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 with a consistent track record of growing responsibility, managing large Programs in particular
- 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/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