AI Technical Program Manager

Role: AI Technical Program Manager

Location: Abu Dhabi

About the job you are considering Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Your Role

AI Factory is the product and technology arm dedicated to discovering, delivering, and scaling AI products and platforms. The mission is to build sovereign, secure, and scalable AI solutions that transform operations and services. We are pioneering the world’s first AI-native ecosystem, and Technical Program Managers (TPMs) play a critical role in ensuring delivery excellence across products, platforms, and complex integrations.

Your Skills and Experience

• Program and Project Delivery & Execution - Own the end-to-end lifecycle of multiple GenAI and AI/ML programs, from scoping through delivery and post-launch success - Define detailed project and program plans, work breakdown structures, and success metrics - Track milestones, dependencies, and resource allocation across functions (product, engineering, data, infra, design). - Drive execution to meet agreed delivery timelines, budget constraints, and quality standards.

• Technical Leadership & Support - Drive and collaborate on technical discussions with product, technology, and business teams on solution design, system architecture, APIs, and integration strategies - Provide structured technical trade-oQ analyses to support decision-making - Support AI implementation reviews, including model accuracy and performance, data readiness, and solution architecture - Ensure scalability and security requirements are addressed for government-wide deployments.

• Governance, Reporting & Tools - Establish and maintain governance structures for program oversight and accountability - Develop and standardize executive reporting templates (KPIs, budget utilization, program health, risk heat maps) - Create and maintain portfolio dashboards and trackers using PM tools (Jira, Confluence, Asana, MS Project) and ensure program documentation is complete, current, and accessible for stakeholders - Run regular program governance forums (e.g., weekly sprint reviews, monthly executive updates, quarterly portfolio reviews).

• Stakeholder Management & Communication - Develop and maintain a stakeholder communication matrix to ensure alignment across internal teams and external government partners - Lead program reviews and steering committee meetings with clear, concise updates - Balance competing stakeholder priorities, and drive consensus on scope, timelines, and trade-oQs - Support change management processes for scope modifications and program pivots.

• Risk, Compliance & Quality Assurance - Identify, track, and mitigate risks, including legacy system constraints, data quality, and model performance gaps - Proactively flag issues, propose mitigation
• strategies, and maintain risk heat maps - Monitor delivery quality and establish acceptance criteria for go/no-go decisions at each program phase.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• Relevant years of experience in technical program management, engineering, or product delivery.

• Proven track record of delivering GenAI and AI/ML systems, enterprise software, or cloud infrastructure projects.
• Hands-on experience with GenAI and AI/ML products and projects (LLMs, NLP, computer vision, data pipelines).
• Strong technical foundation to engage engineers on architecture, APIs, and deployment.
• Experience with program governance and reporting using PM tools (Jira, Confluence, Asana, MS Project, etc.).
• Strong communication and executive reporting skills.

Key Skills

• Figma Wireframing
• Experience in Agile Scrum
• Remove impediments
• Help to improve the team’s overall efficiency
• Experience in Data and AI projects
• Organize and lead scrum events
• Including sprint planning
• Daily scrum
• Scrum reviews
• Expert in implementing agile principles
• Fostering collaboration
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion. #GetTheFutureYouWant| www.capgemini.com