Technical Program Manager

Contractor Role Technical Program Manager 1 positionJob Description Details

• Software product and solutions program roadmap creation, release schedule creation and life cycle management of existing and new products, solutions and programs.
• Scoping and delivering features and user story grooming and approval management.
• With a background in SW development, assess estimates, designs and validate effort with engineers and architects to create a realistic delivery schedule.
• Manage development pipeline with resource velocity management and KPI management.
• Responsible for prioritization of deliverables with project managers, analysts, engineers through Sprint planning, and maintaining sprint schedules for their given product releases.
• Work with engineers on technical, design, infrastructure aspects of the product/project.
• Facilitate communication within and between the development teams and support teams, QA and the product owners to collaboratively develop solutions.
• Manage issues to resolution, provide escalation management, make appropriate tradeoffs, and meet committed timelines.
• Identify risks and work with the team to mitigate.

• BE degree in technology or technology management related fields
• 15+ years of well-rounded experience in web /mobile software development field with Java / MS SQL /REST API / and related technologies.
• 7+ years of experience as hands on developer in modern web technologies with solid understanding of SW development concepts to be able to work closely with Architects and Engineers.
• 5+ years in Mobile product development or development management experience.
• Must have worked in medium to large enterprises with experience with software development to deployment lifecycle following dev ops protocols to release management protocols.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional Internet software/services projects/programs to successful completion.
• Ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner
• Ability to study the domain, convert vague discussions to user stories for validations. Must be able to influence and negotiate right answers without overbearing on others.
• Excellent analytical skills to ensure root causes are identified for issues.
• Experience with agile development management and solutions like GIT, JIRA, Rally and MS project or similar solutions.
• Experience with upper management reporting, presentation creation and curation, metrics measurements, SLA understanding and reporting, resolving issues within prescribed time.
• Can-do attitude with ability to wear multiple hats in a project team.
• Understands nuances of organizations and has excellent soft skills to understand the expectations and delivers to those expectations.
• Excellent written documentation skills and verbal presentation skills to quickly document concepts, plans, metrics and trends and overall project lifecycle content.
• Diligence meeting facilitation and follow through behavior is a must.
• Ability to commit and deliver, take accountability and empowerment with diligent focus on process.
• Fast and agile learner with learning mind-set.
• Design thinking mindset and continuous improvement thinking hat experience is a plus.
• Scrum master, product owner or program management certifications are a plus.
• Data analytics of experience with analytics domain is a plus.