Role Positioning
● Junior individual contributor operating under direct supervision of a Program Director
● No independent decision-making authority — key decisions remain with the director; this role enables and informs them
● Not the primary external client contact; may represent the director in internal supplier and team coordination meetings when the director is unavailable
● Technical understanding expected at a conceptual and contextual level — not hands-on engineering or architecture
● High-growth role designed for early-career engineers who want to develop into full program leadership over time
Mandatory Profile Criteria
● Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field (entry level candidates welcome; 0–2 years of professional experience)
● Demonstrated organizational leadership track record — student governance, youth programs, technical clubs, hackathon organizing, sports captaincy, or equivalent structured team environments where the candidate coordinated people and drove outcomes
● Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable engaging with both senior engineers and non-technical stakeholders
● Highly organized with strong attention to detail, reliable follow-through, and the ability to juggle multiple concurrent workstreams without losing threads
● Willingness to pursue formal project management certification (CAPM, PMP, CSM, or equivalent) within the first year in role
Key Responsibilities
1. Program Coordination & Execution Support
● Support the Program Director in monitoring delivery progress across AI infrastructure, GPU platform, HPC, and container platform workstreams.
● Maintain and update program plans, milestone trackers, risk logs, and action item registers across all active workstreams.
● Ensure the director has a timely, accurate, and consolidated view of program health across all workstreams and supplier tracks.
2. Meeting Management & Communication
● Own scheduling, agenda preparation, pre-read distribution, and minutes/action item capture for all program governance meetings, team standups, and supplier touchpoints.
● Track and follow up on open action items across engineering teams and suppliers on the director's behalf.
● Step in as the director's proxy in routine coordination and status meetings when the director is unavailable — escalating decisions rather than making them.
3. Technical Context & Blocker Awareness
● Participate in engineering standups, technical reviews, and supplier calls.
● Build sufficient familiarity with AI factory architecture, GPU cluster operations, HPC workload management, and container platforms to accurately capture technical status and blockers.
● Relay technical context to the director clearly and without distortion; flag issues proactively without needing to resolve them.
4. Priority Tracking & Reporting
● Maintain a live consolidated view of program priorities and outstanding decisions; surface these to the director on a defined cadence.
● Prepare concise status summaries, escalation briefs, and decision-ready materials that allow the director to act quickly and confidently.
● Track supplier commitments and engineering team deliverables against agreed timelines; highlight variances before they become escalations.
5. Documentation & Program Administration
● Maintain all program documentation in a structured, current, and accessible state — including program plans, decision logs, RAID logs, and supplier trackers.
● Ensure program artifacts are consistently formatted and ready for director review or stakeholder distribution at short notice.
● Support onboarding of new team members or suppliers by providing organized program context documentation.
6. Professional Development & Program Learning
● Actively build familiarity with HPE's AI infrastructure portfolio, GreenLake delivery model, and professional services delivery practices.
● Pursue project management certification (PMI-CAPM, PMP, CSM, or equivalent) ideally within the first year in role.
● Contribute observations and improvement suggestions to the director to continuously refine program coordination practices.
Technical Knowledge Expectations
Conceptual-level understanding of the following areas is expected — not hands-on proficiency, but sufficient familiarity to follow technical discussions, accurately capture what is being said, and communicate it without distortion to the director and stakeholder group:
● AI Factory architecture and HPE Private Cloud AI — GPU clusters, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, training vs. inference workloads, and what these environments are designed to deliver
● HPC fundamentals — workload schedulers (Slurm, PBS Pro), cluster management tools (HPCM, NVIDIA Base Command Manager), and high-speed networking concepts (InfiniBand)
● Container platform concepts — Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher; understanding what these platforms do in an AI/HPC delivery context and why they matter
● HPE GreenLake — consumption model basics and how it shapes delivery commitments and customer conversations
● Hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure concepts at a high level — sufficient to understand where decisions and trade-offs arise across supplier boundaries
Education & Certifications
● Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field (required)
● PMI Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), PMP, or Agile / Scrum certification: preferred; willingness to pursue within 12 months of joining is expected if not already held
● Cloud, infrastructure, or AI-adjacent coursework, academic projects, or certifications are a plus (e.g., AWS Cloud Practitioner, NVIDIA DLI, Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate)
Ideal Candidate Profile
● Recent engineering graduate who gravitated toward coordination, leadership, and communication throughout their academic career rather than deep technical specialization
● Has led structured teams — student government, technical or engineering clubs, hackathon organizing, sports captaincy, community programs — and knows how to keep people aligned and moving toward a shared goal
● Technically curious and comfortable in rooms with senior engineers; asks good questions, captures accurately, and knows when to listen
● Exceptionally organized — treats structure, documentation, and follow-through as professional instincts, not imposed constraints
● Poised and professional with senior stakeholders; capable of representing the director's position clearly in a meeting without overstepping on decisions
● High growth trajectory — this role is designed for someone who intends to grow into a full Technical Program Manager or Program Director role over a 2–4 year horizon