Technical Program Manager - GAPRemote

Title: Technical Program Manager - GAP

Location: Remote, US

Duration: 1-year assignment

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The Senior Technical Program Manager will drive key programs within the Global Technology portfolio. The candidate for this position will be seasoned in program management within the technology space with strong organizational change and communication skills and demonstrated experience working within an agile program model structure. This role requires a person who is strong at building relationships across functions to align and drive execution. This role requires a problem solver with an ability to prioritize multiple and competing priorities while driving a plan to execution.

This person will have substantial, demonstrated experience in an agile and program model structure. This role requires a candidate who is strong at building relationships across functions to align strategies and drive execution. This person will be a strategic problem solver with an ability to prioritize multiple and competing priorities while driving a plan to execution. This individual will play equal parts problem solver and doer, tackling the roles of strategist, operator, influencer and delivery specialist, and create an inclusive team environment that inspires a diversity of perspectives and bold ideas.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

You will be asked to lead programs and will be responsible for the end-to-end timely, on budget technology execution of the program, actively engaging key business and technology portfolio partners to ensure opportunities, risks and issues are understood and addressed. You will co-create and help develop product dashboards, portfolio reporting and analysis activities.

• Operates as a team-based servant leader who enables the team to self-organize, self-manage and deliver for the program at the highest level.
• Provides a Program Governance and manages the overall delivery operating model
• Manages overall Program Budget in alignment to scope
• Drives the program in the coordination of major feature releases and helps ensure ongoing delivery of value to customers where multiple teams are involved.
• Facilitates program level processes and execution, identifies and manages dependencies and risks, as well as escalates impediments.
• Coordinates and facilitates iterative program level planning ceremonies (such as Product Owner Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, Inspect and Adapt, Program Increment Planning, and System Demos).
• Manages and optimizes the flow of value via cross-organization collaboration.
• Proactively manages Program Risk through data-driven analytics and ongoing risk remediation efforts
• Drives the Product Owners, Product Managers and Agile teams to facilitate release planning preparedness.
• Provides transparency into the organizations backlog, providing visibility to work in flight, aligned to progress against defined scope
• Monitors and reports program health (i.e., progress of feature completion, program predictability) with the purpose to provide transparency on program delivery of value.
• Coaches and leads the program team in practicing Agile principles and leading practices, identify program/team training opportunities and solution/facilitate as needed.
• Coaches and mentors leadership in Lean/Agile best practices and mindset.
• Accountable for the overall program execution and delivery of work (schedule/capacity).

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

In this role you will work with a diverse, multi-functional set of team members and business partners to understand the needs of the program, develop and execute a program communications plan, apply program collaboration tools and manage the delivery of key technology solutions into market. You will work closely to coordinate with other Technology teams on dependencies across the portfolio.