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Role: Cloud Program Manager (Google Cloud)
- Start Date: Immediately
- Assignement Duration: 5 months
- Work Location: 100% remoto
- Working Hours: Brazilian business hours or GMT-5, from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Language: Advanced or fluent English and Spanish. Both languages are mandatory, as the professional will communicate directly with clients and international teams.
Position Overview
We are looking for an experienced Cloud Program Manager to lead complex cloud transformation programs across the LATAM region.
The professional will serve as the primary connection between technical teams, business stakeholders, clients, and executive leadership. This role requires the ability to manage multiple interdependent projects while ensuring delivery, governance, risk mitigation, financial control, and measurable business value.
The ideal candidate combines strong Program and Project Management experience with business acumen, executive stakeholder management, and a solid technical understanding of cloud infrastructure, data platforms, application modernization, and cloud-native environments.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead complex cloud transformation programs composed of multiple interdependent projects and workstreams.
• Define and maintain the governance structure for large-scale cloud programs.
• Plan, monitor, and control program scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Coordinate multiple technical teams, business areas, vendors, and client stakeholders.
• Apply Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies according to project requirements.
• Establish executive monitoring models, performance indicators, dashboards, and reporting routines.
• Identify program risks in advance and develop mitigation and contingency plans.
• Manage financial controls, budgets, forecasts, and program-related expenditures.
• Lead change management activities associated with cloud transformation initiatives.
• Facilitate strategic meetings, steering committees, workshops, and executive presentations.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and maintain alignment between technical teams, business areas, and executive sponsors.
• Support conflict resolution, negotiation, and decision-making across different workstreams.
• Connect program deliverables with the client’s strategic and business objectives.
• Support the development and evaluation of business cases, ROI, TCO, and financial benefits related to cloud initiatives.
• Work closely with architects, engineers, and technical specialists to understand technical risks, dependencies, and delivery impacts.
• Ensure successful program delivery while maintaining quality, governance, transparency, and business value.
Mandatory Requirements
• Solid experience in Program Management and Project Management.
• Proven experience leading large-scale programs composed of multiple simultaneous projects or workstreams.
• Strong knowledge of Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Practical experience with Scrum environments, preferably as a Scrum Master or Program Manager working with Agile teams.
• Experience managing scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Experience establishing governance models for complex programs.
• Strong knowledge of risk management, issue management, dependency management, and change management.
• Experience with financial and budget management for programs or large projects.
• Experience preparing executive reports, KPIs, dashboards, and program status presentations.
• Proven ability to anticipate risks and implement mitigation plans before they affect cost, schedule, scope, or quality.
• Strong experience managing internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience communicating with technical teams, business leaders, directors, vice presidents, executive sponsors, and C-level stakeholders.
• Experience facilitating strategic meetings and executive-level discussions.
• Strong negotiation, conflict resolution, and expectation management skills.
• Advanced or fluent English.
• Advanced or fluent Spanish.
Business and Strategic Knowledge
• Ability to connect technical program deliverables with business and strategic objectives.
• Experience developing, evaluating, or presenting business cases.
• Understanding of Return on Investment – ROI.
• Understanding of Total Cost of Ownership – TCO.
• Knowledge of the financial and operational benefits associated with cloud initiatives.
• Experience supporting digital transformation programs.
• Understanding of cloud adoption strategies in large corporate environments.
Cloud Technical Knowledge
Although this is not a hands-on engineering position, the professional must have sufficient technical knowledge to lead discussions with architects, engineers, and technical teams.
The candidate should demonstrate knowledge of:
• Cloud infrastructure concepts and architectures.
• Compute services.
• Cloud networking.
• Cloud storage.
• Virtualization.
• Cloud security.
• Databases and data platforms.
• Data migration.
• Analytics platforms.
• CI/CD pipelines.
• DevOps practices.
• Application modernization.
• Cloud-native architectures.
The professional is not expected to perform technical implementation activities but must understand technical concepts, risks, dependencies, architectural decisions, and delivery impacts to lead the program effectively and maintain credibility with engineering teams.
Preferred Experience
• Cloud migration programs.
• Digital transformation initiatives.
• Application modernization programs.
• Enterprise platform implementations.
• Global or multinational projects.
• Complex environments involving multiple vendors and delivery partners.
• Simultaneous management of multiple workstreams.
• Frequent interaction with C-level executives and business sponsors.
• Cloud initiatives involving infrastructure, data, applications, and development teams.
Soft Skills
• Strategic leadership.
• Executive-level communication.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Business-oriented mindset.
• Stakeholder engagement and relationship management.
• Negotiation and conflict resolution.
• Ability to influence teams without direct authority.
• Strong organization and prioritization skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in complex and multicultural environments.
• Proactive risk identification and decision-making.
• Results-oriented approach.
Expected Professional Profile
The ideal professional will have extensive experience in Program and Project Management, Agile delivery, governance, financial management, risk management, and executive stakeholder engagement.
This is a strategic leadership position that combines program management, business vision, and technical cloud knowledge. The professional must be capable of leading complex cloud and digital transformation programs in large corporate environments while ensuring successful delivery and measurable value for the client.
The résumé must clearly describe the candidate’s experience leading complex cloud programs, including program size, number of projects or workstreams, stakeholders involved, cloud transformation context, governance responsibilities, budget management, risks managed, technologies or cloud platforms involved, and measurable results achieved. Generic résumés without detailed evidence of Program Management, executive stakeholder interaction, and cloud transformation experience may not provide sufficient information for technical evaluation.
Further information will be given along the technical interview.
