Technical Infrastructure Program Manager
Horizontal Talent · Seattle, WA · 6 days ago
On-siteProject Management$31–$64/hrContract
Responsibilities
- Cook up end-to-end project delivery across multiple teams, ensuring work progresses smoothly from intake through completion.
- Validate project readiness by confirming required inputs are in place before engineering acceptance.
- Track supplier progress and proactively escalate delays or blockers to the appropriate owners.
- Monitor automated workflows and follow up when milestones stall or dependencies are not met.
- Prepare and submit work requests for data center field teams, including the necessary build and cabling details.
- Manage a portfolio of concurrent projects in various stages of physical delivery and verification.
- Cook with field teams during physical installation, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.
- Support validation and turn-up scheduling to help ensure projects go live on time.
- Provide clear status updates to stakeholders and surface risks, trends, and recurring issues.
- Maintain documentation, process notes, and escalation paths to support consistent delivery.
Requirements
- Experience coordinating cross-functional projects in a fast-moving operational environment.
- Familiarity with data center operations, including cabling, rack positions, and physical infrastructure workflows.
- Strong understanding of project lifecycle management and milestone tracking.
- Able to manage multiple priorities and several concurrent workstreams at once.
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills with the ability to keep teams aligned and informed.
- Ability to identify blockers, triage issues, and route work to the correct team.
- Strong documentation and reporting skills with attention to detail.
- Comfort working with supplier and vendor dependencies in a highly coordinated setting.
- Working knowledge of network deployment concepts and fiber/optical infrastructure.
Preferred Skills
- Background supporting technical infrastructure, telecom, or network delivery programs.
- Experience managing work in ticketing or workflow systems.
- Exposure to change management within controlled maintenance windows.
- Ability to identify patterns across projects and recommend process improvements.
- Experience reducing escalations by improving coordination and handoff quality.
- Formal training in project coordination, operations, or a related field.