Hiring: Sr. Technical Program Mgr Company: NetApp Location: Morrisville, NC Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:31:41 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Agile, CSS, Cloud Storage, Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Product Management, Program Management, SQL About the job Experience: •10+ years of progressive technical program management, engineering program management, or infrastructure planning experience, including 3+ years leading hardware capacity planning, supply planning, data-center infrastructure, or hardware lifecycle programs at scale. Required Skills: •Own hardware capacity planning and forecasting across regions and service offerings, including launches, expansions, refreshes, and decommissions. •Drive quarterly and annual capacity planning and alignment across internal and external stakeholders; translate forecasts into annual funding plans, equipment procurement plans and hardware deployment schedules •Run capacity governance cadence – steering meetings, KPIs, dashboards, risk registers, and escalations – with clear owners and outcomes. Identify structural risks, lead options analysis, and deliver executive updates on capacity health, plan vs. actual, and decisions required. •Lead hardware lifecycle, and decommissioning programs from build-out through refresh, reclamation, and retirement. •Partner with cloud providers, Product Management, Sales, Supply Chain and additional internal teams on demand forecasting, equipment prepositioning, service dependency readiness, and equipment supply commitments. •Identify opportunities to repurpose, consolidate, migrate, or extend infrastructure assets to maximize return on investment while maintaining customer readiness targets. Drive programs that improve storage-fleet efficiency, improve environmental sustainability, and optimize capital investments. •Contribute to CSS TPMO capacity-planning practices and champion NetApp’s Values in every partner interaction. Qualifications: •Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of complex, cross-functional programs with material CapEx or infrastructure scope spanning multiple geographies and business functions. Ability to balance technical, operational, financial, and customer considerations when making infrastructure investment decisions. •Solid technical fluency in storage hardware (controllers, SSD/HDD media, shelves, networking) and cloud infrastructure economics; able to reason for capacity, performance, cost, and supply chain lead times. •Strong quantitative and modeling skills: comfortable building, stress-testing, and defending demand and capacity forecasts; fluent with BI / analytics tooling (Power BI, Tableau, SQL) and confident working with large datasets. •Track record of influencing in a highly matrixed environment across Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and external partner organizations without direct authority. •Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, devise solutions from limited information, and take a longer-term view; identify challenges and blockers ahead of time and provide alternate solutions under significant constraints. •Excellent written and verbal communication; able to compress complex technical and financial tradeoffs into crisp executive narratives. •Fluent in JIRA, Confluence, and Microsoft Office; experience with Agile delivery practices. •Storage industry experience and PMP certification are a plus. •Embodies NetApp’s Values and High Achievement Principles – Customer Trust, Get Stuff Done, and Build Belonging – with a consistent bias for outcomes, candor, and ownership. •Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Supply Chain, or related technical discipline. Compensation: •Competitive benefits and rewards package Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!