Senior Technical Program Manager

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Job description

Software Resources has an immediate job opportunity for a Senior Technical Program Manager with a major corporation in New York, NY.

Duration: 11 month(s)

Must have strong project management skills: This is Hybrid in New York and candidates must be on-site in the New York office 4 days a week and remote 1 day.

Must Haves:

Well-established in Technical Program Management, with 5+ years' experience in the software industry.

- Experience working with technical scrum teams, software development lifecycle delivery, and release management particularly with back-end services teams.

- Experience working with product and design and other stakeholders to understand requirements, prioritize initiatives, and engage with engineering teams to drive projects forward.

- Have in-depth experience executing Agile and other software development methodologies.

- Have mastered industry-standard project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence.

Description:

This Technical Program Manager role is a mid-level program position that will drive efficiency and coordination to support the Lifecycle Messaging platform services engineering UI squad as well as support cross functional initiatives.

Responsibilities:

- Provide technical program management support to the engineering teams and assist where needed in overall program coordination throughout the User Foundations organization.

- Manage technical teams, serve in scrum ceremonies, and provide release support as needed.

- Lead planning meetings, scrum ceremonies and cross functional coordination.

- Proactively work with product management and other project stakeholders to prioritize initiatives, define project scope and objectives, understand requirements, and effectively communicate requirements to engineering teams to drive projects forward.

- Work with engineering teams and leadership to establish processes that will ensure success on high priority business initiatives and improve efficiency.

- Manage program reporting for engineering efforts.

- Identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate, and communicate project risks to internal and external partners.

- Ensure Jira hygiene for all initiatives including the recording and tagging of tickets to the appropriate business initiatives and releases.

- Create and maintain Jira reports, dashboards, burndowns, and track velocity.

- Demonstrate technical adeptness to understand and effectively converse in the User Foundations domain.

- Establish and cultivate strong relationships with all stakeholders and leverage these to develop an understanding of their short-term and long-term goals and priorities to ensure organizational alignment.

- Manage schedules and capacity planning to ensure the team can deliver within project scope and duration alongside other existing priorities.

Basic Qualifications:

- Well-established in Technical Program Management, with 5+ years' experience in the software industry.

- Experience working with technical scrum teams, software development lifecycle delivery, and release management particularly with back-end services teams.

- Experience working with product and design and other stakeholders to understand requirements, prioritize initiatives, and engage with engineering teams to drive projects forward.

- Have in-depth experience executing Agile and other software development methodologies.

- Have mastered industry-standard project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence.

- Excel at working with project stakeholders to define project scope and objectives, and you are able to effectively communicate requirements to development teams.

- Excel in leading effective meetings, planning, documenting decisions and follow up.

- Identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate and communicate project risks to internal and external partners.

- Display initiative, take a proactive approach, and are able to start the conversation and guide other program leads in process development. Consistently evaluating processes and seeking for ways to improve at every iteration.

- Have developed essential soft skills including meeting leadership, communication, teamwork, collaboration, flexibility, problem solving, critical thinking, & conflict resolution.

- Learn quickly and enthusiastically, particularly about technical systems and issues.

Required Education:

BS degree in computer science or related exp.

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