Technical Program Manager WAN

You will lead end-to-end WAN delivery across Europe, including backbone expansion, site connectivity, capacity upgrades, and optimisation. You will coordinate technical and commercial stakeholders, manage providers, track programme risks and dependencies, and report delivery progress.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end WAN programme delivery for backbone expansion, site bring-up, capacity upgrades, and optimisation.
• Build and manage programme plans, dependencies, risks, and schedules.
• Coordinate Network Engineering, Infrastructure, SRE, Procurement, and external vendors.
• Manage carriers, fibre and wavelength providers, IXPs, and hardware vendors.
• Ensure WAN deployments meet performance, reliability, and scalability requirements before production handover.
• Implement processes, tools, and reporting that improve execution and visibility.
• Provide regular progress, risk, and outcome updates to leadership and stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical programme or project management experience.
• Experience delivering large-scale WAN, telecom, or data-centre interconnect programmes.
• Understanding of BGP, routing, capacity planning, fibre, DWDM, peering, and transit.
• Programme planning, risk management, and dependency tracking experience.
• Experience working with carriers, ISPs, and infrastructure vendors.
• Stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Willingness to travel across Europe.