Senior Technical Project Manager

Senior Technical Project Manager (Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Atlanta, Georgia): The Senior Technical Project Manager will leverage a strong technical background, excellent client and project management skills, proven ability to do hands on technical work when needed, and ability to lead technical projects and technical teams. The Technical Project Manager will independently solve complex technical problems and communicate clearly and effectively to both technical and business audiences. Specific responsibilities include: working independently or leading small technical teams with Akamai customers to evaluate their security architecture and deliver the appropriate security solution; evaluating the customers' content management and publishing processes, web application architecture, security requirements, DNS configurations, and providing detailed documentation for a custom solution that satisfies the customers' business and technical requirements; working closely with customers and pre-sales teams to manage and implement customer trials, proposing technically feasible solutions and setting accurate expectations on effort and timelines for integration; establishing success criteria and acting as the single point of contact for the customer for all technical issues and project deliverables; creating and managing proposals, Statements of Work, and detailed project plans for customer integrations including timelines and effort estimates; working closely with Account Management, Sales professionals, engineering, product development and Customer Care to resolve issues that arise during customer integrations; identifying new product features and additional sales opportunities during trials and integrations and communication of the same to product development and sales teams; tracking and documenting status and time spent on customer integrations; participating in internal projects that help scale the group, implementing best practices, and improving our methodology and quality of integrations; and reviewing quality of customer integrations. Up to 10% of travel to supported customer's offices when necessary.

Minimum requirements are: Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field. Alternatively, will consider Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field plus 5 years of progressive experience.

Must have: Ability working in technical pre-sales/sales engineering, consulting, and/or other customer facing role consulting on delivering technical products or services; proven ability working with Internet technologies, standards and protocols, including DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, Web architecture, and design; proven ability working with network and security solutions, including route/switch, IDS/IPS, Firewall/VPN, Security Event Management, Data Loss Prevention, and Web Application Protection for strategic business initiatives; and excellent verbal and written communication skills. (Please note Akamai is seeking the stated ability in the above skills but no specific amount or years of experience in these skills is required.)

Apply online or send resume to: Caitlin Cygan, Human Resources, Akamai Technologies, Inc., 150 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142.  Reference: SL-SK-STPM-0616.