Program Manager Backfill (Addison, CLT, JC)

Description

Job Description: Program Manager

o The Program Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivery of defined deliverables which usually requires engagement from multiple Agile teams across multiple projects, programs and time zones.

o To be successful in this role, the candidate should be understanding the entire Agile Solution process, to learn, implement, and mature Lean-Agile principles and practices.

• Responsibilities:

o Coordinates and facilitates routines to support delivery -e.g. kick-offs, status reviews, stakeholder meetings, change controls, tollgates, etc.

o Plans and coordinates delivery and dependencies with across multiple teams.

o Facilitates dependency management/risk management /impediment removal for the defined deliverables.

o Ensuring compliance to standards and providing end-to- end visibility into the health of the project, program and associated deliverables.

o This role ensures execution and delivery meets the clients expectations in terms of the functionality, quality, timeline and cost. They facilitate sync points across multiple organizations to enable delivery

o Provide guidance about how to create and manage an intake process, healthy backlog, and how to facilitate valuable Agile ceremonies.

o Help teams to optimize implementation of Enterprise Agile standards and practices.

o Help to identify and resolve organizational impediments that impact team maturity and performance.

o Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across teams and with stakeholders, including external teams, business partners, and other Agile Release Trains/programs.

o Influence and guide business and technology leaders on changes that enable Agility.

o Governance Stakeholder Management - Contributes to artifacts needed for governance forums. Understands stakeholder expectations and creates regular updates to keep stakeholders informed.

o Facilitates dependency management/risk management /impediment removal for the defined deliverables.

o Supports resource planning.

Primary Skill: Agile Coach

Secondary Skill: Agile tools (Jira)

Required Qualifications

1. Jira

2. Tableau (or other reporting tools, including report development)

3. Enterprise program and project tool (ex: PPRT)

Desired Qualifications

1. Leadership Presence

2. Excellent presentation skills

3. Excel and PPT - advanced level

4. Work independent

5. Shows initiative