At NetApp, our High Achievement Principles shape how we work: we innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel as a team. We have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. As part of our sales organization, your role will require a strategic blend of technical acumen and charismatic client engagement, ensuring that every partnership is nurtured towards its maximum potential.

As a pivotal link between NetApp and our clients, your contributions will directly influence the growth and direction of our department, making a lasting impact on the organization's success. This is more than a job—it's a chance to be part of a team that values innovation, supports professional growth, and celebrates shared victories.

Success profile

Ready to be an engineer at NetApp? Explore the traits that can help you thrive.

- Analytical
- Adaptable
- Communicator
- Detail-oriented
- Quick-thinking
- Problem solver

Responsibilities

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Job category: Engineering Job ID: 135402-en_US Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary

As a Technical Program Manager, Level 5, you will own the planning, execution, governance, and delivery of complex engineering programs across NetApp product teams. You will partner with engineering, product management, quality, release management, and customer-facing teams to translate business and technical priorities into executable plans. You will manage program scope, dependencies, risks, release readiness, engineering backlog health, defect governance, and stakeholder communications. You will use data, automation, agile practices, and responsible AI to improve predictability, quality, productivity, and operational efficiency.

Job Requirements

- Drive coordination and orchestration across multiple stakeholders to identify, prioritize, design, and deploy key initiatives that accelerate NetApp’s Technology growth.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement process improvements and best practices to enhance the overall customer experience.




- Guide other stakeholders in the development of comprehensive programs and tech initiatives, including clear and concise governance models, policies, and procedures.
- Communicate updates, progress, and results to stakeholder groups, including executive leadership, sales teams, and cross-functional teams. Be instrumental in gathering field feedback and insights to inform CORE FILE SERVCIES GROUP team on new initiatives

Knowledge and Technical Skills

- 15+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering program management, or related roles in enterprise software, infrastructure, cloud, storage, or distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of agile delivery, release management, CI/CD practices, backlog management, defect governance, and software quality processes.
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional engineering programs involving multiple teams, geographies, dependencies, and executive stakeholders.
- Experience defining and improving execution metrics such as schedule predictability, engineering throughput, backlog health, defect aging, release readiness, risk burndown, and quality outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to use tools such as Jira, Power BI, or equivalent platforms to manage plans, dependencies, risks, dashboards, and stakeholder reporting.
- Ability to understand technical architecture, dependencies, engineering trade-offs, and quality risks sufficiently to drive informed program decisions.
- Experience applying AI, automation, or analytics to improve productivity, reporting, planning, quality, or operational efficiency, with appropriate governance and responsible-use practices.

Preferred qualifications

- Experience working in enterprise storage, cloud infrastructure, data management, SaaS, distributed systems, or platform engineering.
- Experience managing programs involving customer escalations, quality initiatives, release trains, or cross-product dependencies.
- Experience building executive dashboards and operating reviews.
- Experience leading change management or process transformation across engineering organizations.
- Robust facilitation skills for driving alignment in ambiguous or high-pressure situations.Knowledge of NetApp products

Education

IC role requiring 15+ years of relevant experience and a BE/B.Tech or equivalent degree. At NetApp,



we embrace a hybrid working workplace designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Prospect (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.

Submitting an Application To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

AI Disclosure For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.

Our values

Put the customer at the center. Care for each other and our communities. Think and act like owners. Build belonging every day. Embrace a growth mindset.

Benefits

Volunteer time off

40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.

Well-being

Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.

Time away

Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.

📌 Staff Technical Program Mgr (Bengaluru)
🏢 NetApp
📍 Bengaluru