What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Program Manager position at Sirion?
About Sirion
Sirion is the world’s leading AI–native Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform, transforming the end-to-end contracting journey for global enterprises. Powered by Agentic AI, our platform’s extraction, conversational search, and AI-enhanced negotiation capabilities are redefining how organizations create, negotiate, and manage contracts.
Trusted by Fortune 500 companies such as Schneider, Morgan Stanley, Qantas, Unilever, IBM, Vodafone, Alstom, and Novartis, Sirion manages 5M contracts worth $450B across 70 countries. With 800 employees worldwide—and backed by $110M in Series D funding—we are building the next generation of intelligent, reliable, and secure contract systems.
Power the Future of AI & Why This Role Matters
The Engineering Program Manager plays a mission-critical role in ensuring the successful execution of large-scale, complex software initiatives across Sirion’s rapidly growing SaaS platform. You will serve as the connective tissue between engineering, product, and business teams—driving delivery excellence, mitigating risks, and ensuring alignment with customer and organizational goals.
Your work will directly influence product quality, development velocity, and cross-functional coordination across globally distributed teams.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Lead regulatory and compliance-driven programs (e.g., FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001), coordinating across security, legal, engineering, and external auditors to ensure timely certification, continuous compliance, and audit readiness.
- Own engagement with external stakeholders such as assessors, auditors, and compliance partners; manage evidence collection, remediation plans, and audit schedules.
- Establish and maintain compliance control frameworks, risk registers, and executive-level reporting for security, privacy, and regulatory initiatives.
- Lead program execution by managing scope, schedule, and budget across multiple engineering tracks.
- Identify and mitigate risks through structured risk management frameworks, contingency planning, and proactive issue resolution.
- Drive cross-functional alignment by partnering closely with engineering leads, product managers, architects, and business stakeholders.
- Ensure delivery excellence through rigorous tracking of milestones, dependencies, and program health metrics.
- Anticipate challenges by analyzing trends, identifying roadblocks early, and driving root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Develop and maintain program plans covering strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and mitigations.
- Facilitate prioritization discussions to ensure engineering efforts are aligned with business priorities and customer commitments.
- Promote efficiency and governance by enforcing processes, templates, and best practices across the engineering organization.
Skills & Experience You Bring to the Table
Experience
- 12–15 years of experience managing complex IT or SaaS engineering programs with full accountability for delivery outcomes.
Core Expertise
- Strong technical understanding of J2EE applications, cloud-based systems, and large-scale enterprise software.
- Mastery of project/program management methodologies, including scheduling, budgeting, scope control, and dependency management.
- End-to-end experience across the software development lifecycle (SDLC)—planning, initiation, design, build, testing, and release.
- Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies, having worked on successful Agile-driven releases.
- Proficiency with industry-standard tools and frameworks such as RAIDs, communication plans, and budget tracking.
- Ability to manage multiple programs in parallel while maintaining clarity, quality, and execution discipline.
Soft Skills
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
- Structured, analytical, and outcome-driven approach to problem solving.
- Adaptability to dynamic, fast-paced, high-growth environments.
Education
BE/BTech/MCA or equivalent degree from a UGC-accredited university.