This is Adyen
Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.
For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.
Technical Project Manager, Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering builds Platform as a Product, empowering engineers to autonomously build and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable applications with speed and quality. Our platform includes the crucial infrastructure foundation that supports our entire product suite and all our merchants. Adyen operates its own global network of data centers, continuously evolving its footprint and technology. As a Technical Project Manager, you will play a critical role in delivering on our commitments to the company and our merchants. You'll coordinate complex and highly technical projects that require a deep understanding of our platform, team dependencies, and strong alignment skills for successful delivery.
What you'll do:
- Orchestrate complex infrastructure projects: You'll be the central point of coordination for projects related to data center strategy, network standardization, and overall platform improvements. This involves managing timelines, dependencies, risks, and communication across multiple engineering teams to ensure successful project delivery.
- Execute data center footprint optimization: You will be instrumental in executing data center expansion and consolidation initiatives. This includes coordinating the technical aspects of bringing new data center locations online and decommissioning existing ones, ensuring minimal disruption and adherence to established plans.
- Facilitate cross-team collaboration: You'll act as the primary interface between various infrastructure, platform engineering, and application teams, ensuring clear communication, alignment on technical requirements, and efficient progress on project deliverables.
- Manage technical dependencies: You'll proactively identify and manage technical dependencies between different workstreams within complex projects, ensuring smooth integration and preventing roadblocks that could delay delivery.
- Track and report progress: You'll be responsible for tracking project progress, identifying potential risks and issues, and providing clear and concise updates to stakeholders to keep projects on course.
- Ensure organizational efficiency and clarity: You'll leverage your understanding of structure and organization to establish clear processes, documentation, and workflows for efficient project execution.
- Technical liaison: You'll utilize your technical proficiency to understand the intricacies of infrastructure and platform engineering, enabling you to effectively communicate with and support the engineering teams to drive project completion.
What you bring:
- 5+ years of experience as a Technical Project Manager or in a similar technical project coordination role within a complex technology environment.
- Strong technical aptitude with the ability to understand and discuss infrastructure and platform engineering concepts (e.g., networking, data centers, cloud infrastructure). You don't need to be a hands-on engineer, but technical fluency is essential.
- Exceptional organizational and coordination skills with a proven ability to manage complex, multi-faceted projects with numerous stakeholders and dependencies.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proven ability to drive execution and ensure the timely delivery of project objectives.
- Strong understanding of project management methodologies and tools.
- Experience working with infrastructure and platform engineering teams is highly preferred.
- Experience in a high-growth, global technology company is a plus.
- Experience with data center build-outs or migrations and network standardization projects is a significant advantage.
Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments
Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.
Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!
What’s next?
Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.
This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.