Principal Agile Program Manager

Principal Agile Program Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration and Management
• 6+ years of Project Management, Agile or related experience
• Ability to communicate verbally
• Ability to communicate in written form

Responsibilities

• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management
• Ensure clear alignment of work against objective and key results/goals to empower product teams to deliver key results
• Leverages metrics to derive insights, continuously identify and drive improvement opportunities to fruition across the product family
• Be the champion of Agile delivery practices within a Product Family, supported by Discover Technology Academy (DTA)
• Partner with the Tech Anchors, Scrum Masters, SPO, PO’s and BTD’s to drive maturity of our CraftWorx practices within a product family, supported by DTA
• Train, mentor and coach their product family to mature product team practices in alignment with DTA playbooks
• Building community, foster inter-team collaboration with a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement across the Product Families
• Facilitate coordination and collaboration of product families/teams to maximize the flow of work within complex Products
• Optimize the flow of work from ideation to delivery within Product Family(s) and across multiple agile teams
• Dependency Management across product area/family/team to guide the org to deliver high quality value
• Removal of systemic impediments
• Foster adoption of the CraftWorx/single Agile Way of Working standards
• Have a broad experience successfully facilitating both small and large events
• Do not need much preparation to facilitate a successful event
• Toolbox consists of a few participatory decision making, collaborative, visual and kinesthetic facilitation techniques both for large and small groups
• Has a deep understanding of facilitation skills and is able to adapt their approach to a variety of situations and audiences
• Are able to be quickly pivot and be responsive to different situations that arise
• You integrate a variety of activities that drive inter- and intra-team collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8 years of Project Management, Agile or related experience
• Strong Jira experience
• Intermediate or Advanced experience with Tableau
• Expert in Scrum framework with advanced experience in scaling frameworks (ex: SAFe)
• Strong analytics experience synthesizing data into compelling messages for change to Product and Engineering stakeholders
• Expertise in creating software delivery plans: breaking down larger concepts into consumable work and working with engineering to size and sequence work for delivery
• Experience building continuous improvement roadmaps for area(s) supported
• Knowledge of Software Capitalization and R&E Tax Credit laws and how to apply them to building software
• Understands need for architectural runway in software development and proactively seeks ways to optimize work flowing through the system
• Strong experience engaging and partnering with a PMO governance body
• Ability to roll up sleeves and dig deep into the work; have intimate knowledge of- delivery in area supported
• Expert in identifying dependencies and risks between epics/features and knowing how to effectively document them and drive them to conclusion
• Excellent communication with ability to effectively influence partners and stakeholders
• Familiarity with release management processes
• Constantly keeps (regulatory) compliance top of mind in everything you do
• Understands DevOps mindset and seeks ways to improve the CICD delivery pipeline