The Sponsor’s office provides a portfolio of search related services that advances the ability to find information rapidly and easily of data within the organization. The program supports search of the Sponsor’s intranet using variety of tools. The Sponsor requires a temporary full stack tiger team to develop a minimum viable product (MVP) for a new intranet search user interface. The Sponsor requires agile project management skills to manage the planning and execution of software development activities ensuring deliverables are provided on time, on budget, and meeting acceptance criteria. 
The IT Program Manager shall have the following work requirements:
• Comply with and participate in all applicable Lean Agile scrums, sprints and grooming sessions.
• Meet schedule and delivery commitments within budget.
• Identify and manage risks; recommend or take required corrective action; communicate risks and corrective actions effectively to the Sponsor and project team. 
• Consult and coordinate appropriately for problem resolution, task scheduling, new resource requirements, and task clarification.
• Coordinate program management activities including scheduling of meetings and preparation of demonstrations, briefings, and presentations.
• Create, maintain, and brief Project Management Review (PMR) slides for projects.
• Work in partnership with an integrated team of staff and contractors.
• Create, manage and update Jira tickets.
• Report sprint burn-up, top line charts, as well as product features and user stories.
• Work with and follow applicable change and configuration management process and tools. 
• Provide demonstrations during each Sprint Review to show ongoing progress, highlight team challenges or opportunities for process improvements, and obtain clarity on upcoming requirements.
Required skills:
• Demonstrated experience (recent) with the Lean Agile methodology and managing full lifecycle software development projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading an agile development team to include generating sprint plans.
• Demonstrated experience translating customer requirements into system requirements and being able to define MVIs, Features, and User Stories within the Lean Agile construct.
• Demonstrated experience working with project teams within the construct of the Lean Agile methodology to determine or plan work scope and level of effort to produce a t-shirt size for the associated work.
• Demonstrated experience managing top line charts, sprint burn-up charts and sprint goals.
• Demonstrated experience meeting schedule and delivery commitments within budget.
• Demonstrated experience using Jira for managing backlogs, portfolios, products and sprints.
• Demonstrated experience monitoring the progress of multiple concurrent and highly visible projects and requirements.
• Demonstrated experience with risk identification, management and mitigation.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating test resources and deployments with other groups.
• Demonstrated experience working with a work management system such as Jira for notifying system status and to seek approval for deployment to production.
Other skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not mandatory to perform the work, include:
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with Lucidworks Fusion 4 or higher, particularly the consumption of Fusion data retrieval APIs.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining constructive relationships among customers, stakeholders, technical teams, contractors and senior level staff.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining long-term and strategic objectives to ensure that end user requirements will be satisfied in future years. 
• Demonstrated experience tailoring complex technical ideas and concepts to be communicated to a range of audiences in briefing and reports