Senior Principal Technical Program Manager

About the role

As Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for setting program direction across a significant product or business area. You will combine technical proficiency with leadership excellence — mentoring cross-disciplinary teams to plan, design, and deliver large-scale products and services with measurable impact.

Responsibilities

• Own the definition, roadmap, and execution of a portfolio of complex technical programs — ensuring alignment across Product and Engineering organizations to meet defined business objectives.
• Implement and refine cross-functional development and delivery frameworks that accelerate the introduction of new technology from conception through deployment.
• Lead planning and execution of programs across distributed teams, ensuring synchronized delivery of software, services, and infrastructure for major product milestones.
• Establish and lead regular stakeholder communication cadences, delivering clear program health updates, managing strategic risks, and escalating change control decisions to senior leadership.
• Collaborate with Engineering Managers and Architects to provide technical oversight on key initiatives, contributing to solution definition and reducing technical debt.
• Maintain and enforce organizational governance standards, providing visibility and metrics on program health and ensuring accountability for SLAs.
• Drive targeted improvements across the product development lifecycle and team structures to enhance efficiency and scalability of the engineering organization.
• Complete security & privacy literacy and awareness training during onboarding and annually thereafter.
• Review (initially and annually thereafter), understand, and adhere to Information Security/Privacy Policies and Procedures such as Data Classification, Retention & Handling Policy; Incident Response Policy/Procedures; Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Policy/Procedures; Mobile Device Policy; Account Management Policy; Access Control Policy; Personnel Security Policy; Privacy Policy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or advanced technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 12-15 years of progressive technical program/project management, including 1-2 years in a Sr. Principal or equivalent senior individual contributor leadership role (e.g., Group TPM Lead).
• Deep understanding of agile SDLC with proven experience driving large-scale releases and go-to-market schedules across a product portfolio.
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical strategies to both technical and non-technical senior leaders, including running executive program reviews.
• Hands-on experience with JIRA, Confluence, and other program management tools — including setting up complex boards, workflows, and reporting structures.
• A strong delivery-oriented mentality with a track record of driving strategic progress and resolving high-impact, customer-critical issues under pressure.
• Solid understanding of modern infrastructure, cloud technologies, and security best practices relevant to the product domain.
• Advanced conflict-resolution and problem-solving skills with a history of managing organizational complexity and building consensus across diverse stakeholders.

Benefits

Saviynt offers a competitive total rewards package, learning, and tremendous opportunities to grow and advance in your career. You will experience growth and learning through challenging yet rewarding work which directly impacts our customers, all within a welcoming and positive work environment.

Pay

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $220,000 to $240,000 annually. You may also be eligible to participate in a Saviynt discretionary bonus plan, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.