Job description
Requirements:
Experience as a Program Manager or engineering manager in a Microservices, Cloud based digital transformation program.
Familiar with Agile methodology, sAFE, scrum framework
Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, challenges, and risks.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and exceptional emotional intelligence.
Ability to influence and motivate people across a broad variety of job functions through your relationships.
Strong organizational skills to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously, without losing sight of the highest priority items.
Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions.
Ability to understand complex concepts and make reasoned decisions objectively.
Job Responsibilities:
Designation: Senior Program Manager
Location: Noida
• Responsible to develop realistic project plans/schedule and track Team’s progress in meeting milestones and deliverables
• Responsible to own the project schedule, regularly maintain/update as necessary to meet changing needs and requirements
• Responsible to facilitate team meetings (Issue meeting agendas, timely meeting minutes and action items) in partnership with the client teams for decision-making, issues resolution, risk mitigation and team engagement
• Responsible to follow-up with action owners on open actions (tasks, document authorship, document approvals, etc) to drive to current schedule
• Responsible for escalating unexpected events impacting project schedule, budget & resources to management
• Responsible to keep project team well-informed, effectively communicating current status and changes (also facilitate and ensure communications to extended team members)
• Responsible to provide regular project updates to management on project status including risk mitigation plan
• Drive results proactively.
• Understand technical implementation at the architecture level and propose technical alternatives when necessary.
• Ask questions that clarify priorities and push the team to be highly effective.
• Develop broad domain and technical knowledge. This might include publishing a blog post or giving a talk.
• Help manage the cross-functional strategic planning and business planning process, leading conversations with key stakeholders to develop concepts for strategic initiatives, and developing those into detailed program / project plans (including roadmaps, funding planning, resource planning and hiring goals).
• Continuously improve and scale the organization. Implement continuous improvements to the engineering organization and the program management process.
• Share program/project process frameworks, tools, and best practices that can be adopted throughout the organization.
• Improve product development and delivery.
• Mentor project management skills within our engineering leadership team.