Technical Program Manager (TPM)

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled TPM to drive the design, development, and delivery of scalable, cloud-native applications. This role combines deep technical expertise with program leadershipowning architecture decisions, guiding engineering teams, and ensuring successful delivery of complex systems aligned with business goals.

Key Responsibilities

1. Architecture & Design

- Translate product requirements into scalable, maintainable system designs following Spring Boot and MVC best practices.
- Design and develop secure, enterprise-grade REST APIs using OAuth 2.0, JWT, and role-based access control, ensuring zero-trust principles.
- Drive microservices architecture strategy, including:
- Service decomposition
- Contract-first API design
- Synchronous (REST) and asynchronous (Kafka/RabbitMQ) communication

- Define and produce High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) artifacts.
- Evaluate and recommend appropriate tools, data structures, and technology stacks.

2. Development & Delivery

- Write clean, modular, and high-performance Java (15+) code, leveraging modern features like Streams, Optional, and CompletableFuture.
- Manage configuration using Spring Boot profiles, environment variables, AWS Secrets Manager, Kubernetes ConfigMaps/Secrets.
- Build and operate cloud-native applications using Docker, Kubernetes (AWS / OpenShift).
- Lead modernization efforts:
- Monolith Microservices migration
- Apply patterns like Strangler Fig, Anti-Corruption Layer

- Own the end-to-end SDLC: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.

3. Program Management (TPM Focus)

- Drive delivery planning, sprint execution,



and cross-team coordination.
- Break down complex initiatives into trackable deliverables with accurate estimations.
- Manage dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communication.
- Ensure timely delivery with quality adherence, balancing technical trade-offs.

4. Quality & Testing

- Enforce coding standards, peer reviews, and static code analysis.
- Define clear testing strategies:
- Unit tests (business logic isolation)
- Integration tests (Spring context, DB, external services)

- Drive performance, scalability, and reliability testing.
- Implement fault tolerance using Resilience4j (circuit breaker, retry, bulkhead, rate limiting).
- Champion TDD, CI/CD automation, and continuous delivery pipelines.

5. Operations & Reliability (SRE Mindset)

- Implement observability via Spring Boot Actuator, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK.
- Manage deployment strategies:
- Blue/Green, Canary, Rolling updates in Kubernetes

- Define and track SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
- Lead incident management, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems.
- Ensure production stability, scalability, and resilience.

6. Research & Innovation

- Explore and evaluate emerging technologies and frameworks.
- Lead Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and technical experiments.
- Stay current with Java evolution (Java 11, 17, 21 features).

7. Collaboration & Leadership





- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and stakeholders to drive solutions.
- Mentor team members through:
- Code reviews
- Pair programming
- Knowledge sharing sessions

- Navigate technical discussions with data-driven decision-making.
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Core Technical Skills

- Strong hands-on experience in Core Java (17+)
- Deep expertise in:
- Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security

- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs (versioning, pagination, error handling)
- Strong knowledge of SQL & PostgreSQL (schema design, query optimization)
- Hands-on experience with:

- Kafka and/or RabbitMQ
- Docker, Kubernetes (Deployments, Services, HPA, ConfigMaps, Secrets)

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)
- Experience with Resilience4j / fault tolerance frameworks

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in legacy system modernization to microservices
- Strong understanding of performance engineering and scalability
- Familiarity with SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, alerting)
- Experience managing complex, cross-functional projects

Soft Skills

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Solid problem-solving and decision-making abilities
- Ownership mindset for production systems and incidents
- Ability to work in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments
- Collaborative, proactive, and adaptable personality

Nice to Have

- Experience with AWS or OpenShift (OCP)
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
- Certification in Cloud / Kubernetes / Java / Agile methodologies

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