Technical Program Engineer (3) - US Hybrid Charlotte, NC
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Overview
The Technical Program Engineer role is responsible for facilitating Architectural Governance & Tooling Standards and guiding an enterprise-wide architectural governance group focused on standardizing tooling and technology choices across platform engineering teams. This role ensures consistent, scalable, and secure technical standards by coordinating decision-making processes, developing technical documentation, and driving end-to-end delivery of standards.
This individual should have strong software development expertise which enables effective technical and architectural governance facilitation, driving alignment among engineering, architecture, and product leadership teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Governance Leadership
• Facilitate and lead the Architectural Governance Group in decisioning Architecture and Tooling solutions that apply across the enterprise.
• Ensure productive, timebound, and outcome-oriented discussions.
• Drive alignment on standardized tooling, architectural patterns, and technology decisions across platform and product engineering teams.
• Serve as the accountable owner for automating governance workflows, meeting cadences, decision tracking, and documentation repositories.
End-to-End Project ManagementtoEnd Project Management
• Manage governance-related initiatives from proposal through approval, documentation, implementation, and adoption.
• Build and maintain timelines, milestones, and status reporting for architectural standardization efforts.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and cross-team impacts to ensure smooth decision-making and delivery.
Documentation & Technical Communication
• Create and maintain clear, high-quality technical and architectural documentation, including:
• Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
• Technical standards and guidelines
• Governance policies and process documentation
• Tooling evaluation summaries and recommendations
• Architecture diagrams
• Present complex technical concepts to diverse audiences in engineering, security, architecture, and product leadership.
• Git-based, docs-as-code workflows for creating and reviewing documentation.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
• Coordinate with engineering, architecture, DevOps, SRE, and security teams and business segment stakeholders to ensure decisions reflect real-world needs and constraints.
• Partner with leaders to drive adoption of approved standards and tooling across the organization.
• Support the creation and operation of domain-specific working groups as needed.
Continuous Improvement
• Evaluate and refine governance processes to improve clarity, decision velocity, and team engagement.
• Reduce toil in workflow and processes through use of agentic workflows.
• Maintain documentation templates, workflows, and governance best practices.
• Monitor industry trends in platform engineering, SaaS architectures, and enterprise tooling to inform future standards.
Required Qualifications:
• 5-8 years of experience in technical project management, platform engineering, software architecture, software development or related technical leadership roles.
• Experience working in platform engineering environments building SaaS or cloud-native solutions.
• Strong understanding of tooling and patterns common to modern platform engineering, including CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, observability, security tooling, and cloud services.
• Proven ability to create technical documentation, decision records, architecture summaries, and governance materials.
• Excellent facilitation skills-able to guide groups toward decisions, manage conflict, and drive consensus.
• Strong technical aptitude with the ability to engage effectively with engineers, architects, and senior leadership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with Architectural Decision Records (ADRs), RFC processes, or technical governance frameworks.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP architecture patterns and tooling ecosystems.
• Experience standardizing tooling or technical practices across large engineering organizations.
Success Indicators:
• Architectural governance group operates with clarity, consistency, and measurable decision velocity.
• Technical standards are widely adopted and reduce fragmentation and tooling sprawl.
• High-quality documentation enables transparency and alignment across engineering.
• Platform engineering teams report increased clarity and efficiency in selecting and implementing tooling.
Why us?
Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software. A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!
Siemens Software. Transform the Everyday with Us
#LI-PLM
#LI-HYBRID
#SWSaaS
#LI-JJ1
You'll Benefit From
Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to our employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html
The pay range for this position is 109,800 - 197,700 annually with a target incentive of 5-8 of the base salary. The actual wage offered may be lower or higher depending on budget and candidate experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications, and premium geographic location.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Siemens is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.
EEO is the Law
Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any characteristic protected by Federal or other applicable law.
Reasonable Accommodations
If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing a job application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please fill out the accommodations form by clicking on this link Accommodation for disability form. If you're unable to complete the form, you can reach out to our AskHR team for support at 1-866-743-6367. Please note our AskHR representatives do not have visibility of application or interview status.
Pay Transparency
Siemens follows Pay Transparency laws.
California Privacy Notice
California residents have the right to receive additional notices about their personal information. To learn more, click here.
Criminal History
Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable local and state laws.
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Overview
The Technical Program Engineer role is responsible for facilitating Architectural Governance & Tooling Standards and guiding an enterprise-wide architectural governance group focused on standardizing tooling and technology choices across platform engineering teams. This role ensures consistent, scalable, and secure technical standards by coordinating decision-making processes, developing technical documentation, and driving end-to-end delivery of standards.
This individual should have strong software development expertise which enables effective technical and architectural governance facilitation, driving alignment among engineering, architecture, and product leadership teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Governance Leadership
• Facilitate and lead the Architectural Governance Group in decisioning Architecture and Tooling solutions that apply across the enterprise.
• Ensure productive, timebound, and outcome-oriented discussions.
• Drive alignment on standardized tooling, architectural patterns, and technology decisions across platform and product engineering teams.
• Serve as the accountable owner for automating governance workflows, meeting cadences, decision tracking, and documentation repositories.
End-to-End Project ManagementtoEnd Project Management
• Manage governance-related initiatives from proposal through approval, documentation, implementation, and adoption.
• Build and maintain timelines, milestones, and status reporting for architectural standardization efforts.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and cross-team impacts to ensure smooth decision-making and delivery.
Documentation & Technical Communication
• Create and maintain clear, high-quality technical and architectural documentation, including:
• Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
• Technical standards and guidelines
• Governance policies and process documentation
• Tooling evaluation summaries and recommendations
• Architecture diagrams
• Present complex technical concepts to diverse audiences in engineering, security, architecture, and product leadership.
• Git-based, docs-as-code workflows for creating and reviewing documentation.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
• Coordinate with engineering, architecture, DevOps, SRE, and security teams and business segment stakeholders to ensure decisions reflect real-world needs and constraints.
• Partner with leaders to drive adoption of approved standards and tooling across the organization.
• Support the creation and operation of domain-specific working groups as needed.
Continuous Improvement
• Evaluate and refine governance processes to improve clarity, decision velocity, and team engagement.
• Reduce toil in workflow and processes through use of agentic workflows.
• Maintain documentation templates, workflows, and governance best practices.
• Monitor industry trends in platform engineering, SaaS architectures, and enterprise tooling to inform future standards.
Required Qualifications:
• 5-8 years of experience in technical project management, platform engineering, software architecture, software development or related technical leadership roles.
• Experience working in platform engineering environments building SaaS or cloud-native solutions.
• Strong understanding of tooling and patterns common to modern platform engineering, including CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, observability, security tooling, and cloud services.
• Proven ability to create technical documentation, decision records, architecture summaries, and governance materials.
• Excellent facilitation skills-able to guide groups toward decisions, manage conflict, and drive consensus.
• Strong technical aptitude with the ability to engage effectively with engineers, architects, and senior leadership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with Architectural Decision Records (ADRs), RFC processes, or technical governance frameworks.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP architecture patterns and tooling ecosystems.
• Experience standardizing tooling or technical practices across large engineering organizations.
Success Indicators:
• Architectural governance group operates with clarity, consistency, and measurable decision velocity.
• Technical standards are widely adopted and reduce fragmentation and tooling sprawl.
• High-quality documentation enables transparency and alignment across engineering.
• Platform engineering teams report increased clarity and efficiency in selecting and implementing tooling.
Why us?
Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software. A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!
Siemens Software. Transform the Everyday with Us
#LI-PLM
#LI-HYBRID
#SWSaaS
#LI-JJ1
You'll Benefit From
Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to our employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html
The pay range for this position is 109,800 - 197,700 annually with a target incentive of 5-8 of the base salary. The actual wage offered may be lower or higher depending on budget and candidate experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications, and premium geographic location.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Siemens is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.
EEO is the Law
Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any characteristic protected by Federal or other applicable law.
Reasonable Accommodations
If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing a job application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please fill out the accommodations form by clicking on this link Accommodation for disability form. If you're unable to complete the form, you can reach out to our AskHR team for support at 1-866-743-6367. Please note our AskHR representatives do not have visibility of application or interview status.
Pay Transparency
Siemens follows Pay Transparency laws.
California Privacy Notice
California residents have the right to receive additional notices about their personal information. To learn more, click here.
Criminal History
Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable local and state laws.
Apply Now
Apply Now