Program Management

Role - Program Management

Experience Required - 8+ Years

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Project and Program Management skills and prior exp of working on large programs.

Roles & Responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Create, execute & track Delivery Plans for large programs

• Facilitate and lead technical conversations (e.g., relating to architectural approach and system design) and documents solutions.

• Drive team/release level processes demonstrating servant leadership coupled with domain knowledge and technical acumen.

• Facilitate Program level planning meetings and other ceremonies with delivery teams.

• Ensures dependency alignment across teams.

• Execute the Program Increment (PI) objectives to support the strategy, vision, and road map

• Ensure value is achieved by the team on behalf of end users.

• Work in partnership with Product Owners and the core and extended team to build and prioritize the product backlog.

• Support product owners by ensuring backlog refinement and readiness.

• Collaborate with other Technical Project Managers (TPM) to coordinate cross-team dependencies and other teams within the organization.

• Create metrics driven insights into the delivery and execution of the team using relevant team levelmetrics.

• Responsible for tracking iteration progress, actively adding to design discussions, issue resolution, and removing obstacles to ensure sprint/iteration commitments are met.

• Support and encourage innovation through continuous exploration.

• Drive Agile team objectives.

• Provide visibility into gaps, issues, risks, and opportunities across Agile teams.

• Coach teams to embrace the Technology SDLC process, Agile values, principles, and practices, and actively inspire teams to reflect and improve their delivery capacity

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in technology related subject area or equivalent experience required

• 10-15 years of experience in technical program or project management, overseeing large-scale, complex transformation programs

• Experience leading Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development teams to deliver technology solutions that meet customer expectations for timeliness and quality

• Experience in clarifying objectives, dealing with ambiguity/under-defined problems, advocating for simplification, and influencing

• Excellent oral and written skills; Ability to efficiently communicate across product, technology, and business partners

• Ability to deliver complex software iteratively and with quality

• PMP/PgMP/SAFe certification and experience with SDLC and Agile methodologies.

• Experience using Rally delivery management platform is required

• Deep understanding of Agile at Scale or iterative development processes, including quality and testing standard practices

• Well versed in Project Planning, Delivery & Release Management

• Merchant Product knowledge (Characteristics, Pricing & Submissions) and at least 5+ years of working as Program or Senior Project Manager at American Express [Mandatory]

Base Salary Range : $90,000 to $120,000 Per Annum

Discretionary Annual Incentive.

Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.

Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.

Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.

Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.

Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.

Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

Location

Phoenix, AZ

Job Function

TECHNOLOGY

Role

Project Manager

Job Id

414707

Desired Skills

Program Management

Salary Range

$90,000-$120,000 a year