Technical Program Leader

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Lumentum Canada was awarded the 2022 National Capital Region’s Top Employers for the 6th consecutive year and the 2022 Career Directory Canada’s Best Employers for Recent Graduates for the 5th consecutive year.

Location : Ottawa, Ontario – On‑site with occasional travel

As a global, multi‑cultural innovative company, we are building a diverse and inclusive culture where differences are valued. We are unified in our commitment to live our Guiding Principles : Innovate, Engage, Deliver, Excel, and Win. Our differences make us stronger, more creative, and capable of delivering better results.

Why this role exists

Lumentum’s Ottawa design centre is scaling the next generation of Optical switches, optical channel monitors, and dynamic gain equalizers. The Technical Program Leader combines the delivery focus of an Engineering Program Manager with the system‑level ownership of a Design Authority, ensuring programs hit schedule and budget and the product architecture meets performance, reliability, and manufacturability targets.

What you’ll do

Program Management Leadership

• Lead amulti-disciplinary, cross‑functional team through concept, development, qualification, and production release of complex optical modules, owning Alpha / Beta deliveries and executive status reporting
• Develop, monitor, and control integrated master schedules, budgets, and risk registers; identify gaps and drive process improvements that question the status quo
• Coordinate vendor / partner interactions, prototyping, test & characterization activities, and communicate frequently with customers and product‑line management

Technical Design Authority

What You Bring

What Success Looks Like

Ready to drive both execution excellence and technical integrity for industry‑leading optical modules? Apply via the Lumentum careers portal today

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