Senior Technical Project Manager

Do you relish the prospect of providing end to end support across multiple product suites?

Would you like the opportunity to work in a high-impact role responsible for building customer loyalty?

Join our prestigious Professional Services team

Our Team provides managed services and proactive and reactive support to our global customers. We utilize tools, process and knowledge. We integrate and maintain Akamai security, media, and performance solutions for our clients. We collaborate to solve problems. Innovate to provide creative solutions and work to continuously improve for our customers and our team.

Become a trusted advisor

As a Sr. Technical Project Manager, you'll lead 5-15 engineers, driving execution of complex programs in regulated environments. You will apply technical fluency, program management, and relationship skills to deliver solutions in networks, edge, identity, and cybersecurity. Success requires clear, structured communication, process building, and aligning engineering execution with organizational strategy, customer needs, and federal compliance.

As a Sr. Technical Project Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Leading small, high-performing teams of engineers, ensuring clarity of objectives, accountability, and timely delivery of program milestones
• Planning, tracking, and managing technical projects from initiation through delivery, balancing scope, schedule, cost, and quality
• Serving as the primary interface between engineering teams, leadership, and customer stakeholders
• Ensuring compliance with federal contract requirements, including applicable policies, regulations, and reporting obligations
• Developing, documenting, and improving internal processes to support program execution and organizational efficiency
• Facilitating communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring risks, dependencies, and progress are clearly understood
• Supporting proposal development and program reporting activities when engaging with customers
• Fostering a collaborative, inclusive environment that enables engineers to succeed and grow

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, or related field or its equivalent
• Demonstrate experience in a customer-facing role within the information technology industry
• Show some experience of managing and delivering technical customer projects successfully
• Show understanding of network, web performance, and application/network security technologies/architectures as well as project management methodologies
• Demonstrate experience in managing multiple priorities
• Demonstrate communication skills and an ability to build trusting relationships with customers across various levels

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $119,600 - $215,400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.