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Technical Manager jobs in Irvine, California draw strong demand from the technology, defense, and life sciences sectors, with openings concentrated in the Irvine Spectrum, Irvine Business Complex, and Great Park Neighborhoods. Employers hiring right now include Rivian, Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies, and Anduril. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Ready to lead the successful integration of MGM's financial systems into Amazon?
Join Amazon MGM Studios Tech as the single-threaded owner of a multi-year program that migrates MGM's financial systems and the significant balance-sheet exposure and annual P&L activity they carry, out of multiple legacy platforms and into a single consolidated Amazon architecture. The Principal Technical Program Manager is a leadership role where you'll set strategic technical direction and drive a transformative, cross-organizational initiative spanning multiple business workstreams, a large portfolio of new deal types, across several engineering organizations, and a broad set of cross-functional stakeholders, with a firm deadline to fully deprecate MGM's legacy ERP and complete the integration.
What You'll Do:
- Own and deliver an ambiguous, very large, and complex program that spans multiple organizations and technology domains, serving as the single-threaded owner for all program-level milestones across several bespoke business workstreams (including international and domestic theatrical distribution, third-party content licensing, development and production, streaming, and production facilities).
- Design and own the end-to-end data migration and cutover strategy that moves all financial data (master, transactional, and reference data) from legacy systems to the consolidated platform, spanning the full stack across business, middleware, financial automation, downstream financial infrastructure, and legacy systems to deprecate.
- Develop workback plans per workstream, sequence migrations to manage operational risk, and coordinate with the studio's legal entity restructure, owning the sequencing trade-offs of its circular dependency with the program's builds.
- Own the standardization and graduation framework — define deal-type primitives, establish system-of-record boundaries, enforce standard-versus-exception rules, and determine when each workstream is ready to transition from the program to BAU ownership.
- Identify risks and opportunities in technical strategies, system architectures, and engineering organizational structures, resolving cross-workstream dependencies and engineering capacity gaps.
- Influence and advise VP-level leadership across multiple Finance Technology and Studios Technology organizations — plus Finance, Accounting, Tax, and FinOps — on technical investment decisions, organizational alignment, and long-term platform strategy, making priority calls based on business value, partner readiness, and platform reuse.
- Author the program's strategic narratives, define program-level tenets, and run the operating cadence (monthly and quarterly business reviews with senior leadership, and ad-hoc executive escalations).
- Drive clarity in a highly ambiguous environment where business strategy, architectural approach, and even the problem definition may not yet exist.
What You Bring:
- 10+ years of technical program management experience, with a demonstrated track record of delivering very large, cross-organizational programs.
- Deep expertise in large-scale systems and platform architecture, and the ability to evaluate and influence architectural strategies across multiple engineering organizations.
- Executive-level communication and influence skills, with experience advising VP-level leaders and aligning competing priorities across organizational boundaries — without direct line authority.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes at scale.
- Experience making irreversible sequencing decisions in complex migrations and managing controllership and operational risk.
Why This Role Matters:
As the Principal TPM for this program, you won't just execute, you'll define how MGM's financial systems are successfully integrated into Amazon and rebuilt for the next decade. You'll make the irreversible calls: which businesses cut over first, when to freeze legacy systems, how to manage the circular dependency between the entity restructure and the program's builds, and which requirements to simplify without impacting customers. This is a role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, drives alignment across senior leaders with competing roadmaps, and delivers outsized, measurable business value and productivity impact.
This role reports to a Senior Manager of Software Development and regularly presents to VP-level leadership across the program's Steering Committee.
Join us in building the future of entertainment finance!
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 10+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience working at a TV Network, broadcaster, or an online streaming platform, specializing in digital video delivery or streaming media technologies
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, CA, Culver City
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $177,000.00 - $239,400.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
Ready to lead the successful integration of MGM's financial systems into Amazon?
Join Amazon MGM Studios Tech as the single-threaded owner of a multi-year program that migrates MGM's financial systems and the significant balance-sheet exposure and annual P&L activity they carry, out of multiple legacy platforms and into a single consolidated Amazon architecture. The Principal Technical Program Manager is a leadership role where you'll set strategic technical direction and drive a transformative, cross-organizational initiative spanning multiple business workstreams, a large portfolio of new deal types, across several engineering organizations, and a broad set of cross-functional stakeholders, with a firm deadline to fully deprecate MGM's legacy ERP and complete the integration.
What You'll Do:
- Own and deliver an ambiguous, very large, and complex program that spans multiple organizations and technology domains, serving as the single-threaded owner for all program-level milestones across several bespoke business workstreams (including international and domestic theatrical distribution, third-party content licensing, development and production, streaming, and production facilities).
- Design and own the end-to-end data migration and cutover strategy that moves all financial data (master, transactional, and reference data) from legacy systems to the consolidated platform, spanning the full stack across business, middleware, financial automation, downstream financial infrastructure, and legacy systems to deprecate.
- Develop workback plans per workstream, sequence migrations to manage operational risk, and coordinate with the studio's legal entity restructure, owning the sequencing trade-offs of its circular dependency with the program's builds.
- Own the standardization and graduation framework — define deal-type primitives, establish system-of-record boundaries, enforce standard-versus-exception rules, and determine when each workstream is ready to transition from the program to BAU ownership.
- Identify risks and opportunities in technical strategies, system architectures, and engineering organizational structures, resolving cross-workstream dependencies and engineering capacity gaps.
- Influence and advise VP-level leadership across multiple Finance Technology and Studios Technology organizations — plus Finance, Accounting, Tax, and FinOps — on technical investment decisions, organizational alignment, and long-term platform strategy, making priority calls based on business value, partner readiness, and platform reuse.
- Author the program's strategic narratives, define program-level tenets, and run the operating cadence (monthly and quarterly business reviews with senior leadership, and ad-hoc executive escalations).
- Drive clarity in a highly ambiguous environment where business strategy, architectural approach, and even the problem definition may not yet exist.
What You Bring:
- 10+ years of technical program management experience, with a demonstrated track record of delivering very large, cross-organizational programs.
- Deep expertise in large-scale systems and platform architecture, and the ability to evaluate and influence architectural strategies across multiple engineering organizations.
- Executive-level communication and influence skills, with experience advising VP-level leaders and aligning competing priorities across organizational boundaries — without direct line authority.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes at scale.
- Experience making irreversible sequencing decisions in complex migrations and managing controllership and operational risk.
Why This Role Matters:
As the Principal TPM for this program, you won't just execute, you'll define how MGM's financial systems are successfully integrated into Amazon and rebuilt for the next decade. You'll make the irreversible calls: which businesses cut over first, when to freeze legacy systems, how to manage the circular dependency between the entity restructure and the program's builds, and which requirements to simplify without impacting customers. This is a role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, drives alignment across senior leaders with competing roadmaps, and delivers outsized, measurable business value and productivity impact.
This role reports to a Senior Manager of Software Development and regularly presents to VP-level leadership across the program's Steering Committee.
Join us in building the future of entertainment finance!
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 10+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience working at a TV Network, broadcaster, or an online streaming platform, specializing in digital video delivery or streaming media technologies
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, CA, Culver City
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $177,000.00 - $239,400.00 USD annually
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Technical Manager Jobs in Irvine: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a technical manager job in Irvine?
Targeting Irvine's dominant sectors gives you the clearest path: technology services, medical devices, defense contracting, and semiconductor companies all hire technical managers regularly here. The Irvine Spectrum and Irvine Business Complex are where most openings cluster, so candidates familiar with Agile delivery, cross-functional engineering teams, or hardware product cycles stand out. Tailoring your resume to whichever vertical matches your background improves your chances considerably in this market.
Which companies hire technical managers in Irvine?
Irvine technical manager roles are posted by Rivian, Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies, and Anduril and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Irvine's employer mix leans heavily toward mid-size technology firms, defense contractors, and medical device companies, many of which maintain sizable engineering teams locally.
Are there remote technical manager jobs in Irvine?
Yes, though availability depends heavily on the role: technical managers overseeing on-site hardware, lab, or manufacturing operations are almost always in-office, while those leading software or analytics teams have far more flexibility. About 79% of technical manager openings tied to Irvine are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting broader patterns in the market. Software-focused and program management roles within Irvine's tech corridor tend to offer the most remote flexibility.
How can I get a technical manager job in Irvine with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in Irvine is moving up from a senior individual contributor role within one of the city's technology, defense, or life sciences companies, where internal promotion into team lead or engineering manager positions is common. Many Irvine employers, particularly mid-size semiconductor and software firms in the Irvine Spectrum, hire technical leads as a stepping stone. Demonstrating project ownership, cross-team coordination, and familiarity with the specific domain, whether hardware, software, or regulated medical devices, makes a strong case locally.
Which industries hire the most technical managers in Irvine?
Most technical manager openings in Irvine sit in Technology & Software, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Irvine's concentration of defense contractors, medical device manufacturers, and enterprise software companies creates sustained demand for technical managers who can lead specialized engineering teams in regulated or product-intensive environments.
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