HYBRID - Sr. IT Program Manager

Location; Newport Beach, CA

• Organize and facilitate agile activities and ceremonies for Technology Architecture team including daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint, and release planning, and product backlog refinement sessions.
• Collaborate closely with the lighthouse owner to manage the backlog. Effectively manage estimation and forecasting as applicable. Proactively identify and resolve impediments to team progress.
• Identify upstream and downstream dependencies for deliverables, coordinating delivery across delivery methodologies (agile, fixed deliverable contracts) and teams.
• Communicate with leaders across the organization to ensure transparency into delivery progress, challenges, and risks.
• Coordinate and collaborate across other Lighthouses, Tech Strategy workstreams, stakeholders, and vendors to ensure successful lighthouse and program outcomes.
• Utilize team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery, cadence) to identify areas of opportunity and work with team to continuously improve.
• Coach the team to improve collaboration and self-management, promoting healthy interactions both within the team and with external stakeholders.
• Represent the team at broader planning and coordination sessions.
• Develop and maintain lighthouse artifacts including charter, budget, schedule, status reports, change management plan and RAID log.
• Manage lighthouse budget, track expenses, facilitate deliverable acceptance, and ensure adherence to program financial guidelines.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Technical Program Manager experienced in IT architecture concepts (exposed to holistic Enterprise / Business / Data architecture solutions).
• Must have hands on project execution experience using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Leadership and good communication skills.
• Problem solving, consultative, and analytical abilities.
• Previous big 5 consulting firm experience is a plus.
• Financial services (Banking / Insurance) industry experience is preferred.

Platinum Resource Group is a professional level consulting firm, providing resources to Fortune 1000 client companies in the areas of technology, human resources, accounting, finance, business systems and supply chain, on a contract and interim basis. PRG has operations in Orange County, San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. As a W-2 employer we offer our consultants direct deposit bi-weekly payroll, health, dental, vision benefits, paid holidays, and referral bonuses.