Required Skills: Program Management | Retail - Stores and POS
Experience: 15 - 25 Years
Function: TECHNOLOGY
Apply By: 2026-11-22
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
Managed and lead enterprise level large Programs in retail, ecommerce, digital. Should have a development experience in early career which is essential to understand technicalities of the program and manage effectively.
Experience in leading in retail Store & Ecommerce, respective product development or modernization programs.
added advantage: Strong understanding of product data lifecycle: product onboarding, enrichment, attribution, taxonomy, PDP maintenance, UPC/SKU/WebID relationships, imagery/workflow, pricing, promotions, publishing, and downstream channel enablement.
Proven ability to convert business requirements into roadmap, MVP scope, release plan, backlog, milestones, dependencies, RAID, and executive status reporting.
Hands-on delivery governance across product owners, business SMEs, architects, UX, engineering, QE, data, integration, SRE, security, vendor/product teams, and offshore/onshore delivery teams.
Experience managing modernization programs involving cloud-native applications, APIs, event-driven architecture, batch-to-real-time transformation, data migration, and operational dashboards.
Strong Agile delivery background using Scrum/SAFe, Jira, Confluence, release planning, sprint ceremonies, dependency management, and stakeholder demos.
Ability to manage high ambiguity, run workshops, drive decisions, document assumptions, and align leadership across build-vs-buy, roadmap, cost, scope, risk, and product adoption decisions.
Considerable fluency in Java/Spring Boot, microservices, GCP/cloud, React/UI modernization, Kafka/Pub/Sub, APIs, data platforms, logging/monitoring, and DevSecOps concepts is required to manage technical stakeholders effectively.
Excellent executive communication, customer-facing presentation skills, and ability to produce concise leadership updates, action plans, and proposal inputs.
Roles & Responsibilities
Own end-to-end delivery management modernization roadmap, including discovery, requirement validation, planning, execution, governance, and rollout readiness.
Partner with business, product, architecture, engineering, UX, QA, data, integration, SRE, and security teams to translate functional needs into execution plans and measurable delivery outcomes.
Structure requirements into multi work streams as needed for the project delivery to manage the deliveries and governance.
Create and manage integrated program plans covering milestones, releases, dependencies, sprint execution, demos, UAT support, rollout, risks, issues, actions, and decision logs.
Drive product roadmap prioritization using complexity, business value, dependency, risk, and readiness criteria; support MVP definition and phased delivery sequencing.
Coordinate POCs and accelerators around AI-assisted development.
Track scope, effort, assumptions, change requests, and estimation inputs to support proposal development and governance reviews.
Ensure strong project hygiene: RAID management, weekly executive reporting, financial/resource tracking, release readiness, test readiness, stakeholder communications, and escalation management.
Facilitate workshops with business and technology SMEs to validate current-state process, future-state capability needs, and acceptance criteria.
Support change management, training readiness, adoption planning, documentation, and transition to steady-state operations.
TCS Employee Benefits Summary:
Discretionary Annual Incentive.
Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
Insurance Options: Aut& Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.