organization within Google Global Infrastructure (GGI), integrating the expertise of Capacity Infrastructure Engineering (CIE), Network Infrastructure Engineering (NIE), and Fiber and Capacity Delivery (FCD). Our mission is to deliver the resilient long-haul and metro fiber assets and data center network space that power Google's global growth and AI leadership.
The position is intended to be located in Visakhapatnam (Vizag). You will need to be on-site in Visakhapatnam (Vizag) once the facility becomes operational.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
Responsibilities
- Lead the day-to-day execution of the network asset schedule in India, focusing on high-priority business objectives and critical capacity needs. Proactively identify, organize, and resolve strategic execution blockers, including materials shortages, priority shifts, and resource constraints across cross-functional teams.
- Review and understand Google network architecture standards. Create design and SOW documents for network infrastructure and optical cabling for both ISP (data center power/cooling/space) and OSP (dark fiber/leased capacity).
- Ensure alignment of executive cross-functional and cross-organizational stakeholders. Communicate progress, risks, and mitigation plans effectively to both executive leadership and technical engineering teams.
- Identify workflow inefficiencies and implement process improvements to increase delivery speed and predictability. Ensure high fidelity of network delivery data across systems to drive consensus and decision-making.
- Travel approximately 25% of the time, primarily to Google’s Data Centers and infrastructure sites.
