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# Senior Technical Program Manager - Lab & Hardware

- **Company:** DDN, LLC
- **Location:** Raleigh, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Data Centers, AI Infrastructure, Data Management
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5c44ed53c06658cc

## About the Role

* 8-12 years of experience in technical program management, hardware program management, or lab/data center operations - including a lab move, consolidation, or facility transition
 * Demonstrated experience coordinating hardware build schedules and dependencies with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams
 * Strong cross-functional coordination skills; comfortable running a multi-workstream plan with competing priorities and hard deadlines
 * Experience tracking physical hardware assets/inventory at scale, including through relocation or reconciliation efforts
 * Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to synthesize status for engineering leadership
 * Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience, * Direct experience leading or supporting a lab consolidation, relocation, or data center/facility migration
 * Background in enterprise storage, networking, servers, or HPC/AI infrastructure hardware
 * PMP or equivalent program/project management certification

## Description

The Technical Program Manager, Lab & Hardware Tracking is the R&D-side point of coordination for DDN's lab consolidation initiative and for hardware build support across engineering programs - keeping consolidation moving without disrupting active R&D work, and making sure engineering has the builds, systems, and lab capacity it needs, when it needs them., Lab Consolidation Coordination

 * Coordinate the lab consolidation initiative end to end - sequencing site moves, equipment migration, and decommissioning across teams
 * Partner with facilities, IT, and hardware engineering on the consolidated lab layout (power, rack space, network) and migration timeline
 * Track milestones, dependencies, and risks; escalate blockers that threaten program timelines or R&D continuity

R&D Build Support

 * Serve as the R&D-side point of coordination for hardware build requests, ensuring engineering has the systems, prototypes, and test equipment it needs
 * Track build status and dependencies, proactively flagging risks to program milestones
 * Prioritize and sequence competing build and lab requests against program urgency and lab capacity


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